Indo-European nouns were originally what we call "masculine". Nouns that were seldom used in the nominative (the subject form) lost it and became "neuter". Their remaining ("oblique") cases were identical to the masculine in the singular (thus in English, "his" meant "of him" and "of it" until the late 1500s. Instead of having a plural these "neuter" nouns formed collective nouns (requiring originally a verb in the singular) in -A. These collective came to be used for the contents of an animal's den, i.e. the mother and young. Eventually new singulars in -A came to designate the mother animal on her own and formed new plurals. This was the origin of "feminine" nouns. Gradually this "feminine" category was used for nouns seen as "female." Thus the origin word for "water" remained neuter but the Latin novelty of "aqua" became neutral from the concept of its penetrability. "Moon" was masculine, but this word in Latin acquired the sense of "month" and the moon came to be called "Luna", the shining one, presumably in contrast to the masculine "Sun". In the Germanic languages however where the original masculine word for "moon" was kept, "sun" became feminine by contrast.

In politics as in much else in human life, "truth" is often unobtainable but even when it is, it matters little if it is not believed. Perception is everything! If most voters. or most of those who vote Republican, believe he is an alien, then that belief, merely because it is widespread becomes relevant politically and, as far as the 2012 election is concerned, it becomes as near fact as makes no odds. In the same way the original Boston Tea Party was a ruse by a very corrupt and crafty politiician to persuade the gullible that the tea was some fiendish Tory plot with nothing whatever with Sam Adams' desire to preserve his monopoly of the supply of tea (at a high mark up) to Boston retailers. But it has always been perceived as Adams wanted it perceived, including notoriously today's Tea Party. Again perception is all that matters. Facts are the enemy of every convcition politiician, and will always be ignored or twisted to decieve the gullible.