[Ads-l] Where are the PC police?

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Sat Sep 17 19:44:39 UTC 2016


Chicken Little (2005) - IMDb
www.imdb.com/title/tt0371606/
IMDb
Rating: 5.8/10 - ‎64,469 votes
Animation · After ruining _his_ reputation with the town, a courageous
_chicken_ must come to the rescue of _his_ fellow citizens when aliens
start an invasion.


When did chickens - not to mention honeybees, wasps, hornets, cows, etc. -
become *male*? No less a light than Seth MacFarlane has even portrayed
bulls as having udders.

Is it becoming the case that, in English, _male_ v. _female_ is relevant
only WRT personkind?

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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