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Old 11-16-2002, 08:48 PM   #11
MaggieL
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Originally posted by BrianR

From my own personal views, it leans towards the feminine...
Well, remeber female is the default; male is the differentiated form.
But jeepers...with all the <a href="http://www.aetherlumina.com/gnp/">gender-neutral pronoun systems</a> in use, can't we do better than "it"?
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...does not know if it produces viable sperm from it's (undescended) testicles.
Undescended testicles tend not to be fertile; temperature control is important. But it's easy enough to check; all one needs is access to an optical microscope...and a sample, of course. Fertile semen is easy to see.
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