Yeah, the English language is made up of wildly contradictory bits of loads of other languages, so lots of it makes no sense. The difference is that the identical spelling of "bow" and "bow" isn't reinforcing any kind of power relationship, whereas much gender-specific language is.
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Date: 2006-02-17 10:13 am (UTC)