What is another word for the fair sex?

Pronunciation: [ðə fˈe͡ə sˈɛks] (IPA)

The term "the fair sex" has long been used to refer to women, but it is increasingly considered outdated and even offensive. Instead, there are many more appropriate and respectful synonyms that can be used to refer to women. Some examples include "women," "ladies," "females," "girls," "women and girls," and "womenfolk." Each of these terms recognizes women as individuals and also avoids connotations of objectification or sexist assumptions about their characteristics. Using more accurate and respectful language is an important step towards achieving greater gender equality and promoting a more inclusive society.

What are the hypernyms for The fair sex?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Famous quotes with The fair sex

  • The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.
    Charles Baudelaire
  • Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
    Karl Marx
  • Lincoln's stature and strength, his intelligence and ambition - in short, all the elements which gave him popularity among men in New Salem, rendered him equally attractive to the fair sex of that village.
    John George Nicolay
  • Stow informs us, that the young Londoners, on holidays, after the evening prayer, were permitted to exercise themselves with their wasters and bucklers before their masters' doors…The bear-gardens were the usual places appropriated by the masters of defence for public trials of skill. These exhibitions were outrageous to humanity, and only fitted for the amusement of ferocious minds; it is therefore astonishing that they should have been frequented by females; for, who could imagine that the slicing of the flesh from a man's cheek, the scarifying of his arms, or laying the calves of his legs upon his heels, were spectacles calculated to delight the fair sex, or sufficiently attractive to command their presence.
    Joseph Strutt
  • In some great boarding schools for the fair sex, it is customary, upon the introduction of a novice, for the scholars to receive her with much pretended solemnity, and decorate a throne in which she is to be installed, in order to hear a set speech, addressed to her by one of the young ladies in the name of the rest. The throne is wide enough for three persons to sit conveniently, and is made with two stools, having a tub nearly filled with water between them, and the whole is covered by a counterpane or blanket, ornamented with ribands and other trifling fineries, and drawn very tightly over the two stools, upon each of which a lady is seated to keep the blanket from giving way when the new scholar takes her place; and these are called her maids of honour. The speech consists of high-flown compliments calculated to flatter the vanity of the stranger; and as soon as it is concluded, the maids of honour rising suddenly together, the counterpane of course gives way, and poor miss is unexpectedly immerged in the water.
    Joseph Strutt

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