Does anyone else find the noun "coed" patronizing?

Better take it up with Cat Fight, I should say, although I imagine she would have been the first to object to the word if she saw it as in the least patronising to women.

What’s an “ovester”?

(“Semester” is a word that comes from pretty much the same source as “trimester”: the “mester” there is actually cognate with “menses”, so it has no masculine connotation at all!)

I’d consider that derogatory, as well, except that “man” originally meant “person” and “wifman” meant female person.

I took a class on Asian art herstory during my first ovester.

Of course, a lot of these feminist language reformers have not studied any Latin or Greek. If they had, then they would reform such genuinely sexist words as “hysteria”. (Do men suffer from testeria?)

Reference from Legally Blonde.

That usage always requires me to think about what the heck they’re saying.

To me it’s schools that are co-ed, not people. And nowadays single-gender institutions are so much rarer that I’d only use it to speak about things like “my school used to be girls-only but went coed when I was in 3rd grade;” I don’t expect a school to tout its “co-ed-ness.”

Exactly. I’m amazed that anyone would use the term these days, such as in the OP’s linked thread title. Considering more women than ment go to college these days, I would think we could put the term to rest. I do find it rather insulting.

Gender and race no longer exist. Any reference to these anachronistic constructs displeases the hivemind.

It seems to me that they do. :slight_smile:

This is more popularly known as “testosterone poisoning”.

And I’ve seen plenty of feminist critiques of “hysteria” and “hysterical”. Although I couldn’t testify to exactly where.

Every day!!! Sometimes maybe even two or three times. Fortunately I’m ambidextrous.

In Spanish they say “unisex” as an adjective.

Maybe from me? I get bristly about the term being used to describe women who are rightly indignant or angry.