jquery .not() is not removing elements from jquery Object
<p>I have a lengthy form in html, and some of the <code>&lt;input&gt;</code>'s have a class called <code>dependancy</code>.  I have a function that uses jQuery to select the <code>&lt;form&gt;</code> element.  Like so:</p>

<pre><code>form = module.find('#formContainer').find('form');
</code></pre>

<p><code>form</code> now contains an HTML , and I have ensured it contains it by outputting <code>form</code> to the console.  Now, I want to remove some elements contained within <code>form</code> that are of the class <code>dependancy</code>.  I figured I could use jQuery's .not() like so:</p>

<pre><code>disabledFormElements = form.find('.dependency');
cleanForm = form.not(disabledFormElements);
</code></pre>

<p>When I output <code>disabledFormElements</code> to the console, it shows only the elements I want to remove.  Alas, the elements of class <code>dependancy</code> are not removed from <code>form</code>.  According to the jQuery documentation you can pass a variety of types to the .not() method and it should work.  Why might the .not() function not remove elements from the jQuery <code>form</code>?</p>

<p>I'm adding the HTML of the form to make it more clear:</p>

<pre><code>&lt;div id="formContainer"&gt;

&lt;form id="customText" accept-charset="UTF-8"&gt;
  &lt;div class="row equal-field-heights"&gt;
    &lt;div class="four columns"&gt;
      &lt;fieldset&gt;
        &lt;legend&gt;Is this for a Bar or Bat Mitzvah?&lt;/legend&gt;
    &lt;div class="four columns"&gt;
      &lt;label for="radio1"&gt;
        &lt;input class="dependency" name="gender" type="radio" id="radio1" value="m" checked onclick="changeGender('m')"&gt;Bar
      &lt;/label&gt;

  &lt;/div&gt;

  &lt;div class="four columns"&gt;
    &lt;label for="radio2"&gt;
  &lt;input class="dependency" name="gender" type="radio" id="radio2" value="f" onclick="changeGender('f')"&gt;Female
    &lt;/label&gt;
  &lt;/div&gt;

  &lt;input type="hidden" name="as_he_she_steps" id="as_he_she_steps" value="he steps" /&gt;
  .
  .
  .
  .
&lt;/form&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
</code></pre>
