Feminised words

[Davros]

I've been pondering this. Why are we no longer supposed to call female acting people actresses or female funny people comediennes but stating pronouns is now possibly mainstream? It seems somewhat opposed ideas

It really irritates me when people use ‘they’ for a single person on MN.

I always want to ask if the person they’re referring to is non-binary. Although it’s quite funny when they slip a he or she in by mistake without noticing, then return to the theying.

I wonder if we will be getting rid of Princess anytime soon 😹
On the one hand, we are being encouraged to drop m/f identifiers, mostly for words for professions/jobs and on the other hand, we are being encouraged to make a point of identifying m/f/other, even if it doesn't reflect reality

Queen Elizabeth I - the OG good queen Bess - referred to herself as a "Prince" - with very good reason.

Also, "the heart and stomach of a King"!

Has any idiot tried to trans her yet?

I take it you are new here ? 😀

Queen Christina of Sweden was given the title of "King" by the Swedish diet. She's such an interesting person but now has been 'queered.' Ugh.
What irks me is that the Royal Family changed from male primogeniture to include girls but the peerage has not.

The Anglo-Saxons our Norman overlords displaced also didn't use primogeniture.

And of course Egyptian rulers always "identified as" 😀men, regardless of the biological reality.

There was a fascinating documentary "She Wolves of England" on BBC4 (so hidden from the masses ,,,) a while back.

Personally hate it when women refers to themselves as heroes. Heroine is far better in my view.

I see this has already been addressed.

Oh thanks for the recommendation, I'll look for She Wolves.
I didn't know that about the Anglo-Saxons are there any famous women to read about? I'd love to learn more.

unmemorableusername · 24/10/2024 12:50

Whereas a waiter/ waitress does the same job.

My daughter's friend's mam serves food in a Morrisons cafe and a few years back we had a bit of a conversation. It was regarding their manager wanting to go "gender" neutral - She said, I'm not a waiter, I'm not wait staff, I'm a fucking waitress."

Not totally on message but several years ago I found myself in a restaurant in Boston MA. The waiter told me that he would be my servant for the evening (which kind of creeped me out) and then went on to tell me that his name was Chuck (or some other name) and asked me what my name was. I suggested that we would get on fine if he addressed me as Madam. He seemed to be a little disappointed.

@SinnerBoy love your friend's mam