The whole English language is sexist
I mean, why is the act of hurting a person for their actions against you called "Penalising" them? Why not "Vagalising"?
(MrOli is ugly, but in the morning you will be sober, Mon 4 Jan 2010, 14:52, 11 replies)

After much thought,
I reckon this must have come from the middle ages, where the wronged was allowed three slaps around the face of the accused with their member, thus where they "penalised". This probably stung in a way one couldn't achieve with the average labia.
(MrOli is ugly, but in the morning you will be sober, Mon 4 Jan 2010, 15:01, closed)

Because
Because it sounds like a cream for thrush!
(Ghostlight, Mon 4 Jan 2010, 15:15, closed)

lol, true, true
Caniston Oral. What's that all about? Can one get oral thrush? Must have been horrible before they came up with the pill form and it was all cream based remedies.
(MrOli is ugly, but in the morning you will be sober, Mon 4 Jan 2010, 15:22, closed)

and yet
a women only prison would still be called a Penal correction facility.... makes you wonder where they get the phrase "going straight" for when people leave prison? ;-)
(golddust QOTW now revolves around being a cunt, Mon 4 Jan 2010, 15:44, closed)

Yeah, good point...
Even more so with the number of bent willies out there.
(MrOli is ugly, but in the morning you will be sober, Mon 4 Jan 2010, 16:39, closed)

Because
it's from the Greek - poinē - meaning punishment, whereas penis is from the Latin pēnis, originally meaning a tail. According to my copy of Chambers, anyway.

Generally if you think the English language is sexist you don't know enough about its etymology, and are in danger of thinking that the word "history" should be spelled "herstory" when talking about a woman.

From the Greek histōr, meaning knowing.
( Legionary - My god, Brian, there's a message in my alphabets, Mon 4 Jan 2010, 15:52, closed)

Pah, you can prove anything with facts...
:-)
(MrOli is ugly, but in the morning you will be sober, Mon 4 Jan 2010, 15:59, closed)

Indeed.
Sorry, just re-read the above and it sounds a bit condescending - you just managed to hit one of my pedant buttons :)
( Legionary - My god, Brian, there's a message in my alphabets, Mon 4 Jan 2010, 16:01, closed)

S'all good :-)
My tongue was very firmly in my cheek. Almost responded with a mini-rant about all the feminists wanting to miss-correct (if that's a word) occurances of "man" with "woman", but haven't really got the brainpower left this late on the worst-of-all-Mondays...
(MrOli is ugly, but in the morning you will be sober, Mon 4 Jan 2010, 16:37, closed)

the french language..
is, as any fule kno,a tongue where nouns are gendered; le singe est dans l'arbe, and all that.

when the former mrs 2shoes was teaching me french, i asked if there were any rules to learn to assist in recalling the masculine/feminine nature of nouns, even easy ones like gender-specific attachments.
nope, vagina is masculine, and beard is feminine. It's just the french fucking with other peoples heads.
(micky2shoes has more shoes than feet, Mon 4 Jan 2010, 19:36, closed)

yes, but
you can catch herpes, but not hispes
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Mon 4 Jan 2010, 22:59, closed)