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Years ago the time had come for Ms.
Identifying the marital status of women with Miss. or Mrs. (but not that of men with Mr.), was unfair.
Caiytlin Genner's Vanity Fair cover story may indicate the time for Mx. has arrived.
Not only does Mx. not identify marital status, it does not identify gender or play into the withering idea that there are only two genders that everyone must belong to.
One authority on the English language, The Oxford Dictionary, is considering adding Mx..
SNIP from below link: " A representative of the Oxford University Press, which publishes a range of periodicals, including the OED, was contacted by someone asking whether Mx. might be added to the mix. The answer was yes, it is being considered by one of the publisher’s online lexicons, OxfordDictionaries.com."
What do you think?
Here's an interesting NY Times article on Mx..
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/style/me-myself-and-mx.html?_r=0
Identifying the marital status of women with Miss. or Mrs. (but not that of men with Mr.), was unfair.
Caiytlin Genner's Vanity Fair cover story may indicate the time for Mx. has arrived.
Not only does Mx. not identify marital status, it does not identify gender or play into the withering idea that there are only two genders that everyone must belong to.
One authority on the English language, The Oxford Dictionary, is considering adding Mx..
SNIP from below link: " A representative of the Oxford University Press, which publishes a range of periodicals, including the OED, was contacted by someone asking whether Mx. might be added to the mix. The answer was yes, it is being considered by one of the publisher’s online lexicons, OxfordDictionaries.com."
What do you think?
Here's an interesting NY Times article on Mx..
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/style/me-myself-and-mx.html?_r=0