Re: OT: sex/gender

Paul Bennett wrote at 2003-10-18 13:04:07 (-0400)

 > Fine. A worthy choice. However, I wasn't using either term
 > (originally) as contrastive to the other. My point was on the
 > multitude of birth sexes that occur fequently among the human
 > population. This degenerated into an argument over whether I used the
 > right word, which is so far off the topic I was trying to discuss as
 > to verge on the absurd.
 >
 >
Off the topic of the _thread_, yes, but almost on the the topic of the
_list_.


 | No man forgets his original trade: the rights of nations and of
 | kings sink into questions of grammar, if grammarians discuss them.
   -Dr. Samuel Johnson (1707 - 1784) [via a sig of B.P. Jonsson]