On 12/30/11 3:58 AM, Ms. Anne Frazer wrote: > ...it's quite a mystery how the nouns are allocated a specific gender, > and excuse this aside but I used to think on this and wonder why all > the strong, positive, and creative words seemed to be assigned the > grammatical masculine gender.
I'll let my favorite satirist Valerie Solanas answer this one: "Being an incomplete female, the male spends his life attempting to complete himself, to become female. He attempts to do this by constantly seeking out, fraternizing with and trying to live through and fuse with the female, and by claiming as his own all female characteristics—emotional strength and independence, forcefulness, dynamism, decisiveness, coolness, objectivity, vitality, intensity, depth of character, grooviness, etc.—and projecting onto women all male traits—vanity, frivolity, triviality, weakness, etc." Ryan Kaldari _______________________________________________ Gendergap mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
