'Today the words 'Boys' and 'Girls' are considered curses, cusses, profanities. Why else would one of Britain’s leading girls’ schools be banning the use of the term “head girl”?' | Writes Celia Walden
As I walked home last week, a piece of Victorian architecture stopped me in my tracks. It wasn’t the school’s glorious structure that caught my eye or the intricacy of the brickwork but the usual twin entrances above which were carved the words: “Boys” and “Girls.” Those words might as well have been spray-painted obscenities for the jolt they gave me, the question “how is that still allowed?” rising up unbidden. Because today those words are considered curses, cusses, profanities.
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