Chicken Sandwich
Senior Member
- Joined
- Jun 20, 2010
- Member Type
- Interested in Language
- Native Language
- Russian
- Home Country
- Russian Federation
- Current Location
- Netherlands
His take on the shows and the entire comic book subculture – while filled with stereotypes so clichéd that it made so-called computer nerds seem positively metropolitan – was nothing new: comic book people are geeky, dweeby, sexless onanists with no sense of the distaff and poor excuses for lives; Trekkies without the requiste hard-on for Shatner.
According to this site ( distaff - definition of distaff by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia. ), distaff can mean "woman considered as a group". But is this what the author meant? To me it seems that he could have easily said "with no sense of woman..", without changing the meaning.
What does the dictionary mean by "as a group"? Does this mean woman in general?