Re: Dog as masculine (the watchdog debate)

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In a message dated 96-02-08 04:11:42 EST, Tom Fischer writes:

>and the use of "cat" as a general identifier and for female Felis
>individuals, contrasting with "tom" or "tomcat" for the male Felis.

O.K., Tom, 'I wanna know': what is the cat equivalent of 'human'? If dog is
a male canine; bitch is a female canine; hound is generic. Man, woman,
human.

I don't want to insult my cats by referring to them as exclusively one
gender!

Kate Gillogly
Dept. of Anthropology
Univ. of Michigan

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