To: SunkenCiv
The articles title should have been, "An epic battle on Homer's sex?"
6 posted on
07/02/2006 7:56:00 PM PDT by
ASA Vet
(3.03)
To: ASA Vet
"The articles title should have been, "An epic battle on Homer's sex?"You and I may be the only ones who still think so but "Gender" refers to grammar and synax and not to people. The quality under discussion is Homer's sex
51 posted on
07/03/2006 9:56:28 AM PDT by
muir_redwoods
(Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopechne is walking around free)
To: ASA Vet; muir_redwoods
Strictly speaking, "gender" is a grammatical category, it is an attribute of words, while "sex" is a biological category and is an attribute of living things. Widespread (mis)use of the word "sex" to mean sexual relations (except, never meaning labial-gential contact between a Democratic President and an intern, the President on the receiving end) has made some people squeamish. I find this bowdlerization in our modern with-it progressive times most amusing.
66 posted on
07/21/2006 7:04:30 AM PDT by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(NYT Headline: 'Protocols of the Learned Elders of CBS: Fake But Accurate, Experts Say.')
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