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 == Respect? == 

 Any industry in which using the non-existent singular neologism ""pant"" for a pair of trousers is not a capital crime, or at least punished by eternal banishment, is clearly decadent beyond repair. I am a writer, and respect words; fashion writing strikes me as like wine writing, only more so. Again: gender and cultural biases (I'm a straight male Quaker-hippie-redneck anarcho-socialist) may play a part here, and I'm aware of that.  |  "