Wow I am amazed, 53 replies in less than 24 hours. I never realised this was such a sensitive subject.

Guest T-boy : to paraphrase your own post
   Per-leeeaze... gender is a description ... sex is an activity.... at least it in when speaking English...not that I'm objecting to the activity but if you are going to be pedantic and issue corrections you may as well get it right.

Spaw : thank you for your "dry"wall contribution, I needed cheering up and the mental picture your post conjured up did that with a vengence.