Re: CHAT: RPGs (was Re: Wargs)

Jerome S. Colburn wrote:

> > > > wer, as in werhad, "masculinity,"
> > > > carries the gender.  But there is always an extent to which these
> > > > words become more generic, so you can speak of a female werwolf
> > > > when "wer" is replaced in later English by "man."
>
> Sort of like those human-shape robots in science fiction that are always
> called androids even when (like those made by Mr. Harcourt Fenton Mudd)
> they're gynecoid.
True!  But andro/anthro originally meant "human," and by extension of
course,
man.  So a misanthropist is a hater of humankind.  Not a hater of men,
and is
not an adequate parallel to misogynist.  Gyno, however, has always meant
woman, and never "mankind."  <G>   I think wer is interesting because it
does
contain a reference to male gender.  But you're right; I've tried on
occasion
to invoke the word gynoid or gynecoid.

Sally

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