Boy: Today we learned about typhoid Gary! Frazz: Typhoid Gary? Frazz: Not typhoid Mary? Mr. Burke: Depends on which gender is working the cafeteria any given year.
@olddog1 According to the Oxford English Dictionary, people have been using the word “gender” to refer to male-female distinctions in humans and animals since the 14th century. As Paudil says, they were uncomfortable using the word “sex”, since that word didn’t come into English usage until almost a century later, according to online sources.
not quite, she was an Irish immigrant female and was thus expected to be a servant. She was held for years against her will in a typhoid ward after she got the first family she worked as a cook for sick. .When they finally let her go, she did work as a maid for several years, but maids weren’t paid nearly as well as cooks (and there was no such thing as social security or min wage) so she eventually went back to working as a cook and got another family sick. Then they locked her up in a quarantine hospital for life.
Squizzums about 8 years ago
However, there’s no Great Mary Gnu.
Olddog1 about 8 years ago
Anybody know when the word “gender” went from being a grammatical term to a biological term?
whiteheron about 8 years ago
I would have thought they would have upgraded to Ebola Lola by now.
R.U. Kidding about 8 years ago
Revisionist history! Awesome!
lutro about 8 years ago
@olddog1 According to the Oxford English Dictionary, people have been using the word “gender” to refer to male-female distinctions in humans and animals since the 14th century. As Paudil says, they were uncomfortable using the word “sex”, since that word didn’t come into English usage until almost a century later, according to online sources.
water_moon about 8 years ago
not quite, she was an Irish immigrant female and was thus expected to be a servant. She was held for years against her will in a typhoid ward after she got the first family she worked as a cook for sick. .When they finally let her go, she did work as a maid for several years, but maids weren’t paid nearly as well as cooks (and there was no such thing as social security or min wage) so she eventually went back to working as a cook and got another family sick. Then they locked her up in a quarantine hospital for life.