fox: my left eye.  "ceci n'est pas une fox." (keeper)
fox ([personal profile] fox) wrote2003-04-16 07:20 pm

is this post non-binary, or anti-binary?

so my last morphology assignment involved a set of data that were either marked singular, marked plural, or unmarked -- in some situations, the language uses the same form of the word for both singular and plural, so those forms are essentially "numberless," or zero-number.

i recall once having a discussion in which i argued for a distinction between irrational -- being what we usually think of when we say "irrational", i.e. actually opposed to reason -- and non-rational, which i thought of as just not necessarily in line with reason.

here's [livejournal.com profile] 3jane describing her co-worker as being "as anti-feminist as any woman I've ever met". the co-worker may indeed be anti-feminist -- i certainly don't know -- but surely there's a difference between someone (male or female) who happens not to be a proactive feminist, and someone who is anti-feminist. (maybe that depends on the definition of feminist ... but maybe not.)

it's not always the case that you're either for something or against it, i mean to say. is it? sometimes, really, you just don't take a position either way. zero-number. right?

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