Some prefer 'snowperson' to 'snowman'

[Natasha]

Some prefer 'snowperson' to 'snowman'

http://www.thestar.com/living/article/553695
Trish Crawford
12/15/2008

Winsper Inc.'s Christmas card, at Winsper Wonderland, allows the sender to dress the snowperson as a male or female, depending on the sex of the recipient.

In a world of food servers, flight attendants, fire fighters, mail carriers and cow hands, is desexing a snow creature the last straw?

[Alyssa M.]

Yes, surely the end is near....



REPENT SINNERS!!!









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Dammit, those started out as Calvin and Hobbes strips -- the one with Susie Derkins making a snow woman (and Calvin's mom forbidding the making of anatomicl snowmen); and the one with snowman prophets announcing the coming doom of spring, as they melt. Alas.

[Vexing]

Yes, surely the end is near....
REPENT SINNERS!!!

[tinkerbell]

On the other hand, when it comes to Frosty, he is definitely a dude, says Chambers.

"He has a top hat."

  People need to get a life!

tink

[Buffy]

What a load of snow balls.......

Buffy

[lisagurl]

Many languages have always put gender into words even when it is not needed. Perhaps for the future English will drop gender pronouns if for nothing else, for e-mail and text messages.