Posted by
Andrews on Thursday, February 05, 2009 12:26:29 PM
In my last post, I mentioned that Firefox's spell checker denies that "blonde" is a proper word. Doing a bit of research, I stumbled upon a possible reason. It is that recent stupidity "
gender neutral language" once again. The same wonderful concept that refuses to use the word "actress", lest we know the sex of the person we are describing, also worries that "blonde" is unduly sexist. As
one page describes:
It even said that some consider the word "blonde" to be a sexist term and have dropped the "e" in all usages.
With all the attention that feminists pay to sex in all things, it shocks me that they hate words which indicate the sex. I mean, do they also hate "ram" and "ewe"? "Mare" and "stallion"? "Husband" and "wife"? Should they just be "sheep", "horse", and "spouse"?
It is senseless to me, this new theory. The old words existed for a reason. If I am casting
Othello, I want an
ACTRESS to play Desdemona. Why should I have to say "a female actor"?
THAT is what actress means! What is the point of making the language absolutely sex-neutral only to go back and add in sex descriptors?
Makes no sense to me. Then again, most academic PC movements make no sense to me.