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The war against words

28 January 2023

9:00 AM

28 January 2023

9:00 AM

The University of Washington technology department has banned the word ‘housekeeping’. Not because the ‘problematic’ noun is overtly ist (ableist, sexist, racist, ageist…; by now, you must know the ist list). No, because it ‘feels gendered’. Would that they’d simply banned housekeeping. I hate scrubbing the shower.

This month, the University of Southern California’s School of Social Work proscribed the word ‘field’.

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