Where? Are you talking about the word “actor”? That’s used by both men and women.
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/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).
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
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.
