GC: Thoughts on xenogenders and neopronouns? Why should "male" and "female" not be defined to mean one's gender besides sex? And if gender identity is not a real thing, why do cis, trans, nonbinary, etc people exist who have an internal sense of whether they're male, female, both, or neither?

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[–]PassionateIntensity 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Are there any disadvantages that come with male and female being used to refer to other things besides sex?

Yes. Agriculture would completely collapse if neither humans nor other species could identify the sex of plants and animals - and had to rely instead on plants and animals somehow revealing their inner "gender identities." Pollination of plants and the mating and reproduction of agricultural animals would become much more "iffy" and eventually would stop.

Imagine if farmers couldn't distinguish between bulls and cows based on their clear biological differences, but instead had to suss out the animals' gender identities. Consumers would end up with bull semen in their coffee, on their cereal and fed to their children.

😂 Taken literally or seriously it leads to the extinction of all life on earth -- but hey, no biggie.

[–]MissDimples[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Taken literally or seriously it leads to the extinction of all life on earth -- but hey, no biggie.

Well, I'm all for extinction of all "life" so it's not a biggie really. (no, I'm not joking. Saying this because most times people are like "are you joking" and I'm expecting that to pop up)