Bringing into education materials based in Queer Theory, including so-called gender-critical perspectives that separate sex and gender as though they are completely different phenomena, is meant to make children activists in this disruptive, destabilizing mode of misunderstanding the world.

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[–]According-Junket-885 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

There is definitely a third paragraph there, and it says what the other guy claimed.

[–]Q-Continuum-kin 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

On my phone it shows up as 2 paragraphs. Just checked as desktop version and see the 3. However, it definitely doesn't say what he claimed. He claimed it's "synonymous" and the website doesn't claim that. It says there was a "sense" of the meaning.

[–]LtGreenCo 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I think you're misunderstanding the phrase "sense of the word". It doesn't mean a vague feeling or whatever you're thinking. It means a particular definition of a word.

[–]Q-Continuum-kin 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I was ready to believe you until I clicked the link which makes it seem like you are trying to make your point in bad faith by linking to something which doesn't support your own argument.

You looked up "sense of the word" on Webster and that phrase didn't exist so it gave 2 suggestions.

"in every sense of the word"... Ie there are multiple ways to consider the word but in EVERY sense it means a certain thing.

"in the strict/strictest sense (of the word)" ... Ie without allowing for any deviation from the definition.

Neither of those things define the thing you claimed.

[–]LtGreenCo 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Which one of those definitions said a "vague wishy-washy kinda-sorta feeling of a word" like you seem to think it means? I think you're just trolling at this point.

[–]Q-Continuum-kin 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Why do you put quotes around things which aren't quotes? It goes to prove your arguments are in bad faith.

Which one of those definitions said a "vague wishy-washy kinda-sorta feeling of a word"

Neither because neither defines the fucking thing you keep saying it does, holy shit.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_sense

In linguistics, a word sense is one of the meanings of a word. For example, a dictionary may have over 50 different senses of the word "play", each of these having a different meaning based on the context of the word's usage in a sentence

You gave me a definition for EVERY SENSE so if there are 50 senses of a particular word then in a particular case IF ALL 50 SENSES OF THE WORD DEFINE THE SUBJECT AT HAND the it means in every sense of the word.

The etymology website says "The "male-or-female sex" sense of the word" which is implying 1 meaning which if used in a sentence the reader could

reconstruct the likely intended meaning of a word. This process uses context to narrow the possible senses down to the probable ones.

Colloquially the word gender was not viewed as a synonym for sex until the 1900s as stated in the etymology website. By which they likely mean the late 1990s. The fact that they just broadly lump it into the entire 1900s is unfortunate for the context of this particular issue because people start acting like everyone just spontaneously started saying it in like 1901.