  Following up on a recent model yielding fermionic geometries, I turn to more
familiar territory to address the question of statistics in purely geometric
theories. Working in the gauge formulation of gravity, where geometry is
characterized by a symmetry broken Cartan connection, I give strong evidence to
suggest that de Sitter space itself, and a class of de Sitter-like geometries,
can be consistently quantized fermionically. By this I mean that de Sitter
space can be quantized such that the wavefunctional picks up an overall minus
sign under a $2\pi$ rotational diffeomorphism. Surprisingly, the underlying
mathematics is the same as that of the Skyrme model for strongly interacting
baryons. This promotes the question {\it "Is geometry bosonic or fermionic?"}
beyond the realm of the rhetorical and places it on uncomfortably familiar
ground.
