Me Myself And Mx By Katherine Rosman Summary

The New York Time, published an article, written by Katherine Rosman called “Me, Myself and Mx.”. The article is about a new word that is being considered by one of the publishers of the online oxfordDictionaries.com. The word that is being considered is Mx. In which it will be used as a gender-neutral alternative to Ms. and Mr. In Britain, the word is already being utilized by a local bank because of customer’s request. Also, the British culture is more open than the United States with the idea of two genders. However, once Caitlyn Jenner appeared on the cover of Vanity Fair, people did not know how to identify Caitlyn, and that is when the ideas of using Mx. came into play. Although, the word Mx. has been known to come up throughout the years to represent single parents, unknown gender, and people in transition it is not yet a word in the Oxford Dictionary. When the idea of making Mx. a word in
In the case of the article, the United States and transgender cultures are changing, and people are becoming more excepting of the diversities among individuals. Therefore, Mx. should become a word that is regularly used to represent people that are transgender or in a transition of becoming the opposite sex. Andrews states, “The fact that it is relatively easy to create new words, and given the additional linguistic principle that says that whenever there is a need for a new word or a new form, a speech community will create one” (109). Which, the publisher of the online lexicons believes that there is a need for a word to represent people that are transgender or in transition, also due to the high level of positive response the article claims a number of individuals believe that Mx should become an official word that is in the Oxford