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Might have more to say later, but just one bit of info: folks like that describe by poody don't like to be called hermaphrodites but intersex.
Transcending Gender Mother Jones RN 2006
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I state it here, is to suppose that he is a baby, and is again to tell him, in the old wearisome condescending patronising way, that he must be goody-poody, and do as he is toldy-poldy, and not be a manny-panny or a voter-poter, but fold his handy-pandys, and be a childy-pildy.
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To suppose that the working man cannot state this question to himself quite as plainly as I state it here, is to suppose that he is a baby, and is again to tell him in the old wearisome, condescending, patronising way that he must be goody-poody, and do as he is toldy-poldy, and not be a manny-panny or a voter-poter, but fold his handy-pandys, and be a childy-pildy.
The Uncommercial Traveller Charles Dickens 1841
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