I took a stab at organizing the Old Tamil phonemes, based on the description of speech production given in the Tolkappiyam. I only did the consonants. Feedback, corrections and criticism are very welcome!
| * | Velar | Palatal | Retroflex | Alveolar | Dental | Labial |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | க | ச | ட | ற | த | ப |
| Nasal | ங | ஞ | ண | ன | ந | ம |
| Approximant | ய | ய | ழ | ர | வ | வ |
| Lateral approximant | ள | ல |
Feminist scholarship in 2020s USA promotes viewing gender perception as “patriarchy” - i.e. men bossing women. What a false analogy! This is completely untrue since we have 99.9% legal equality in the USA since the 1970s. Two generations have passed since then.
And the result is oppressive domestic violence protocols for men, vide NOMAS guidelines “to the police office investigating: assume that the person with the larger body is lying”. Here’s the exact instruction manual from NOMAS for domestic violence first responders:
https://shorturl.at/vjlan
> The relative size and strength of the parties is usually easy to see. Sometimes abusers will pretend to be afraid of their partner (more likely they are afraid she will report his abuse), but this is likely an attempt at manipulation if the abuser is clearly physically superior.