No Steve I don't want to fight any semantic battle on those two words. I just have a different lifelong understanding: gender as all matters—biological and psychological— of male and female and sex as a reproductive or recreational activity that humans usually perform in a horizontal position. But, agreed, this is not the hill I want t…
No Steve I don't want to fight any semantic battle on those two words. I just have a different lifelong understanding: gender as all matters—biological and psychological— of male and female and sex as a reproductive or recreational activity that humans usually perform in a horizontal position. But, agreed, this is not the hill I want to die on either.
The singular they, OTOH, I will resist to my dying day.
But I need less conflict in my life, not more, and aside from "they" and the nasty people and their screams of victimhood, I don't have a dog in this fight.
"I just have a different lifelong understanding: gender as all matters—biological and psychological"
Yeah, I get that. For pretty much any time until the past 10 years, it was perfectly safe (though not technically accurate) to use the words sex and gender interchangeably.
But today, this is the kind of semantic misstep that will be used to distract from the point. There are all sorts of issues today where linguistic precision is so important because the postmodernists love confusing/redefining words to hide the ridiculousness of their arguments.
No Steve I don't want to fight any semantic battle on those two words. I just have a different lifelong understanding: gender as all matters—biological and psychological— of male and female and sex as a reproductive or recreational activity that humans usually perform in a horizontal position. But, agreed, this is not the hill I want to die on either.
The singular they, OTOH, I will resist to my dying day.
But I need less conflict in my life, not more, and aside from "they" and the nasty people and their screams of victimhood, I don't have a dog in this fight.
"I just have a different lifelong understanding: gender as all matters—biological and psychological"
Yeah, I get that. For pretty much any time until the past 10 years, it was perfectly safe (though not technically accurate) to use the words sex and gender interchangeably.
But today, this is the kind of semantic misstep that will be used to distract from the point. There are all sorts of issues today where linguistic precision is so important because the postmodernists love confusing/redefining words to hide the ridiculousness of their arguments.