Saturday, July 22, 2006

Punctuation equals gender not-so-neutral.

An English professor at a university wrote the following sentence on the blackboard;

"A woman without her man is nothing."
He asked his class to punctuate the sentence correctly to make it either masculine or feminine.

The males in the class wrote;
"A woman, without her man, is nothing."
The females in the class wrote;
"A woman: without her, man is nothing."
Astounding what a tiny comma can do, isn't it?

1 comment:

Gina E. said...

And some fools want to extinguish punctuation from our language...party poopers out to spoil the fun!