From: utzoo!watmath!rvpalliende
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Title: Re: bakeress
Article-I.D.: watmath.2988
Posted: Sun Jul 11 21:31:58 1982
Received: Mon Jul 12 04:39:33 1982

If poetess and ambassadress aren't used anymore, the only reason
I see for waitress and actress being used is that people *like*
those words. Ambassador Shirley Temple (I think she shouldn't have lost her
famous name) Brown said that an "ambassadress" was what she wore.
If all actresses and waitresses objected at being called that way,
we wouldn't have those "sexist" words.