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Re: gender in English

From:Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...>
Date:Thursday, September 7, 2000, 13:06
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, andrew wrote:

> Am 09/06 21:42 Yoon Ha Lee yscrifef: > > > > <wry g> I hadn't known that. I tend to think of Death as female, but I > > can't tell you why. In Korean folklore the moon has two rabbits in it. > > =^p I'm not aware of any gender-associations for the rabbits, though. > > > The most popular concept of Death as a female currently would be Neil > Gaiman's Death of the Endless (Sandman and all that).
I've read those, and she's a *great* Death, but I thought of Death as a her before that. :-p
> After the separation of the first ancestors, in Maori Mythology, the god > Tane fashioned the first woman from sand. He made love to her and the
[snip] I've read that. :-) Or something like it, anyway; my mom picked up a book of Polynesian folk tales from a library discard pile (!) since she was on good terms with the librarian. Great stuff. YHL