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Another revolution in progress ?Gentlemen and Officers: mind your language http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-13333013
I think that's an exercise in futility. Even if that word were to be “rehabilitated” as they desire, the meaning will simply shift to another word. The fact that there is not a similar equivalent for males may be a double standard, but that's just the way it is. I don't see how they can really fix it.
An amusing exercise in postmodernism don't you think?
You mean trying to change the meaning of words for ideological purposes?
Excuse my French …http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/ny_now_foreign_soiled_aO2qBVSSksO04WuZjDCjkI/0 ... Enough is enough. Get rid of the creeps! From fall to summer, they arrive on our shores. The decadent. The de praved. The malodorous, greedy, drunk and demented. They are scofflaws and alleged rapists. Petty criminals and those who commit crimes of passion, opportunity or sheer boredom. They have one thing in common. They are foreign nationals...Sodom and Gonorrhea sydrome or short memory ? (Is this article laughable or ... the gap is really really deep ?)Both judicial sytems are very different but how to explain it ? ???
There is a gap, due to history and time: America was first settled by people who couldn't stand Europe anymore, for religious or political reasons. I don't know if this can axplain that
Analysis of early human-like populations in southern Africa suggests females left their childhood homes, while males stayed at home. http://www.americanscientist.org/science/pub/ancient-cave-women-left-childhood-homes Forever female would have said Irving RapperAll quiet on the gender front ? ;D
