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Masculists - aren't they women who emasculate their mates? Sort of black widow humans? I know a few of that kind ... Hominist - sounds like someone who writes homilies as hymns. And, finally, in reply to Helen's assertion that a woman gives up life expectancy for every year she stays married, I couldn't agree more. Except that here in Zild we call it "killing our wives with kindness"!  Even though the expression itself belongs in another thread ... 
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This might mean that the proper study of virists is virology, but that make problems, since we already have viruses (viri?) to complicate things.
The study of viruses should be iology (virus and Gk ios both being from PIE *wisos 'poison').
The study of men is andrology. The study of virists, if by that you mean to study virists, would be viristology, whatever a virist is.
If virist involves vir 'man' then its feminine counterpart could be muliebrist.
Endless possibilities.
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If virist involves vir 'man' then its feminine counterpart could be muliebristHence the expression "stubborn as a mulie". Explains everything. 
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Getting back to Tsuwm, and his worthless word of the day
worthless anyday in MHO, are words like
Hostest (why not just host?)
waitress ( ~waiter or server)
aviatrix ( ~aviator/pilot/flyer)
actress (~actor/perormer)
stewardess ( ~steward/attendant)
blonde ( ~blond)
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In reply to:
worthless anyday in MHO, are words like
Hostess (why not just host?)
waitress ( ~waiter or server)
aviatrix ( ~aviator/pilot/flyer)
actress (~actor/performer)
stewardess ( ~steward/attendant)
Which brings me back to a question I asked earlier. If you object to gender based distinctions, why do you yourself make a distinction between a milliner and a hatter? The difference you note is gender-based. You said that the only difference between a milliner and a hatter was the gender of the person for whom the hat was being made. Isn't that just as arbitrary a distinction as any of those listed above? I'm not a mother yet, but it struck me while reading your list that mother and father should both be eliminated, if your rule is applied. We have a non-gender specific alternative, parent. Would you say, "Don't call me a mother, I'm a parent?"
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nemo stated: I'm not a mother yet, but it struck me while reading your list that mother and father should both be eliminated, if your rule is applied. We have a non-gender specific alternative, parent.
Sorry, nemo, I'm not with you on this one. I agree that helen's hatter/milliner distinction is inconsistent with, indeed seems to cotradict, her aversion to the practice of distinguishing between people performing the same action simply on the basis of sex. However, mother and father are not the same function, so it seems to me that the diffference could be said to relate to job description rather than the sex of the practitioner.
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Among other suggestions, the child of Zeus offers as a substitute for waitress ( ~waiter or server)
Round here the standard term is waitron unit.
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Thanks Max, yes, Mother and Father are different-- and the discussion about Hatter/Milliner I was try to ascertains if there was a difference-- there is a difference between a (black) smith and an iron worker-- and between a black smith and a farrier-- and there might be a difference between a hatter/ milliner. Men's hat where made from leather/skins/fur (beaver) woman's hats felt.. so a man could be a milliner-- (that is he could make hats for women, and a hatter could be a woman-- ) but i don't know enough about the trades/skills..(i do know the difference between a blacksmith/ironworker/farrier.)
I would readily recognize the distinctions between a gynecologist and a urologist. A woman might have an occasion to go to a urologist, but the number of men who would require the help of a gynecologist would be infinitely smaller.
but often the only difference between a waiter/ waitress is the waitress earns less money.... while sometime being requires to do the same work as the waiter except she gets (has) to do it in high heels!
Wife and husband might be replacable-- with spouse. Or disposable, as the need might be......
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>Or disposable, as the need might be......
Interesting concept - I was wondering if there were any eligible batchelorpersons out there.
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Interesting concept - I was wondering if there were any eligible batchelorpersons out there.I believe I can postulate without any fear of valid contradiction that, yes Jo, there is an eligible bachelorperson out there. The question is (a) for whom, and (b) if the search is for you, then kindly fill out the attached 1,287-question survey and forward US$12,000 to the address below. 
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