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The male poet's courtship display: we lift our tail feathers, puff out our chests and circle the female poet, who expresses interest by feigning confusion and attempting to run for the exit. Courtship success rate is so low that the species is constantly threatened with extinction. At 04:51 PM 5/5/2006, you wrote: >>She's plain wrong. But where would be the hermeneutic fun in that? I'd point >>to what Walter Ong has to say about the feminisation of discourse in the >>early-modern period [in Orality & Literacy]. It may not be on display, but >>it is pretty fundamental in its importance. > > >I'm so glad you said that - whoever you are?! > >'She's plain wrong' > >Lovely. > >Tina