[Artemisia] Etymology, was Gender Bending Barons

[Caointiarn]

Actually, word origins are rather interesting subject - I for one wouldn't 
mind knowing about it.....

Morgan of Hawksreach

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephanae Baker" <stephanae at countryrhoades.net>

(snip)
> Transvestitism and transgendering probably often strikes even
> transvestites and the transgendered as absurd, but I'm not sure they
> actually are absurd. I am reasonably sure no one wants to hear me
> ramble about the etymology, denotation, and connotations of the word
> absurd.
 (snip)
> Belladonna
>