stupid thought about language use for discussing abstractions. it seems to me that gender politics has become so contentious that it's unhelpful to use "feminine" and "masculine" as category labels right now. how about "matter" and "pattern" instead?
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admittedly a bit stupid. what's specifically wrong about it?
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it is not stupid at all: you could argue that the pattern is the pater of the matter (giving it its structure), and the matter is the mater of the pattern (giving it its substrate), it is only wrong that gender is meaningless, as you can see here :)
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