Thursday, March 09, 2006

Buy a Good Dictionary

Seems that there is some confusion nowadays between gender and sex. Maybe the dumbing down of the public schools is responsible for this.

Gender refers to inanimate objects like cars and planes. German applies gender to books and all sorts of things. No matter where you stand on this planet, things have a gender. Animate objects have a sex. I have a sex, my wife has a sex, our son has a sex, you even have a sex.

A good dictionary will explain the difference between sex and gender. Once you understand the difference, you will start to see the foolishness of BS like this. For those of you who see the foolishness right away, I hope I added to your understanding of why it is foolish.

So have have to wonder, would one refer to a gender-neutral bathroom as "it"? German has 3 articles, der die & das, male female & neutral, English has only 1, the gender neutral 'the'. When we say "the bathroom" it's already gender-neutral. Makes you wonder what they are really up to, doesn't it?

As if we don't know.

THAT'S ALL FOLKS
That's it for that post, but sometimes, one things leads to another...

Mentioning unisex bathrooms reminds me of the shower scene in Starship Troopers. Good for gratuitious breasts, but not a position we'd want our daughters put in, because as empowered as the feminists can make them, there are certain truths brutal savages out there we need to protect them from, not strip them down and soap them up for.