On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 11:34:52PM +0000, Lisi wrote: > On Saturday 24 March 2012 15:09:57 Ken Heard wrote: > > Nouns and adjectives have gender, but people have sex. > > The latest strident feminist PC requires "gender". (It came up recently on > Debian Women.) I share your objection. But then I never burnt my bra, I > just got on and did a male (masculine?!) job. And I am most emphatically not > a "chair". I am not a piece of furniture.
"You may address the chair." has always sounded rather odd. -- "Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet." -- Napoleon Bonaparte -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120330021844.GA3778@tal
