Category talk:Actors

We really should have a page that discusses all these terms - actor/actress, author/authoress, aviator/aviatrix - and the various historical trends that lead to feminine versions of terms being created and then use of them changing over time, and the various feminist positions over time -- (a) claiming & inventing gendered terms to create visibility; (b) rejecting gendered variants as unnecessarily gendered; (c) reclaiming gendered variants as cute/kitsch/feminist history/separatist/etc.; (d) politically correct editorial avoidance of gender-specificity and leading us right back to problems of erasure .... and i started thinking about english but actually broadening it to be "gendering in language" would enable discussion of the different kinds of gendering in language. of course i don't have enough linguistics to write about that. in english we have joanna russ' the female man, to some extent, and gender-neutral pronoun movement; in french, louky bersianik and ... someone, who is the major french feminist theorist on this issue? blanking. have there been major SFnal treatments besides bersianik's? (and i read euguelionne in english so i grokked it mostly from footnotes, as i recall, but even that was >10 years ago.) ... --LQ 16:18, 20 March 2007 (PDT)