Oof... I've been punned. Twice. (What sort of emoticon best conveys the feeling behind a deadpan expression combined with a knowing grin? Maybe
) I thought it might have been something about how the trucks were designed, though I had a sneaking suspicion it was nothing but the linguistic similarity already touched upon. But I suppose that works. What lesbian wouldn't want to take a ride on one of those?
Regarding gender relations and language: This reminds me of something I've wanted to discuss with people before. I think one of the bigger problems with this sort of thing is that in a lot of areas, women tend to be treated as if they're a deviation from the norm, instead of halves of a pair whose elements complement one another. Salient examples elude me right now, but I'll do my best: we have "girl gamers"; we have a PGA and an
LPGA; we have success stories that center their premise around the fact that the subject in question is female. When men are set up as "the thing" and women are set up as "something else", it makes it all the harder for both sexes to really intermingle and cooperate, since it reduces the common ground we perceive.
I wonder then, when it comes to language, is there a similar problem with the words "man" and "woman"? The latter appears to have a base in the former, which would reflect the problem mentioned above. Personally, though, I've always felt making a big deal out of that (see: "womyn") was silly, especially since, as I understand it, the etymology behind the word relates back to a prefix-base system that applied to both sexes. By older rules, "man" would just be a base meaning "human", and we'd have a prefix for males just as we have the "wo" prefix for females. Except, a lot of contemporary speakers don't know about that, and the fact that we no longer have a male prefix seems to indicate something's amiss. So now I don't really know what to think of it.
Too bad they don't make the Amazon any more.
girls aswell, boys are male...sapir-whorf my ass
