Show tim THE WORD FEMALE the use of this word for women is one of the most tul tui unpleasant pleasant and inexcusable of the common perversions of language it is not a briticism a although it is much more in vogue among british writers and anil speakers than among our own with u us s lady is the favorite euphemism for woman for every one of the r softer and more ambitious sex who Is ia dissatisfied with lier her social position posit ioni loni or uncertain of it seems to share mrs Quig leys dislike of being called a woman there is no lack jack of what i 1 called authoritative usage during three centuries for this misuse of female as I 1 may show should I 1 undertake the discussion of americanisms so called but this tills is one of those perversions which are justified not by example ample er however eminent Aco A eow cow or a aw or any slie she brute bruto is a female just as a woman is as a man is no more a male mala magathan ma lathan lethan than thau a bull bul I 1 is or a bo boar ar and no woman calls herself a male female f without thereby sharing her sex with all the brute erea drea creation tion eural kural abw yorker I 1 |