An alternative to "gentlemen"

[Alan H]

Gee, are we really getting angry and rude about receiving compliments?

Bill, if my sister in law was to compliment me on acting like a gentleman, I would be pleased. If one of the women or men in my department used the term approvingly, referring to me, I would consider it a compliment.

But on X Marks the Scot, the term seems to me to have gathered up a whole lot of connotations which have *Nothing* whatsoever to do with honorable, masculine, kind, and considerate behavior.

So in fact, were someone to refer to me, now as one of the "Gentlemen of X Marks the Scot", I would...yes....be annoyed by it.