Re: Dog as masculine (the watchdog debate)

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In the English language "dog" is the generic identifier for individuals of=
the Canis persuasion. It is also quite specifically the identifier of male=
Canis individuals, contrasting with "bitch" or "vixen" for female Canis=
individuals. It is identically (no more and no less) sexist to the use of=
"man" as a general identifier for Homo individuals and also for male Homo=
contrasting with "woman", and the use of "cat" as a general identifier and=
for female Felis individuals, contrasting with "tom" or "tomcat" for the=
male Felis.



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Michael Fischer
Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing
University of Kent at Canterbury
M.D.Fischer@ukc.ac.uk
http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/fischer.html

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