Comments on: The Airport Exercise

By: Justin M. Stoddard

Justin M. Stoddard — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 04:13:35 +0000

I’ll concede that you can see it that way, but that’s not how I originally read it.

By: Eric D. Dixon

Eric D. Dixon — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 01:17:25 +0000

He’s making a general linguistic point as I applied it to a particular person, but not talking about flesh-and-blood people himself, so I think “gender” is right. You might even use a male-gendered word to refer to a woman who culturally identifies as male, even if she still sports female sexual organs.

By: Justin M. Stoddard

Justin M. Stoddard — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:50:06 +0000

Not to put too fine a point on it, but shouldn’t it be ’sex’ instead of ‘gender’?

By: Eric D. Dixon

Eric D. Dixon — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:19:06 +0000

Ha! Thanks, Cédric; it’s fixed now. I’m surprised I didn’t catch that myself — I already knew the similar rule about fiancé and fiancée, and it only makes sense that this word would have a similar method for specifying gender.

Sorry, Steve! It was entirely unintentional.

By: Cédric

Cédric — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:47:33 +0000

Protégée is for the female gender.
Protégé is for male.

Service,

Cédric.