I don't get it.
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From: "Jason Leonard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 11:57 PM
Subject: Re: The Finale: OSPF and IP Classless (partial retraction)
>
> Nope, 'cause blonde (with the 'e') refers for female routing engineers.
Or,
> rather, females in general. But be wary even using to refer to females..
>
> "Usage Note: It is usual in English to treat blond as if it required
gender
> marking, as in French, spelling it blonde when referring to women and
blond
> elsewhere. But this practice is in fact a relatively recent innovation,
and
> some have suggested that it has sexist implications and that the form
blond
> should be used for both sexes. There is certainly a measure of justice to
> the claim that the two forms are not used symmetrically. Since English
does
> not normally mark adjectives according to the gender of the nouns they
> modify, it is natural to interpret the final -e as expressing some
> additional meaning, perhaps because it implies that hair color provides a
> primary category of classification for women but not men. This association
> of hair color and a particular perception of feminine identity is
suggested
> in phrases such as dumb blonde and Is it true blondes have more fun? or in
> Susan Brownmiller's depiction of Hollywood's "pantheon of celebrated
blondes
> who have fed the fantasies of men and fueled the aspirations of women."
The
> corresponding masculine form blond, by contrast, is not ordinarily used to
> refer to men in contexts in which hair color is not specifically at issue;
> there is something arch in a reference to Leslie Howard, Robert Redford,
and
> other celebrated blonds."
>
> Howard wrote:
>
> > Does that mean that the reason that (male) blonde routing engineers
> > get better as they age, not from experience but from male pattern
> > baldness?
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