Today's TRMS
On today's show David Bender, host of Politically Direct and Rachel's political guru, will be calling in from Netroots Nation in Austin, Texas to let us know what's happening at the left blog world's prom. And then Iraq expert Juan Cole stops by to talk about whether or not Bush has really agreed to a timetable for troop withdrawals in Iraq.
- July 18, 2008








Excellent post.
I didn't know about the forced change from suffragist to suffragette, and the comparison between "women's lib" and "black lib" is good.
Here's another one: "undergraduettes." Oh wait--you did mention that!
Probably also from Dorothy Sayers I remembered "courgettes," but Wikipedia says that's a vegetable.
The German trend is also to try to encourage people to say e.g. "male AND female [every possible profession]," because German women say they're tired of hearing themselves be left out. To my mind it's a step in the wrong direction. That's probably because I'm from the U.S.; but who wants to constantly remind people of the difference? In a hostile environment, that works out to women's detriment. Soon there might be a slightly negative feeling associated by Germans to "female [every possible profession]" that's not associated with "male [every possible profession]" or even just "[profession]." As Simone de Beauvoir pointed out, men are humans and women are women.
In conclusion, sank 'eaven for leetle girls.
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By Buxtehude_BarbarossaJuly 21, 2008 - 2:33pm