sex and gender

RonButters at AOL.COM RonButters at AOL.COM
Tue Oct 26 19:33:31 UTC 1999


<<the German is DAS NABEL>>

<This just goes to show you what happens when things get borrowed. Here in
the Willamette Valley it's DER Nabel.>

Right. I'll take a Bad on that one (bilingual pun intended). My navel looks
pretty neuter to me, but, hey--

der Nabel, die Mitte, das Zentrum

--a good lesson in just how little sex and gender have to do with each other.



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