In America, The Stupid Touches You.

[elfs]

Dear Gods, please tell me this man hasn't bred:

If it took "millions of years" for man to evolve from a rock with all of his complexities, what probability is there that a compatible female would arrive by the same process at the same time and place to propagate a human race?

Arrgh! The stupid, it burns!

Comments

[elfs.livejournal.com]

Indeed.

Y'know, I make this rant every once in a while where I see someone use "male" and "female", which are adjectives, when what they really mean are the more precise nouns "man" and "woman."

What I find interesting in this particular sentence is how he juxtaposed "man," which is precise: a human male, with "female," which is imprecise: a female what? Earthworm? Pigeon? Bonobo?

[lisakit.livejournal.com]

I'd be afraid to ask what his definition of a "compatible" female is. I mean, technically there are all kinds of species that are "compatible" to the human male.

Just sayin'...

[jordan179.livejournal.com]

What I find interesting in this particular sentence is how he juxtaposed "man," which is precise: a human male, with "female," which is imprecise: a female what? Earthworm? Pigeon? Bonobo?

He might be able to breed with a female bonobo, though the offspring would probably be sterile. Earthworms and pigeons are Right Out.

He seems not to grasp that a "species" includes both sexes.