Nouvelles des ports

aquarelle marine - marine watercolor

Rafiots et compagnies

aquarelle marine cargo au mouillage - marine watercolor cargo ship at anchor

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aquarelle marine - marine watercolor


L'Intransigeant - February 19, 1925


Femininity is... Well, all that is dead.

Femininity

Ask your friends what this word means, they will answer you surprised by this question:

But... femininity is our charm, our attraction, the grace that takes. Femininity is the set of our qualities and our defects, our desires, our emotions. Femininity is all our external and hidden selves…

And the gentlemen will say:

Femininity is this kind of physical and moral perfume that seduces us, in you, it is the sweetness, the tenderness, the coquetry, it is your irresistible…

Well, all that is dead. There is no more charm, no more grace, no more this cuddling that we called femininity… The Academy rejected the word that it does not consider French… Which one will be able to replace it to express so well what we feel? What others feel?

Since usage consecrates certain expressions that are often very ugly or incomprehensible, why don't we leave our Femininity to ourselves?...

Madame Academy, you are not a woman...

MAGDA.


Indeed, the word "femininity" is not found in the 1935 edition, the eighth edition of the Academy's dictionary. Bunch of old croutons!


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