Your sleuthing skills, sir, tickle me pink. Please keep it up.

But non-practicing, doncha know.

I don't think it's that conscious. But if you dig down most don't like "uppity" women. Don't regard women as equals. And abhor feminism. So yes I think control is a major factor here.

Yeah I had a Christian tell me he was against unemployment insurance and other help for the poor because they should "pick themselves up by their bootstraps". I think Jesus said something like that in the book of Matthew.

Amen.

I guess the best thing to do is wear some panties with a corporate logo on them so that if your panty pic is published the logo's owner will sue to remove it.

Maybe you were getting some shade for your ignorance because it is apparent from your comments that your internet works, and maybe just maybe you playing the "I am just ignorant" card about trans issues is pathetic because clearly you could go use google to cure your ignorance instead of DEMANDING to be educated.…

That story has already been debunked. A blogger called the YMCAs in the area asking if such an incident took place, and it didn't happen. Such stories only play out in the fantasies of transphobes.
http://www.thealbatross.ca/27595/toronto-…

The same things that are supposed to stop other hypothetical prison rapes from happening.

Um, WTF, dude?

I actually have OCD. I assure you, the nomenclature over gendering the name of a profession is among the least of the things I fixate on.

Can we get a bingo card for every comment that says the following, or a variant on the following:

Eight years of Latin and a love of outdated pedantry and you still misspelled etc.

And I don't think people are really getting bent out of shape. Just correcting a mistake and then replying to the defense of said mistake (which seems odd to include seeing as it was a joke).

Fair enough!

also, unless you're Agatha Christie or a Bronte sister, you're an author, not an authoress. ETA: and even then, um, no.

No offense, but if you love language you have to accept that language changes. Female versions of profession names with "ienne" or "ette" or "ix" and what have you are in almost all cases considered to be terribly archaic nowadays.

Very few female comics prefer comedienne to comedian. Same with actor/actress.

Nope. Not me.

You're confusing gender with sex. A cis gender man would be a male who identifies as a man. The whole point of using cis is to signify that they are biologically male identifying as men and female identifying as women. Trans people are in fact men who identify as men and women who identify as women because gender is…