Each one of billaricaydickey’s allegations against me on this site are libellous, however rather than take any action I have simply put in writing a rebuttal. But this really is getting too much, because it is an ongoing pattern, with one obsessed person continuing to make unfounded and damaging allegations. Quite simply it cannot go on like this on this site.

Vernichka, all German diminutives with the -chen ending are neuter.
Maedchen comes from Magd, which in older German meant woman; now it means ‘maid’ which does historically, I suppose, suggest an association between woman and servant. Maedchen is a small woman as in girl.

I find the neuter here quite delicious; it slips out of the male-female gender connotations. It has a soft sound – the ch is a very soft guttural – and throws a soothing light on many a German poem. Language can transform in-built prejudice inside out and make the ‘error’ come out on top as a virtue.

Not to mention “girl” being neuter

” I’m surprised Judy didn’t call you out on your pejorative use of the word “lunatic”. We should all be aware of its sexist connotations re the genderization of the moon…”

In German the moon is masculine and the sun is feminine.

If the normal sexuality of men is considered rape, Oh to be raped! But this usage cheapens the real significance of the word.

The hysterical female feminist sticklers for political correctness are, in a very real sense, Rapists of the mind, as evinced in the stories told above. Mental rape can be as serious as physical rape, but it is not punished. Castration is what they have in mind, but secretly they still want the potential rapist.

It is most unfortunate that many feminists want to become like their enemies, the men who hector over underlings at the office, for example.

In London once I met a woman, for whom I was doing a translation, at her home. When her man showed his head in the doorway he was commanded left right and centre until he hid behind a large pot plant.

In Portugal I lived in a house with, by chance, Germans and there the women ruled with a rod of iron and the men were cringing about the place, afraid of putting a foot wrong. In this particular case – by coincidence – the men were beautiful, sensitive and had expresive poetic depths in their eyes. I was thrown out for rebelling against this Amazonian rule.

I know these are particular examples but the are or once were typical.

Well, I have had my share – one of the regular toughs on HP called me a faggot and a Drama Queen – after absorbing the initial intention of being nasty, I love it. And Gene came to my rescue.

I was filled with unspeakable joy when Colonel Honeyball, the Latin teacher, said, “Felix, you have the mind of a butterfly and a female one at that.”

Yes, naturally Peter Tatchell would be called a Narcissist, though he seems to have put himself out a great deal for other people. He is a myth as he was already around years ago when I lived in London.

I always think of Narcissus as being completely self-forgetful. After all he doesn’t know that he is looking at his own image in the water. His beauty drifts away into eternity…

Cultural studies and its variants — structuralism, post-structuralism, neo-structuralism, discourse theory, contextural analysis, etc etc ad nauseam — are a virus on academe. Just look at some of the “written” work, which is incomprehensible and was so well exposed by the hoaxing engineer who wrote an entire essay about nothing that made it into a “respected” “academic” journal. In addition, it could be — and has been — argued that cultural studies et al are one of the primary causes of the cultural relativism that has so badly infected what used to be the progressive left. So no i don’t find it unsavoury, rather, i find it long overdue and highly necessary. The bonus is that it’s also really funny.