Off: Comic Books

[Carl E. Anderson]

On tis 13 jan 1998 09.38 +0000 "Jon Browne" <jon at COMICS.DEMON.CO.UK>
wrote:
> In article <199801121626.QAA16673 at holyrood.ed.ac.uk>, M Holmes
> <fofp at HOLYROOD.ED.AC.UK> writes
>>Jon Browne writes:
>>> Not that it's aimed at
>>> women, it just happens to appeal to both genders for a change.
>>
>>SEXES! For Christ's sake humans have sex, not "gender".
>
> Is gender incorrect?

     Techinically, 'fraid so.  From a biological standpoint, humans (like
other sexually reproducing organisms) have _sex_: male or female.  Gender
specifies "masculine" or "feminine", which are subtly but significantly
different concepts  than "male" or "female".

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Carl Edlund Anderson
Dept. of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, & Celtic
St. John's College, University of Cambridge
mailto:cea20 at cus.cam.ac.uk
http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~carl/