Minister x ? Ministress x?

cftranslate · Post by **cftranslate** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 6:55 pm

I find the word ministress a bit strange as read in, for example, Harry Potter?

How would most people refer to a woman minister?

Thanks

JuanTwoThree · Post by **JuanTwoThree** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 8:51 am

Minister.

Even in the dark, dim and distant days of Margaret Thatcher she was never called anything else except "Prime Minister". Well, in fact she was called a lot of other things but most people contained themselves when addressing her directly.

Macavity · Post by **Macavity** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 8:55 am

I think I would just say minister. Also in politics, etc. Think of Margaret Thatcher- she was the Minister for Education and later, the Prime Minister.

JuanTwoThree · Post by **JuanTwoThree** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 9:07 am

Great Minds think alike!

Macavity · Post by **Macavity** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 4:53 am

Me? No, just blogging along

zsanya · Post by **zsanya** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 10:40 am

Creating gender-discriminative-features for words which not yet have one can be sold as PC , or as feminist even, yet I can't help to feel, that creating the feminin version favors discrimination rather then bringing things in the direction of equality. But again, I come from a linguistic background where there is no gender distinction at all, so I might just have been born with an built-in prejudice.

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