Why Is the Vagina Masculine? And What’s the Alternative?
“Vagina” is masculine I first came across this factoid thirty years ago in Daphne Marlatt’s novel Ana Historic . It came up again more r...
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"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively deba... -
"I might've fallen for that when I was fourteen and a little more green But it's amazing what a couple of years can mean &qu... -
Tense versus aspect Some languages do not have verb tenses. The English language has only one tense: the simple past tense, also known ... -
Education is one of the Trump campaign's important positions Until November 9, 2016, I never imagined there would be any reason to co... -
On Reading "The Uyghur Genocide: An Examination of China's Breaches of the 1948 Genocide Convention"Apologist for China, Me? In response to numerous posts I had written on Canada's arrest and detention of the Huawei CFO, Meng Wangzou,...
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Education can't solve economic inequality When my guru forwarded Nick Hanauer 's article in The Atlantic , " Better Schools W... -
The Plan for Romeo and Juliet to consummate their marriage When the Nurse explained the plan—a rope ladder, “the cords,” would be placed ... -
The National Inquiry Report on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls and Two-Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer... -
The "Ball of string" theory I believe in the “ball of string” theory of learning English. Imagine that the English language is ... -
Where's the "on" switch? Just when I was feeling so smart because I'd bought myself a new fancy-pants Mac computer, I had ...
