From: DRAGONFLY           
To: TURTLE              
Subject: Whoops...      
Date & Time: 05/04/91 22:56:16
Message Number 16512

> The word "gender" is properly applied only to /words/... 
> People don't have a "gender," they have a /sex/.
     
   Sorry.  According to Webster's, "gender" was used to refer to 
people before it was used for words, and gives Charles Dickens'
"black divinities of the female gender" as an example. 
    
   Where's the source of your information?
                        //Dragonfly//