On Wed, 05 Jun 2013 13:15:24 -0500, Moe DeLoughan >
wrote:

> On 6/5/2013 9:09 AM, Michel Boucher wrote:
>
> > There was a to-do many many years ago back when John George
> > Diefenbaker was still alive over the welcome sign to the town of
> > Tisdale, SK, which read "Tisdale the land of rape and honey."
> > Feminists objected to the glorification of rape on a town sign,
> > obviously unaware (or perhaps aware and ignoring it) that the
> > rape referred to here was a plant whose name came from the latin
> > for turnip, "rapa". Ignoring etymology will, as I've said
> > elsewhere, get you into all sorts of trouble.
>
> Reminds me of an article I read in the late 1990s (when the Internet
> had only recently become known to the masses). The idiot author
> denounced the male denizens of the Internet for objectifying women by
> referring to photos they'd share of women as 'gifts'. The author took
> that to mean that they were 'giving' each other symbolic 'ownership'
> of the women in the photos.
> The _idiot_ author reached this conclusion by assuming that the file
> extension .gif stood for 'gift'.

That's ignorant, not idiot.

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