On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Doug Henwood wrote:
> Miles Jackson wrote:
>
> >I'm getting tired of
> >earnest feminists complaining of my "patriarchal"
> >vocabulary when I use the term "rule of thumb" in
> >my research methods course.
>
> It's not even true, that etymology, is it?
>
> Doug
Well, that's the point: they're making a fanciful, unsubstantiated etymological claim-- in a social science methodology class. (The sound of the prof smacking his head against the whiteboard--)
Miles