honorifics

//I hem-hawed under whether or not to put this here or in politics. If the topic shifts more politically I don't object to it being moved// Long story short. On Friday Joseph Epstein, a long-time political writer, wrote an opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal admonishing Jill Biden for...

In a story published last Wednesday the New York Times included a new honorific, Mx. ["mix"], in a story that quoted one Senia Hardwick, a bookshop employee who didn’t want to be assigned a gender by the newspaper. Link. The Washington Post has decided to permit employees to use 'they' to refer...