That is no longer true, at least in the U.S. While I was taught that
words have gender, people have sex, the advent of gender studies at
universities
(they couldn't really call it sex studies) and increasing popular use of
gender has made it a proper usage , and it is now accepted in the major
dictionaries.
Eric Jeffrey
Falls Church, VA 22043
In a message dated 1/21/2013 6:36:16 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
writes:
Good explanation here:
http://www.med.monash.edu.au/gendermed/sexandgender.html
Ian
On 22/01/2013 9:55 AM, Peter Shute wrote:
> How come?
>
> Peter Shute
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From:
>> On Behalf Of
>> Jonny Schoenjahn
>> Sent: Sunday, 13 January 2013 6:35 PM
>> To: Birding-Aus
>> Subject: [Birding-Aus] sex, not gender
>>
>> Hi Denise,
>>
>> you were referring to the sex of those Accipiters, not their gender.
>> Cutting a sociolinguistic explanation short: as fas as
>> ornithology is concerned, birds have a sex, but no gender.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jonny
>>
>> Jonny Schoenjahn
>> Perth WA
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Denise wrote on 12 January 2013:
>> "In the Top End size range for male Brown Goshawk is 33-42 cm
>> while for Collared Sparrowhawk it's 30-40 cm (both genders)."
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