Respect and honour towards women in New England
The female sex here hold an honourable place in society, and have an important influence upon its concerns. The first place at the table, in the family, in the social circle, and in every other situation where they are found, is given to them of course. On all occassions they are treated with marked respect and attention, and the man who behaves rudely or insolently to a woman is considered as hardly meriting the name. [Timothy Dwight--Travels in New England and New York]
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Nothing much to tell. I’m walking a single solitary pilgrims walk, in England, that is not an easy one. I am a Calvinistic Covenanter Christian, My Autonomic Nervous system is failing slowly, which has led to severe disability, with an ultra rare disease than medics don’t even understand, often misdiagnose.and will no doubt kill me at some point. But, I trust the Lord to get me where I’m going. All glory to HIM.
The symptomology listed on the link, most porphyrics will only have most of those symptoms if in an acute attack. A few of us, with the ongoing, smouldering symptoms, that never go away, have most if not all of the symptom list, even when not in an acute attack, and are persistent and constant. Anyone who has ever been in the psychiactric system, diagnosed as this or that, even if physically well, should consider this illness could be responsible. King George III, the most famous porphyric, his sole symptom was “insanity.” Its so rare in part, because it’s massively under-diagnosed. But in making this illness known, when it struck me physically a few years ago, God vindicated me from every mis-diagnoses and bersmirchment upon me medically that has ever been made, and has made them all null and void.
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Wow. I wish it was still that way. We’ve devolved quite a long way.
In the last few decades, the default singular personal pronoun has become feminine: “When a philosopher undertakes to investigate the nature of naturalism, SHE must deal with W.V.O. Quine.” I have been unable to get on board with this move from the male (or both–”he or she”) to the female pronoun in my academic writing, because I have sensed a feminist agenda in it.
Today’s quote represents the only way I can imagine this practice’s possibly being justified.
Does anyone have an opinion on the matter?
Chuck
You may well be correct that it has its roots in feminism, as its quite common today too, to hear of God referred to as a “she” or such as some new “bible” translations, go on to make a genderless God.
Chuck, that’s right. We have capitulated to feminism through the defaulted use of feminine gender pronoun usage. Situations in which gender is unknown or netural used to always default back to the masculine form of the noun.
This is particularly true in the usage of “they” (f) in mixed company. “They” is a feminine noun. It is a subtle yet important distinction.
David, thank you.
Of course, to use “they” as a singular pronoun (as is often done) is silly. It’s interesting that “they” is feminine; I didn’t know that. But it raises a question: What should we use for a mixed group (3rd person)?
Also, with respect to the singular, are you saying we should always use “he” as the default?
Thanks again.