originally posted by: Mantiss2021
a reply to: infolurker
Oh I did.
But I did want to clarify the point that genitalia, or the absence of particular genitalia, to be more specific, does not determine the sex/gender of
an individual.
Furthermore, for the sake of clarity, can we agree to differentiate "sex" from "gender"?
I do realize that the terms are used almost interchangeably, most especially by those who seek to dispute and disenfranchise individuals whose gender
expression does not match birth, or current sex assignment.
For this purpose, "sex" is the body you were born into; "gender" is how you express your personal identity. A part, only a part, of that identity is
your expression of your sexuality, which includes, but is not limited to, your sexual orientation.
It may sound complicated, but then humans are very complicated creatures.
If we weren't, none of this would even be a matter of consideration.
And to make one point very clear,
Just as no one else has the right to tell you what or what not to think, no one has the right to tell anyone else what your gender is, or should
be.
They are used interchangeably because Sex and Gender are synonyms and are interchangable. There is a word already for what you're trying to call
"gender" it's called Transvestite. It means a man is pretending and presenting as a woman, or a woman is pretending and presenting as a man.
You don't change definitions of words to fit your fantasy, you make new words to describe new emergent behaviours. Why do you think they are called
"Trans" It's not short for transgender. That still, you can't be a women if born a man, you can be trans, which means man presenting as women and
vice versa, they are trans, and as such being to the Trans portion of LGBT(rans)Q+.
Note "Women" is not part of that community.
Sex and Gender are absolutely Binary, but you can pretend to be the opposite. That's not a third thing. That's one of two pretending to be the
opposite.
Uh, role playing. If you want to play pretend, that's cool, but people don't have an obligation to like it, most don't care what you do, some will,
they aren't bigots for not liking it.
People don't like me regularly, the reason why doesn't matter for any other reason unless I need to modify my behavior because I want them to like me.
That's called feedback.
I'll give you an example, I don't like drug addicts, I won't be friends with one, or support them in any way, if they want me to be their friend and
support them, they have to stop talking drugs.
Not liking drug addicts doesn't make me a bad person. When I don't like one, it's consequence of their behavior and decisions. Nobody is going to be
universally liked by everybody, you're not "bad" because you don't like something, you're certainly also not a bigot. That's not how that works.
This is called "Preference" and everybody has them. I'm entitled to have a preference. I'm never going to be friends with people I prefer not to be,
and you can't make me, nor is it wrong if I don't like what you like.
I don't eat fish, when my friends go out to eat, if seafood is the choice, I don't go. That's my preference. If they forced me to go and eat
something I prefer not to eat, how would I be the one that's wrong? They are forcing me to do something I don't want to do, I'm not stopping them
from eating seafood.
I have to tolerate you. I don't have to support you. the only basic right anybody has is they just be tolerated. If someone commits an act of
physical violence on you, I will defend you, don't mistake that for anything other than me respecting your basic human right. I will defend the
person who needs defense, not the person I like.
I have to tolerate you, I don't have to associate with you, like you, or accept you. Just tolerate. We all have to tolerate what we don't like for
society to work, but nobody has to participate or advocate for or propagate your illness.
We do, as humans, have to tolerate it though.
Gender is not a social construct, it's real. What y'all are trying to do is create a social construct, what you're finding out is society isn't
constructed by group think, society's general function and ideology is based upon observable facts. We didn't all get together and hold a summit to
decide there were two genders, there are two genders, that's why society operates binary.
Y'all are trying to hold that summit, force people to think like you, and construct society to believe something they know and can see isn't true, you
can't do it. It's not possible to construct society. Social constructs aren't real. Society operates on biological gene triggers and observation.
Somethings we intrinsically know, like how to have sex. nobody has to show any creature in the earth how to procreate, we all just do.
Get it yet? Y'all are way over the line.
edit on 6-4-2023 by SRPrime because: (no reason given)