And when you say, "her ears," I assume you are referring to the ears of the man in the dress? Did I get that right? The astonishing modern plasticity of gender is making it hard to keep up. And the plasticity of the language that goes with it reminds me that centerpiece of the story of the Tower of Babel was not the tower, but the linguistic curse.
Yes, the man in the dress who did the punching is a her. Who knows? Maybe the man in the dress was pregnant and feeling like her day was ruined because of the speech.
Might have been hormonal irritability, just a simple matter of his encounter with Gaines coinciding with the time of the month when he was at his most feminine.
And when you say, "her ears," I assume you are referring to the ears of the man in the dress? Did I get that right? The astonishing modern plasticity of gender is making it hard to keep up. And the plasticity of the language that goes with it reminds me that centerpiece of the story of the Tower of Babel was not the tower, but the linguistic curse.
Yes, the man in the dress who did the punching is a her. Who knows? Maybe the man in the dress was pregnant and feeling like her day was ruined because of the speech.
Might have been hormonal irritability, just a simple matter of his encounter with Gaines coinciding with the time of the month when he was at his most feminine.