Having been distracted by all things to do with the summer holidays - Christmas cooking, long-distance driving, the beach, the Test cricket - I am behind with all things WP, but would like to add, belatedly, that I for one appreciate the way Sarah finds articles that need attention. It is educative (one of the reasons I am here), interesting and useful (sometimes I can help fix them).
Also would like to thank Anne for documenting so well the distinction between linguistic and biological/social gender. I am not a sociologist, but I suspect that efforts to draw social conclusions about contemporary biological/social gender relations based on data gleaned from linguistic conventions would be about as pointless, even if it was as appealing, as earlier efforts by phrenologists <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrenology>to determine personality types from head bumps. Whiteghost.ink On 31 December 2011 05:15, Ryan Kaldari <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
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