[lit-ideas] Geary on thermoreception and genderism
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:07:09 EDT
From the wiki:
"Thermoreception, which is the perception of heat
Nociception, which is the perception of pain."
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Geary:
"The "feels like" temperature is for drama queens who want to complain more
than they have a right to."
Oddly, I discussed this once.
Apparently, the correct spelling should be 'drama queAn'.
In Indo-European, 'quean' is 'gune', the woman --. While 'king' refers to a
male monarch, only English changes the root when it comes to a female
monarch. In Denmark, as Geary's brother may testify, the Female Kingess is
never a 'queAn'.
In Engish, 'quean' is used to refer to the 'gender' variant of a 'queen',
or 'woman'. In the times of the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy, English queens were
never referred to as Queens. That would have been derogatory, as if to refer
to the king as 'our man' -- for 'queen' meant plain 'woman' in
Anglo-Saxon.
On the other hand, there's desperate househusbands.
Speranza
Bordighera
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