Re: Gender

Christophe Grandsire wrote:
>En réponse à Tristan Alexander McLeay <anstouh@...>:
>
> > Incidentally, I went to the zoo today and discovered that as far as
> > I'm
> > concerned, every animal, regardless of sex, is male in gender. It seems
> > a
> > very grandmother thing to do, though, as (IME) they tend to call all
> > animals male, even if they know for a fact that it's female.
> >
>
>Even cats? I've been taught that cats were considered female in gender,
>unless
>their sex was known...
On a tangential note, in Swedish _människa_ "human" is female by default.
For some possibly good reason, feminists never complain about that one.

                                                    Andreas

_________________________________________________________________
Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp

Reply