Word: asay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...want to talk about my sophomore tutorial which was a case study in bad gender dynamics," said Bridget C. Asay '92, the former treasurer of the Radcliffe Union of Students. "If they had given us weapons there would have been no one left...
...even in academic writing, gender-oriented linguistic reforms are beginning to appear more frequently. Asay and McDonald say that they now use "she" as an indefinite pronoun in their papers...
Advocates of the "gender-inclusive" trend say it is not confined to feminists and their supporters, although they acknowledge that they are a small minority. Most people aren't bothered by the change, Asay says, but a few are threatened...
...When you say something like changing the way you spell women for a political reason, people get threatened for reasons that have nothing to do with grammar," says Asay. "It's a much deeper problem than that...
When labelled groups select a term to describe themselves, they are asserting a kind of self-control, Asay says. "That's challenging the power structure...