The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #89915 Message #1699469
Posted By: Joe Offer
21-Mar-06 - 02:12 PM
Thread Name: BS: Are all assholes male?
Subject: RE: BS: Are all assholes male?
MMario very aptly stated the rules of the Queen's English:
The circumlocations required to make the quoted statement genderless are either cumbersome and awkward, or incorrect grammatically. If you use the feminine then you are excluding the male. So the correct and logical manner would be to use the male pronouns.
If you don't like it, complain to the Queen.
But Shambles, you have far exceeded your quote quota of copy-paste Joe Offer quotations lately. You get one free one a day, which is a very generous allowance. Any copy-paste quotations exceeding that limit are subject to a $10 fee. If the quote is used as the foundation of an entire new thread (such as in this thread), the fee is $100. I think you owe me $940,000. -Joe Offer-