Re: Gender (was: Homosexuality and gender identity)

Roger Mills scripsit:

> What do you call a poet who is female?  Poetess is archaic, lady poet
> trivializes, woman poet is OK but awkward-- and why specify it anyway?
Yeah.  I forget who said this, but it's compelling:  "When I hear the phrase
'woman lawyer', I first think of Marvin Mitchelson."

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