by John M. Crisp Pronouns came up in conversation recently. Through circumstances largely beyond my control, I was at dinner a few nights ago with six or seven strangers. It wasn’t hard to read the room. They were all upper middle class, all white and all “seasoned,” ...
Last time most of us looked, “bodies with vaginas” could be more simply described as women. Same went for “pregnant people” and “birthing people.” But transgender activists are insisting that the word “woman” be replaced with these more complicated descriptions. The ...
by Steven Roberts In 1986, The New York Times announced it would begin using the honorific “Ms.” “Until now,” the Times explained in an editor’s note, “’Ms.’ had not been used because of the belief that it had not passed sufficiently into the language to be accepted ...