Comments on: ‘Female’ http://uzair.nairang.org/articles/2007/07/13/female/ Where Uzairs Roam Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:42:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Uzair http://uzair.nairang.org/articles/2007/07/13/female/#comment-16208 Uzair Tue, 17 Jul 2007 09:35:44 +0000 http://uzair.nairang.org/articles/2007/07/13/female/#comment-16208 <p>Reductionist -- exactly. The more I think about this, the more I feel man-made systems (capitalism, socialism, etc.) tend to extremes instead of sensible mayana-ravi, simply because they're open to interpretation and modification.</p> Reductionist — exactly. The more I think about this, the more I feel man-made systems (capitalism, socialism, etc.) tend to extremes instead of sensible mayana-ravi, simply because they’re open to interpretation and modification.

]]> By: A. http://uzair.nairang.org/articles/2007/07/13/female/#comment-16052 A. Fri, 13 Jul 2007 17:01:24 +0000 http://uzair.nairang.org/articles/2007/07/13/female/#comment-16052 <p>yeah - i second SMA.</p> <p>and also, I am confused about the pc terms for this stuff. Apparently, asking for 'gender' on a form is non-pc and 'sex' (which sounds odd to me) is better. Perhaps the idea is to employ the most reductionist-scientific terminology so as to somehow convey only the fact without any nuances about sexual orientation, etc etc. Dunno. I like more polite and less 'animal' words too... how can you ignore the linguistic aspects of civilization in human interaction?</p> yeah - i second SMA.

and also, I am confused about the pc terms for this stuff. Apparently, asking for ‘gender’ on a form is non-pc and ’sex’ (which sounds odd to me) is better. Perhaps the idea is to employ the most reductionist-scientific terminology so as to somehow convey only the fact without any nuances about sexual orientation, etc etc. Dunno. I like more polite and less ‘animal’ words too… how can you ignore the linguistic aspects of civilization in human interaction?

]]> By: SMA http://uzair.nairang.org/articles/2007/07/13/female/#comment-16040 SMA Fri, 13 Jul 2007 11:03:13 +0000 http://uzair.nairang.org/articles/2007/07/13/female/#comment-16040 <p>You finally posted something! Yay!</p> You finally posted something! Yay!

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