Call Her by Her NameIn the beginning was the Word, and the Word was wrong. How would it fly if we all, including social-media influencers and other cultural leaders, conspired to call the penis the perineum? Krishnan rightly points out that actively suppressing language ought to be condemned, but that suppression and obsolescence are wholly different. If Smith Galer wants to speak Emilian, no one is standing in her way. But to refer to the fact that few people seem to want to speak it as “killing” it, well, that’s killing language by misuse.