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Re: male p.o.v. songs

From: aurs01!aurxc3!whitcomb@mcnc.org (Jonathan Whitcomb)
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1991 06:30:58 -0700
Subject: Re: male p.o.v. songs
To: mcnc.uucp!aurs01!Love-Hounds%wiretap.Spies.COM@mcnc.org

boris%planecrash.Berkeley.EDU@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Boris Chen) writes:

>jeffy@lewhoosh.umd.EDU (Jeffrey C. Burka) writes:
>Jeff says:
>>I quote myself:  _murderer_
>>
>>As opposed to murderess, the *feminine* form of the noun.
>
>When was the last time you heard "murderess"?

Elvis Costello used it in "American Without Tears" from "King of America".

-Jonathan