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?

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.

Quote from: Alyssa M. on December 15, 2008, 06:23:14 PM
Yes, surely the end is near....
REPENT SINNERS!!!

Quote from: ArticleOn 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

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

Buffy

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.