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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><br>May I trust that this repulsive and witless ad hominem will not see dissemination? Thank you.<div><br></div><div>MWM<br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 22:17:31 -0400<br>Subject: Re: [Smt-talk] Gender Terminology in Music Theory<br>From: psheehan251@gmail.com<br>To: mwmorse@bell.net<br>CC: smt-talk@lists.societymusictheory.org<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Readers (and Trolls):</div><div>Of course "feminine cadence" and "masculine cadence" are examples of sexist usage. Ascribe, describe, Ockham? It's sexist.</div><div> </div>
<div>In addition to Paul's utterly reasonable alternative (crusis, etc.), one could simply distinguish between "metrically emphasized" and "metrically non-emphasized" events.</div><div> </div><div>
All the best,</div><div>Paul Sheehan</div><div>Nassau Community College</div><div>Garden City, New York</div></div><div class="ecxgmail_extra"><br><br><div class="ecxgmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 4:10 PM, Michael Morse <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mwmorse@bell.net" target="_blank">mwmorse@bell.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><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<div><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> </div></div>
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