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Re: Yer Ugly Mug Pre-annoucement

From:Stone Gordonssen <stonegordonssen@...>
Date:Monday, April 28, 2003, 13:53
>>Your gender >> >It's called sex, dammit. Nouns have gender, people have sex.
I suspect that he does meam sex, but societies also have gender. Several USA indigenous ones had 3: male, female & two-spirit (labelled "berdache" by overly opinionated European colonizers). One Siberian society had 7, if I remember correctly.
>>Your state/province >> >Can I request that people put their state name in full? It's annoying >having to wonder what the American two-letter abbreviations are >(especially annoying because some are also country codes).
I agree - I try never to expect anyone outside the USA or CANADA to know state/province abbreviations.
>>Password (so you can edit your profile later) >> >Shouldn't it be compulsory?
I, too, believe this should be compulsory. _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail