verstehen libre.
Monday, March 10, 2008
  Today's Deeply Unfortunate Insight Brought On by Too Much Generals Prep
Second in what I'm afraid is inevitably going to be a series...

Evidently, I am quite horrified to report, there is a strong etymological link between the words "public" and "pubic." A terrible legacy that is, as Nancy Fraser so evocatively puts it:

"...a graphic trace of the fact that, in the ancient world, possession of a penis was a requirement for speaking in public. A similar link is preserved, incidentally, in the etymological connection between 'testimony' and 'testicle.'"

You're all so very welcome.
  10:04 AM




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