From: gwtmp01@...
Date: 2006-03-05T07:14:46+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Symbols


On Mar 4, 2006, at 3:53 PM, William James wrote:
> Nobody who has any sense wants to record the "gender" of
> a human being.  A person is a member of a certain sex, not
> of a "gender".  Hence, "the weaker sex".  Only words have
> gender.  That is elementary.  Unfortunately, ignorant witlings
> have decided that it is trendy and politically correct to
> substitute 'gender' for 'sex'.

Thanks for pointing all that out. Here is a corrected version
of my table:

	ignorant  educated
	--------  --------
         0         1
         'g'       'w'
         'gary'    'william'
         true      false
         :gary     :william

Gary 'witless' Wright