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Re: OFFTOPIC Re: Abolish antisexism rules! Long live the equivalence of people!



Joey Hess writes:
> Um, people have gender too. Without any of the connotations "people have
> sex" has.
> ...
> 2: the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of
>    their reproductive roles; "she didn't want to know the sex
>    of the foetus" [syn: {sex}, {sexuality}]

A colloquial usage, recently brought into prominance by neoprudes in the
media who are afraid of those 'connotations'.
-- 
John Hasler
john@dhh.gt.org (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI


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