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Actors and Actresses

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suzied Mon 27-Nov-17 11:51:29

The diminutive “-ess” was seen to be infantilising women, and unnecessary.

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Juliette Mon 27-Nov-17 11:48:58

Weren’t teachers masters and mistresses back in the olden days when we were at school?

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MawBroon Mon 27-Nov-17 11:37:46

My iPad rightly rejected “teachress ” and “chefess “ without my noticing -sorry blush

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MawBroon Mon 27-Nov-17 11:36:11

A conductor of an orchestra is not called a “conductress” , a teacher a “teacher’s”, a chef a “chafes” a dentist a “dentess(?).or a doctor a “doctress” so why should we need a feminised form of job titles except as a throwback to the 19th and early 20th centuries when a female professional was akin to a fish on a bicycle.

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railman Mon 27-Nov-17 11:09:35

Why is it necessary to call an actress an actor today?

Are we in danger of becoming a magnolia species as well as a magnolia society.

Is it just another creeping Americanism? We already seem to use the word 'server' instead of waiter or waitress - and I though a server was a role within the christian church.

Must be my age, but I find it very alarming when a TV presenter announces say a a best supporting actor in a film, and a picture of an actress appears.

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