Getting back to the original idea of new terminology for the gender role. It occurred to me that musical instruments might work. Keeping the one syllable for the male role we have bass, drum, horn, harp, bow; for the female role - fiddle, guitar, banjo, trumpet, whistle. I like the idea of the fiddle and bow, or fiddle and bass dancing together. I wonder what mischief the horn and the banjo could create :)
Sent from my iPad On Jan 4, 2013, at 7:28 PM, callers-requ...@sharedweight.net wrote: > > > Message: 3 > Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2013 17:44:23 -0600 > From: Allen Ortep <ortep.al...@gmail.com> > To: call...@sharedweight.net > Subject: [Callers] Gender role names > Message-ID: > <cacsm0xnddpquadf_3jrkl2kvqowuzemufnatydw6tgp6w+a...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Considering the intense discussion this relatively straightforward topic > has provoked, the United States Congress' inability to reach consensus > should not surprise anyone > > The first letters of the Greek alphabet are alpha, beta, gamma, delta. > The first letters of the Hebrew alphabet are aleph, beit, gimel and dalet > > A pair of these should suffice. Possibilities abound > a) alphas and betas > b) betas (or bets) and gammas (the shortened version "bets," has a > single syllable, just like "men") > Those who need an explicitly analogy to the sex roles can > imagine boys and girls > c) beits and gimels > d) gims (monosyllabic shortening of gimel) and dalets > Those who need an explicitly analogy to the sex roles can > imagine guys and dolls > > > ------------------------------ > >
