On 31 December 2011 05:15, Ryan Kaldari
<rkaldari@wikimedia.org> wrote:
On 12/30/11 3:58 AM, Ms. Anne Frazer wrote:
> ...it's quite a mystery how the nouns are allocated a specific gender,
> and excuse this aside but I used to think on this and wonder why all
> the strong, positive, and creative words seemed to be assigned the
> grammatical masculine gender.
I'll let my favorite satirist Valerie Solanas answer this one:
"Being an incomplete female, the male spends his life attempting to
complete himself, to become female. He attempts to do this by constantly
seeking out, fraternizing with and trying to live through and fuse with
the female, and by claiming as his own all female
characteristics—emotional strength and independence, forcefulness,
dynamism, decisiveness, coolness, objectivity, vitality, intensity,
depth of character, grooviness, etc.—and projecting onto women all male
traits—vanity, frivolity, triviality, weakness, etc."
Ryan Kaldari