[mista science]

To: rhema Use of the word gender is for Latin languages and plants--not several extra, imagined sexes. Linguistic activism to use it to refer to the two sexes of men and women is anti-family. 10 posted on 02/07/2005 3:57:20 PM PST by familyop ("Let us try" sounds better, don't you think? "Essayons" is so...Latin.)

See gender, and sex. OTOH, "When I use a word, it means exactly what I want it to mean—nothing more and nothing less." Humpty Dumpty.

[familyop]

Anti-family linguists do put improperly extended definitions in dictionaries for selfish reasons. Feminazis and homosexual linguists are notorious for that.

But they are not right or correct in doing so, simply to suit their pathologies.

Notice the entries, "homophobe" and "homophobia" in that dictionary, for example. It's there, because many people who agree with linguistic activism and like to play in feces wanted a new personal insult against healthy people who love real families.