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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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[–]Three_oneFourWanted for thought crimes in countless ideologies 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

But even being GNC and not letting your gender be a determining factor in your life doesn't magically make everyone have their own gender. What they're doing is taking reasonable things, such as everyone expressing their gender and sexuality in a unique way, and taking it to the literal extreme and saying that everyone has a unique gender and sexuality. Two chocolate cakes can taste different, but they're still both chocolate and there's no need to treat them as entirely different flavors. It may be useful to make distinctions within chocolate, such as german chocolate cake, but that is no less a chocolate cake than any other.

They apply reasonable statements to things that they don't apply to, which makes it difficult to call them out because the statements aren't too far from the truth, it's just being used incorrectly.

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

Well, considering the topic of this overall post, this goes both ways. NBs shouldn't exist, neither should "GNC" shit. I'm not "GNC," I'm just a normal person who doesn't conform to sex stereotypes. I don't need a special label for that, especially one that bastardized the English language as much as TRAs did. Both of these terms removed the original definition of gender and come from queer theory. Shit, even if gender wasn't used for sex, it still was bastardized for some "muh feelings" or "muh rebellion to societial expectations."