1 posted on
02/07/2005 3:06:12 PM PST by
Lindykim
To: EdReform; ItsOurTimeNow; little jeremiah; scripter
2 posted on
02/07/2005 3:07:23 PM PST by
Lindykim
To: Lindykim
Actually, I am most disturbed that the author is employing the current use of the word "gender" when the appropriate word is "sex." There are but two sexes: male and female. "Gender" should be reserved for language use (e.g. French, where La is feminine gender, Le is masculine gender)
As H.W. Fowler wrote in his "Modern English Usage":
"gender...is a grammatical term only. To talk of persons...of the masculine or feminine g[ender], meaning of the male or female sex, is either a jocularity (permissible or not according to context) or a blunder."
Even the Microsoft dictionary admits that other uses are non-standard.
4 posted on
02/07/2005 3:24:41 PM PST by
sittnick
(There's no salvation in politics.)
To: Lindykim
Lewis Carrol was a mathematician and had quantum wormholes in mind in 'Alice Through the Looking Glass.'
5 posted on
02/07/2005 3:26:17 PM PST by
RightWhale
(Please correct if cosmic balance requires.)
To: Lindykim
Two points vanity credit for abjuring the barbaric orientate.
9 posted on
02/07/2005 4:45:17 PM PST by
headsonpikes
(Spirit of '76 bttt!)
To: Lindykim; DirtyHarryY2K
10 posted on
02/07/2005 7:45:52 PM PST by
EdReform
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11 posted on
02/07/2005 7:47:49 PM PST by
EdReform
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To: Lindykim; EdReform; ArGee; little jeremiah; GOPcapitalist; William Terrell; scripter; ...
Multiculturalism is a neo-Marxist theory, and it's the engine driving our social order to ruin. And it's from multiculturalism that political correctness and the insanity producing notion of 'orientation' arose. Multiculturalism has the disasterous consequence of dividing and categorizing mankind into classes by 'orientation', gender, economic status, religious belief, and ethnicity. Each of these classes are then locked in constant warfare over rights. Bingo. We have a winner.
At this moment, Republicans have the power to pull the plug on this engine of destruction.
DEFUND THE LEFT!!
To: Lindykim; dirty harry
<< We are humankind and we have but two genders, male and female. >>
PoMo babbling PC Rubbish.
We are MANKIND and we are but two SEXES, male and female.
Except for those pushing the deviate's barrow, "gender" applies only to the inanimate -- and usually to parts of language.
21 posted on
02/08/2005 5:00:22 PM PST by
Brian Allen
(I fly and can therefore be envious of no man -- Per Adua Ad Astra!)
To: Lindykim
Lovely essay, but for one defect: she was crushed under a pillar of feminist dogma.
"We are humankind and we have but two genders, male and female."
Mankind has no genders; only languages have genders, and English doesn't even have them. Mankind has two sexes.
23 posted on
02/08/2005 5:26:21 PM PST by
mrustow
("And when Moses saw the golden calf, he shouted out to the heavens, 'Jesus, Mary, and Joseph!'")
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