Village Person kicks irony's twitching corpse

Washington Post: "Felipe Rose, the Indian dude from the singing group the Village People, presented the National Museum of the American Indian with a framed, gold 45-rpm single of the disco group's 1978 megahit 'Y.M.C.A.' on Wednesday afternoon.

"Rose, who is part Lakota Sioux, missed the big opening of the museum last September. He said he really wanted to go, but the Village People were on tour with Cher."

As it happens, Mr. Rose is quite credibly Indian, and when you think about what he achieved as a musician, his gift is generous and appropriate. I'm still laughing, though. Partly at the fact that it is now acceptable in the Washington Post to describe someone as "the Indian dude. . ." I'd like to check their style guidelines to figure out what the equivalent word is for a female. . . is it chick? As in, "Susan Sontag, the chick who wrote 'Notes on Camp', is dead at 71."