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feminism vs. "his"
{{quotebox|[[Host]] is unmarked, but hostess is morphologically marked for femaleness. ... in the pair [[horse]]/[[mare]], horse is the more general, unmarked term, while mare is marked for femaleness. In the pair [[cow]]/bull, cow is unmarked, while bull is marked for maleness. - Tom McArthur, Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language [http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O29-MARKEDANDUNMARKEDTERMS.html] }}
{{quotebox|[[Host]] is unmarked, but hostess is morphologically marked for femaleness. ... in the pair [[horse]]/[[mare]], horse is the more general, unmarked term, while mare is marked for femaleness. In the pair [[cow]]/bull, cow is unmarked, while bull is marked for maleness. - Tom McArthur, Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language [http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O29-MARKEDANDUNMARKEDTERMS.html] }}
==His and hers==
In traditional English grammar, ''he'' and ''his'' were considered to apply to male and female equally. For example, "Everyone is entitled to his opinion." In the 1960s and 1970s, Western [[feminists]] began to challenge this usage, claiming that readers or listeners would fail to recognize the term's inclusiveness.
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