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Haggard Celine

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8. I think "actress" has been retired.

Reply to bucolic_frolic (Reply #4)

Sun Aug 7, 2022, 01:16 PM

Aug 2022

I've noticed over the last several years that they're using "actor" for both men and women. It seems that some people don't like having separate male and female versions of words in English. Don't know if some people find it to be offensive to women or what. It's like how some are saying Latinx these days instead of Latino or Latina. Some people seem to want to strip gender from the language.

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