Last week, the daily Libération carried an editorial by feminist Emmanuèle Peyret that lashed out at the title mademoiselle. Derived from a medieval identifier of age and social standing that applied to both sexes, mademoiselle today, she argues, is a signal to men that a younger woman is either unwed and thus "pick-upable and bedable" or an "old maid who obviously hasn't seen any action since 1963."...
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