Grice on ♂

Nay, he never bothered. But _I_ do.

I think pirot's sexual dysmorphism was _not_ perhaps a good idea (by the Genitor) but hey I guess it's too late to complain.

Oddly, Plato could never get over the fact that he was a male (he keeps thinking he's Grecianly epicenic).

Now, I once investigated into the iconicity of

♂

-- surely the present note motivated by my surveying the symbol-availability in here --.

Unlike its counterpart, the hand mirror of Venus that signifies 'female'.

'the shield and the spear' is said to metonymise (as Kramer would say) _Ares_.

I think it's a pretty complete symbol:

the shield is the defensive side to our male nature.
the spear is our aggressive side.

O. T. O. H., and I shared this publicly elsewhere -- in CLASSICS-L, not in a bar -- apparently the symbols were never meant to mean what I claim they mean (aren't we masters and all, alla Humpty):

Rather, they were abbreviations for zoodiacal signs for the th and the ph of Venus and Mars _qua_ planets.

Ah well