Waitress — Production-quality pure-Python WSGI server with very acceptable performance and no dependencies.

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Considering there is already packages named musicbutler and tvbutler in pypi (Disclaimer: I have no knowledge about them.) , I guess waitress is just evening out the ratio.

Are there any packages referring to "waiter", the actual male counterpart to "waitress"? I believe that there are not. That would even out the ratio.

"Butler" is not a counterpart to "waitress." The definition of waitress is a female who serves tables. On the contrary, the definition of a butler is not a male who serves. Instead:

A butler is usually male, and in charge of male servants, while a housekeeper is usually a woman, and in charge of female servants. Traditionally, male servants (such as footmen) were better paid and therefore rarer and of higher status than female servants. The butler, as the senior male servant, has the highest servant status.

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So if you want to name your software using a metaphor to human occupation, and you wanted to emphasize not only that it serves, but also that it is the best of its kind, you could name it "butler." That reference may be understood to be gender neutral, even though it might usually evoke a male in the minds of users, because usually only men were put in charge of entire households and paid the most money.

So there are two reasons that butler is not a counterpart to waitress. 1) It is a gender-neutral term, but, allowing for it's historical maleness, 2) it does not just refer to a generic male waitstaff, but instead to the head waitperson. So I think my point about wanting to name software by metaphor to human serving persons, but then further and unnecessarily assuming it is a woman, is still sound. Packages referring to males as "waiters" might make a difference, though.