# Gender Symbols... their origins... I was way off.

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 26, 2009, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gender-symbols-their-origins-i-was-way-off/504333 "2009-07-26T17:06:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2009, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gender-symbols-their-origins-i-was-way-off/504333/21 "2009-07-27T22:35:20Z")

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> [@Kyrie\_Eleison](#):
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> You have just blown my mind.

😛

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**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2009, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gender-symbols-their-origins-i-was-way-off/504333/22 "2009-07-27T22:41:35Z")

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> [@Colibri](#):
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> It might be noted that Mars was also Venus’s lover, although she was married to Vulcan.

Wasn’t Vulcan really, really ugly? Gotta love the ethos of those Greco-Roman gods, huh?

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**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2009, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gender-symbols-their-origins-i-was-way-off/504333/23 "2009-07-27T22:46:44Z")

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> [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#):
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> a mneumonic device.

I got stuck in one of those once. No worse pain.

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**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gender-symbols-their-origins-i-was-way-off/504333/24 "2009-07-28T01:23:23Z")

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> [@BigT](#):
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> Wasn’t Vulcan really, really ugly? Gotta love the ethos of those Greco-Roman gods, huh?

He wasn’t especially handsome and Venus never wanted to marry him. He bought her from Jupiter with (I can’t remember what). Vulcan was also had at least one crippled leg.

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**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gender-symbols-their-origins-i-was-way-off/504333/25 "2009-07-28T01:34:14Z")

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> [@DocCathode](#):
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> He wasn’t especially handsome and Venus never wanted to marry him. He bought her from Jupiter with (I can’t remember what). Vulcan was also had at least one crippled leg.

According to [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcan_(mythology)), Venus was a payoff from Jupiter to free Juno from a trick chair. However, the article also says that Vulcan was Jupiter’s weapons dealer: he forged the thunderbolts.

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**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gender-symbols-their-origins-i-was-way-off/504333/26 "2009-07-28T01:39:36Z")

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> [@Kyrie\_Eleison](#):
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> You have just blown my mind.

_Sigh_ Okay, my bad, how is it supposed to be spelled?

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**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gender-symbols-their-origins-i-was-way-off/504333/27 "2009-07-28T01:55:33Z")

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mnemonic

Also originating from Greek mythology.

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