Re: OT: Feminism (Was: OT: reality (wasRe: Atlantean))

Quoting Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>:

> "Androgeny"? I don't know that word, and AHD doesn't recognize it either. It
> would, however, have to be an abstract based on words like
> _androgen_ "(hormone that) causes development of masculine characteristics",
> so it's "man" + "gen-" as in cause or origin.
No, I'm apparently wrong. Someone (Tim May?), whose mail I stupidly deleted,
informed us it refers to a weird phenomenon wherein an enbryo only has
paternal chromosomes due to dysfunction in the ovum's neucleus. In a sensible
world, the preceeding sentence wouldn't have had anything to do in a Germanic
language. Of course, in a such world, "androgeny" would have been connected
to "androgen" and "androgenic", so the sentence wouldn't have been needed at
all, act'ly.

                                                    Andreas