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Peter Bart: Hollywood Writers, Like The Rest Of Us, Reshuffling Their Lexicons On Race And Sex

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Tensions in the town’s writers rooms never have been higher, not only for writers of entertainment shows but also for nonfiction practitioners.

The mood of their audience is prickly. Dialogue that once amused viewers today offends them.The upshot: Writers are busily reshuffling their lexicons, whether creating a film review, a documentary or a segment of The Sex Lives of College Girls (more on that later).

Personally, I’ve been readjusting my own lexicon and learning from the process.The problem: Those who favor dumping archaic expressions can’t always agree on the substitutes.To be specific, I am faithfully assimilating terms like “microaggression.” I now smoothly pronounce BIPOC (it’s “by-pock”).

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