A Change.org petition calling on the Oxford University Press (OUP) to change the "sexist" terms for women in some of its reference works has gathered over tens of thousands of support online. The petition, "Change Oxford Dictionary's Sexist Definition of 'Woman,'" was created by Maria Beatrice Giovanardi and has over 31,000 signatures as of this writing. Gionavardi launched the petition last June, pointing out words that the Oxford's English Dictionary listed as synonyms for "woman," Among the words she noted were b*tch, besom, baggage, wench, frail, piece and mare, among many others. "These are the words which the Oxford's English Dictionary online tells us mean the same as 'woman.'...
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