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- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!hexnut!jenk
- From: jenk@microsoft.com (Jen Kilmer)
- Subject: Re: Verbs and gender connotations
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.084538.25911@microsoft.com>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 08:45:38 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <3186@tymix.Tymnet.COM> <1jl21rINNlh1@gap.caltech.edu> <MUFFY.93Jan20192740@remarque.berkeley.edu>
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- In article <MUFFY.93Jan20192740@remarque.berkeley.edu> muffy@remarque.berkeley.edu (Muffy Barkocy) writes:
- >In article <1jl21rINNlh1@gap.caltech.edu> peri@cco.caltech.edu (Michal Leah Peri) writes:
- >> Do other posters agree with the assessment that the verb "to fuck"
- >> irrevocably carries masculine gender? Is it impossible for women
- >> to fuck? What about lesbians?
- >
- >Absolutely not. I have a strap-on (actually two) which I have so far
- >only used on men (two of them). For that matter, it is very clear that
- >men *can* be "fucked," either by other men, or by women with the
- >appropriate toys. The poster you reply to is extremely heterocentric,
- >not to mention pretty damn vanilla...*grin*.
-
- Muffy, I agree...however, I would point out that "to fuck" doesn't
- necessarily mean "to penetrate". Altho, if you're ever in seattle,
- we really *must* have lunch or ... -um- ... *something*
-
- >"amorous inclinations"? Aha! I'm
- >not "not straight," I'm *inclined*.
-
- I wonder...will the post get more flirtmail than the .sig?? Only time
- will tell *grin*.
-
- -jen
-