Re: Gender classes, which to use?

charles wrote:
> So if I had 20 or so categories what might they be,
> how best to categorize all of creation?
Here's the current revision of W.'s genders.
1. Rational (e.g., sentient) Female
2. Rational Male
3. Rational Epicene
4. "Feminine" Animals
5. "Masculine" Animals
6. Pseudo-Animate (fire, water, weather, life and death, emotions, etc., plants are
sometimes considered 6, sometimes 7)
7. Inanimate

They are divided into two huge classes, animate (1-6) and inanimate (7), or into two
other classes, rational (1-3), and irrational (4-7)

Feminine and masculine animals have to do with cultural beliefs - everyone has a
spirit-animal patron, certain animals are only associated with females (e.g., fish), and
others are only associated with males (e.g., migratory birds) - none that are associated
with both.