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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Like "sexist," the attributions "masculine" and "feminine" are ascriptive, not descriptive. Adjectives have no direct prescriptive power in reality, despite their undeniable if merely occasional affective influence; <i style="font-size: 12pt;">that </i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">matter was sorted out in 1324 by William of Ockham. Today, 1991 is every bit as much ancient history as 1324.</span><div><br></div><div>MW Morse</div><div>z. Zeit freier Kunstler<br><div><br><div>> From: Jennifer.Bain@Dal.Ca<br>> So to refer to a cadence that ends on a strong metric position as<br>> masculine and one that ends on a weak metric position as feminine is not<br>> sexist...? Didn't we sort this out in 1991?<br>> <br>> Jennifer<br><br></div></div></div> </div></body>
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