While editing my perhaps never to be finished Encyclopedia Xenologica, I return to pondering my favorite science fiction writer, Cordwainer Smith, for the umpteenth time. I discovered that his word "klopt" probably comes from the Dutch with his characteristic word play for the greatest enemy of (wo)mankind. It's ironic too because the Klopts have good reason for thinking of girl babies as a birth defect. It's ironic too because of how very relevant the dehumanization of women is now when Smith wrote his story fifty years ago. It also ties in with recent blogging on the pregnant man hoax. He and his stories were definitely ahead of his time. I even learne a bit about genetics to add to my entry.
Klopts: [Dut. correct, true] “lost children of mankind”, “singing monsters” singing “We want in, in, in!”, “worst people ever to get loose among the stars”, surviving colonists on Arachosia transformed by Astarte Kraus into feuding, burlesque, misogynic heterophobes, opposed by legendary Catlanders (“The Crime and the Glory of Commander Suzdal” by Cordwainer Smith), from XXY, XXYY and XYY Klinefelters to ‘neither male nor female” YY bleeders with steely-hair and red-green colorblindness, see psi-Klopts, Ptokls
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