Gender theory question

[pozorvlak]

Gender-theory kru, your attention please:

I came across the following recently, and wondered if any of you might have some idea of its source:

Gender is not like some of the other grammatical modes which express precisely a mode of conception without any reality that corresponds to the conceptual mode, and consequently do not express precisely something in reality by which the intellect could be moved to conceive a thing the way it does, even where that motive is not something in the thing as such.

Any thoughts? And can someone tell me what it means?

Comments

[kake]

> Any thoughts?

"What abominable writing."

[pozorvlak.livejournal.com]

Yeah. In its defence, I suspect it's been badly translated from some other language.

[mi-guida.livejournal.com]

I'm going to go with "I really hope it's been translated from some other language" or at least been written by someone who doesn't have English as their first language (and thus imposes the structures of their own language on English).

Sadly, though, I'm no help on what/why/where/whuh?