Ross Thompson

@Nayuki Why not the 787? Fuselage composition, or active blocking, or something else?

@Chronocidal Probably as soon as there are enough non-binary actors that you'd have more than one person up for an award in that category. And they'd be right.

@Separatrix Sure, and if only that prefix or suffix positioned men as the default and women as needing to be called out as unusual or different, that would just be great. But really, why do we need to distinguish male and female actors any more than we need a special word to distinguish female doctors, or female librarians? And don't say it's because the roles they can play are so wildly different, because we don't need a word to distinguish black or asian actors from white actors, even though Denzel Washington is as likely to be cast as King Henry VIII as Cate Blanchett is as Bob Dylan.

@AlexP For a couple of years, the MTV Movie and TV Awards used "actor" for both male and female actors, but they've since replaced that with "performer". The Screen Actor Guild Awards give awards to "male actors" and "female actors".

@Spitemaster No, it's not a reason of itself for "actress" to fade away; but it's in the process of fading away for other reasons, and it is a reason not to insist on the distinction purely because it used to exist.

@AlexP Usage is shifting on that, as it did on the now-archaic terms "poetess", "authoress", "aviatrix", "heiress", "songstress" and "murderess". There's no reason why "actress" should survive when those don't.

We now have many examples of economies that are far bigger than the USSR was at its height and that are tightly centrally controlled (Amazon, Microsoft, Disney, etc). They seem to be doing fine, in general. By contrast, the ones that leave financial control up to internal markets (Sears, most famously) crash and burn very quickly. There's probably a message in there somewhere.

@DavidRice If your income is too low for you to pay any taxes, then a tax credit it's going to benefit you; you're describing a system explicitly tailored to benefit the wealthy and pretending it's "universal".