ActorS|Talk

Also, I still see some girls here on the boys page.

In case you haven't noticed, women refer to themselves now as ActorS...I hope the page editor who deleted all the women, except Judith Dench, Ellen Burstein, Blythe Danner, and Sophia Loren and further messed up the alphabetizing will correct it. You might notice also that Sidney Poitier is a man, or so I always thought.

• A female who acts is an actress. Thus, when Hilary Swank won an AcademyAward, it was for Best Actress, not Best Actor Who Is Female. Please see GeorgeOrwell's 'Politics and the English Language' for more on manipulating thought by abusing language.

• Great essay, this, but doesn't have enough detail about the ways political hacks abuse language. That is a fascinating topic. I'm also not quite sure that it's the best way to describe the resistance to "actress."

Re: "actress"...yet another perfectly useful word forever tarred with the brush of political incorrectness. Female actpersons might refer to themselves as ActorS, but there are still many people who refer to them (quite respectfully) as ActresseS. It's what they are, isn't it? -- AnonymousCoward (ducking)