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In discussing the third edition of Merriam-Webster's New International Dictionary (MW-III), Green describes one of its main advances as a general move away from America's traditional prescriptive lexicography, towards a more descriptive, British style.
Unfortunately, that leads to inconsistencies, for dictionaries report what they find and are not intended as sources of prescriptive decisions.
One could argue, charitably, that the movie is meant to be prescriptive, that Barker intends for us to regard the ways in which his subjects delude themselves and thereby learn to see through our own self-delusions.
Bodine analyzes the ways in which (male) grammarians (both descriptive and prescriptive) have since the seventeenth century sought to establish he as the sex-indefinite pronoun despite evidence that actual usage consistently contradicts that.
Generally anti-elitist and anti-authoritarian by declaration, feminist alterers of language find themselves corralled with prescriptive grammarians and linguists.