From: spike66 (spike66@attbi.com)
Date: Wed Jul 17 2002 - 20:21:58 MDT
Amara Graps wrote:
> Edward Clarke in 1873 argued in his influential book: _Sex in Education_
> that the rigors of higher education would cause women to suffer from
> such dire problems as prolapsed uteri, menstrual disturbances, hysteria
> and (perhaps most horrible of all) "abnormally active cerebration." I.e.
> pursuing higher education would cause their reproductive organs to
> atrophy and they would be unable to bear children.
No Amara, it was a typo in the original. He meant abnormally active
*celebration* which is to say he anticipated by several decades classic
American sorority-girl party animal.
Question please: when did the term "girl" come back, and how did it
manage to become an acceptable term again? Ten years ago, we thought
it would be expunged from the language by the PC police. The term
seems to have ameliorated to respectability again, but it is utterly
mysterious to me how this happened.
What next? spike
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