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[supergee]

As you know, Bob, Kurt Vonnegut said that we are what we pretend to be and then pretended to be a lovable simpleton. Since we are at most also what we pretend to be, Vonnegut remained a brilliant writer most of the time, but every so often he would say something like “Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you’ve been to college.” Not only is the semicolon a useful device for people who do not want to write like lovable simpletons, but it can save lives.

Thanx to Chronicle

Comments

[lavendertook]

Yay for cross- dressing intersexuals who have been to college!

A very cool idea.

[supergee]

As redbird noted in an lj comment, it is not clear what an intersexual would cross-dress as, but I'm in favor, too.

[lavendertook]

Since our binary gendered culture often makes an intersexual person choose one gender to present as, or they choose the gender they most identify with or were raised as, I would think cross-dressing would be of the gender they don't present as/identify with. So the descriptor works, despite the author's attempt to represent nonsense.