Re: OT: Gender Bending Moro

B. Garcia <madyaas@...> wrote:
> Language *can* of course _reflect_ gender views (which is where get
> get all sorts of chestnuts like "woman comes from womb + man,
> reflecting Anglo-Saxon's Patriarchal culture, saying that all womyn
> are, are men with wombs!" (yes, I HAVE heard someone say that -- a
> rather rabid, zealous feminist).
Heh.  Well, the more modern etymologies really arent that far off
 from that...
http://www.bartleby.com/61/roots/IE175.html
-- I'm sure she would have a field day with that.

Andreas wrote:
> While reflecting about the overwhelming amount of physical work inherent in
> making breakfast, a somewhat un-feministic possible explanation for the Moro
> patterning struck me - might the "girl" word originally have meant "child", and
> had its meaning restricted in the singular but not in the plural?
Wasn't "girl" in English itself originally a gender-neutral term?

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