I don’t agree. Women have been choosing the term “actor” instead of “actress” to describe themselves since the 1970s and 1980s as a direct result of the women’s movement and an awareness of gender bias in language. The screen actors guild also uses “actor” for both men and women, or “female actor” when marking a distinction between the two sexes. Only the academy awards still uses “actress”. The Los Angeles times says the word actress is dying out of conversation… there are so many articles about it. “Actor” is not misgendering her.
Nah. While the general public will often still say actor or actress, in the industry, actor is the preferred nomenclature now. It’s why the Oscar categories are “best male actor” and “best female actor” not actress.
Plus they misgender her in the title of the article… like what the actual fuck?
Where? Are you talking about the word “actor”? That’s used by both men and women.
Very infrequently, to the point that this can only have been intentional
I don’t agree. Women have been choosing the term “actor” instead of “actress” to describe themselves since the 1970s and 1980s as a direct result of the women’s movement and an awareness of gender bias in language. The screen actors guild also uses “actor” for both men and women, or “female actor” when marking a distinction between the two sexes. Only the academy awards still uses “actress”. The Los Angeles times says the word actress is dying out of conversation… there are so many articles about it. “Actor” is not misgendering her.
That’s fair, it just reads oddly when gender is the main crux of the controversy around her win
Valid point that you thought it was an intentional misgender given the context.
That website recently stopped using “actress”, which is considered sexist.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/smallville-actor-allison-mack-released-prison-early-rcna92592
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/-horror-dolores-roach-latina-actor-justina-machado-discusses-role-rcna92624
https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/tv/jacklyn-zeman-longtime-general-hospital-actor-dies-70-rcna83888
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/actress-anne-heche-critically-injured-los-angeles-crash-rcna41824 (an older article, note the revision that occurred from this url to the actual article).
Nah. While the general public will often still say actor or actress, in the industry, actor is the preferred nomenclature now. It’s why the Oscar categories are “best male actor” and “best female actor” not actress.
The Oscars are actually one of the holdouts, for now they are still using “best actress”.
Gotcha, makes sense. Maybe I’m just used to the local paper always using actor vs actress