bluesmama wrote:
> Ben wrote:
> > Hyerdahl wrote:
> > > Ben wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hyerdahl wrote:
> > > > > Deborah Terreson wrote:
> > > > > > In article
> > 
> > > ,
> > > > > > "Hyerdahl"  wrote:
>  
> > > > > > > Prove it, "Deb".
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Ooop. Here comes the quotation marks around my name
again...
> > > > >
> > > > > That's right;  I'd need proof of your sex/gender as well, if
> you
> > > want
> > > > > those marks off, dear.
> >
> > You should probably be reminded that being a man isn't a mark
against
> > someone.
>
> I have to agree with you, Ben, being a man isn't a mark against
anyone.
>
> Unless by calling that person a man you call her femininity into
> question. Then it's "defeminizing" and it is an epithet.
>
> Just as being a woman isn't a mark against anyone - unless his
> masculinity is being called into question, in which case it's
> "emasculating" and it is an epithet.


Good points.  True enough.   :)



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