From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2008-03-09T12:10:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Creating a search

On 3/8/08, William James <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Mar 8, 4:39 am, Tom Ha <tom...@gmx.net> wrote:
>
>  > params[:search] (i.e. params[:search][:firstname],
>  > params[:search][:lastname], params[:search][:gender], etc.)
>
>
> It is mindless to ask a person "What is your gender?"
>  Gender only applies to words.
>  The correct question is "What is your sex?"

From the Mac Dictionary app:

gender

noun
See sex sense 3.
USAGE NOTE
The word gender has been used since the fourteenth century primarily
as a grammatical term, referring to the classes of noun in Latin,
Greek, German, and other languages designated as masculine, feminine,
or neuter. It has also been used since the fourteenth century in the
sense 'the state of being male or female,' but this did not become a
common standard use until the mid twentieth century. Although the
words gender and sex both have the sense 'the state of being male or
female,' they are typically used in slightly different ways: sex tends
to refer to biological differences, while gender tends to refer to
cultural or social ones.


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Rick DeNatale

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