This whole argument keeps coming down to language politics and the conflation of Sex and Gender because the same words can be used as classifiers for both. Imagine if the very first DMV license application had two classification question:
Sex: Male Female
Gender: Masculine Feminine _____
In such a world, where Masculine was the genderize…
This whole argument keeps coming down to language politics and the conflation of Sex and Gender because the same words can be used as classifiers for both. Imagine if the very first DMV license application had two classification question:
Sex: Male Female
Gender: Masculine Feminine _____
In such a world, where Masculine was the genderized term and Male was the Sex term, and blank was commonly filled out, would we be having this conversation?
Yep, you’re right. The problem is, the language games are a deliberate part of the strategy. As I’ve pointed out a few times, it used to be trans people who pointed out that sex and gender are different. And this was useful in helping people wrap their heads around gender dysphoria.
But now, the new wave of trans activists deliberately try to gloss over this difference by using male/man and female/woman interchangeably. Because doing so papers over some of the more glaring flaws in the ideology.
If there was a genuine attempt to use language honestly we wouldn’t struggle with these terms.
This whole argument keeps coming down to language politics and the conflation of Sex and Gender because the same words can be used as classifiers for both. Imagine if the very first DMV license application had two classification question:
Sex: Male Female
Gender: Masculine Feminine _____
In such a world, where Masculine was the genderized term and Male was the Sex term, and blank was commonly filled out, would we be having this conversation?
Yep, you’re right. The problem is, the language games are a deliberate part of the strategy. As I’ve pointed out a few times, it used to be trans people who pointed out that sex and gender are different. And this was useful in helping people wrap their heads around gender dysphoria.
But now, the new wave of trans activists deliberately try to gloss over this difference by using male/man and female/woman interchangeably. Because doing so papers over some of the more glaring flaws in the ideology.
If there was a genuine attempt to use language honestly we wouldn’t struggle with these terms.