Word: aviatrixes
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...that, in every recent year divisible by five, Swank has won the Academy Award for Best Actress: in 2000 for Boys Don,t Cry and 2005 for Million Dollar Baby. Numerology suggested another Swank statuette in 2010. But who, exactly, was supposed to pay to see her as The Aviatrix? Earhart's plane was lost in the mid-Pacific 72 years ago, making octogenarians the target demographic. Amelia didn't premiere at the Venice or Toronto film festivals, as many Oscar hopefuls do; and it earned a scathing 17% score from the Rotten Tomatoes survey of critics, who might otherwise...
...mother/daughter thing. Their mothers called themselves feminists, so the daughters, in an attempt to distinguish themselves, have to call themselves something else. I think it's mostly terminology, that any terminology associated with women sooner or later becomes degraded. An executrix is laughable, an executor is not. An aviatrix is not as strong as an aviator. It has to do with the sexism that is in our society and often is unconscious. (See pictures of the 20th century's greatest romances...