On Tue, 29 Jun 2010, Frank Barknecht wrote:
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:17:34AM +0200, João Pais wrote:
Not that it would pay off anyway, but any deterrent is better than no
deterrent.
Pardon my slightly sexist language here, but:
IMO the best way to deter is this to have big balls! :)
It really struck me that very grown-up feminists would use the term
"having balls" and I'd be somewhat shocked and ask them why they don't
find a term that would represent them more and they didn't seem to be
understanding the point. It seems that the term has already been made
figurative to the extent that it's been "degenitalised" to say the least.
WAIT, the actual word I'm talking about is not "balls", it's a word that
is normally *reserved* for genitals, and I'm talking about "couilles"
[kuj]. It's not at all like "balls" which also meant lots of other things
before the meaning we're talking about.
But I don't think it really speaks for the nation (nor that it's the same
in other places in the world). I live in a place that also massively
thinks it's important to give every profession name a feminine noun (un
programmeur, une programmeuse).
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