you are viewing a single comment's thread.

view the rest of the comments →

[–]weavilsatemyface 13 insightful - 5 fun13 insightful - 4 fun14 insightful - 5 fun -  (4 children)

There are only 2 genders.

People do not have gender. "Gender" is made-up bullshit. People have a sex, and there are exactly two sexes.

The only actual meaning of "gender" is a technical term from linguistics (the study of languages), where languages can have no genders, two, three, or as many as twenty categories for nouns and verbs.

[–]Musky 7 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

"Gender" is made-up bullshit

It's not, gender has meant the same thing as sex for almost as long as the word existed. There's been a push to redefine the term to legitimize gender identity. Push back against that, whenever someone says "ackshually gender and sex are different," tell them no, no they aren't. Or at least they didn't use to be until it was convienient for their ideology.

[–]weavilsatemyface 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

gender has meant the same thing as sex for almost as long as the word existed

Not quite.

The word "gender" meaning "class or kind" goes back to around 1300, which is now effectively obsolete except for very specialised uses like the gender of plugs (male or female). It took about a century for the grammatical meaning to appear, and another century for people to start using "gender" as a humorous, deliberately over-technical term for the two sexes. A little like using "sanitation engineer" for the guy who picks up the trash, or perhaps something like "Marines are a different species from the rest of us".

But the modern use of gender as a euphemism for "sex" comes from the second half of the 20th century, and the even more modern sense of gender as some nebulous, undefined and undefinable feeling about what sex you are is even more recent. Euphemisms are bad enough, but the modern "gender" is self-contradictory and incoherent nonsense on stilts.

If you ask trans activists, they themselves cannot decide whether sex and gender are different, or rather, they will flip from one belief to the other whenever convenient:

  • Gender identity is a social construct that has nothing to do with the two male and female sexes;
  • but "sex is a spectrum" and there are more than two sexes;
  • and trans women are real women;
  • gender identity is inherent to me, and has nothing to do with social expectations;
  • but if society calls me by the wrong pronoun, or "dead-names" me, my identity is destroyed like a delicate flower in a nuclear blast.

Don't expect this to make sense. It doesn't, and the TRAs like it that way.

[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

Saved.

[–]BISH 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Saved.

I saved, your save.

Jesus saves. And takes half damage.