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For most of my life, "gender" was simply the everyday synonym for "sex", for contexts where saying "sex" would feel inappropriate

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[–]BiHorror 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (5 children)

2 sexes and "2 genders." If you wanna know more, just Google: John Money and Queer theory (this is where that GNC bullshit is coined from).

It's why I gotta laugh when GC whine about TRAs when they act the same way they do.

[–]reluctant_commenter 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

It's why I gotta laugh when GC whine about TRAs when they act the same way they do.

Do you mean how GC tends to use the term "gender" to mean sex roles / stereotypes, as opposed to using "gender" as a synonym for sex?

[–]BiHorror 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yes. Both sides have equally bastardized the definition of gender. Therefore they BOTH deserve to judged/held accountable. Especially when it is both of their ideologies that stem from the very same sexologist. It would be hypocritical to complain about one and not the other.

The term "gender" fell out of fashion in the past... That's needed to be kept because it was perfect, and acting like normal people, use the terms: sex sex roles, sex stereotypes, etc. to explain things instead of pulling this extra victim shit. It does not help that normal people of society are starting to equate LGB to John Money because the faults of GC and TRAs. Homophobes are using it as ammo.

[–]reluctant_commenter 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah, to be frank, I don't see why it is useful to have "gender" as a shorthand for "sex stereotypes" when you can just say sex stereotypes. I say sex/gender to indicate that I consider them to be the same word. And, that is how much of academic writing uses them, though not all (some goes by the GC definition).

[–]materialrealityplz 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

How do GC act the same as TRAs...?

[–]BiHorror 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'm referring to their complaining of how TRAs did the big dvil of changing definitions (ex: sexuality, gender to mean w/o TRAs define it as, woman/man, etc.) when they do it themselves with gender. One complains about the other, and vice versa, when it comes to changing definitions but they're literally the two sides of the same coin when it came to changing the definition of words for THEIR own benefit.