Au Revoir, Mademoiselle


French women, at least 2,300 of them so far, are petitioning the French government to officially dump Mademoiselle, according to a news story up on Ms. Magazine. The moniker, for unmarried women, was used to distinguish the young, unmarried thing from the married Madame. It's an archiac, quaint distinction, between married and unmarried, which American women got rid of back in 1972 with the founding of Ms. magazine. Although some, like the New York Times, were a tad slow to pick up on the term.

Liberte. Egalite. Sororite.