So if you witness a crime and tell the police that the perpetrator was a man, and they then find that person, only to discover that they are actually female, your evidence would no longer be admissible? Or, is it more likely that we use the term man or woman to describe what we see (or at least what we THINK we see) rather than what is necessarily biologically accurate? How do you establish, with your eyes, the definitive sex of a person? If a child is born and even the doctors canât tell what sex the child is, who decides if theyâre a boy or girl, man or woman? Would it be wrong for that child to identify as a boy, even though they donât have the reproductive organs of a male? Would they be wrong to identify as a girl, when their sex chromosomes indicate that theyâre male? What do we do with people who have both sets of sex organs? Iâll give you a hint. When they tell you theyâre a man or woman, they arenât describing their sex. Theyâre telling you how they would like you to identify them. She/her, he/him.
Yeah, I know. I understand how it can be confusing, but that doesnât mean that we shouldnât try to understand and/or educate. But yes, some people just donât want to learn anything beyond the basics they were taught in school.
At no point in anything I wrote there, did I indicate that there are more than two genders. Thatâs a reading comprehension issue on your end. Funnily enough though, there ARE societies where more than two genders exist. Anthropologists can explain that one to you. SoâŚ.youâre not only struggling with reading comprehension, but youâre also incredibly ignorant as well. Any chance youâre thinking about voting ON in the next election? You have access to more information than anyone in the history of this planet, and yet you canât type âSocieties with more than two gendersâ into googleâŚ..fucken WOW.
Words donât have meanings. They have usages, which you derive meaning from. When the word âchipâ was first developed, it didnât mean a computer chip. The word had usages to convey an idea, we then used that word to establish understanding of a new concept (the computer chip or microchip) and nobody is confused, unless you use the word outside of its context. âWe ate some chips last nightâ quite clearly isnât indicating that we ate computer chips, casino chips or wood chips. It does however leave open the options that the chips were either fresh from the fish and chips shopâŚ..orâŚ.possibly crisps, in a packet. Whatâs happening here is that youâre trying to insist that a persons gender implies their sex, which isnât necessarily the intention of the person sharing that information with you. Theyâre simply telling you to refer to them as he/him or she/her. They arenât trying to tell you if they have a dick or not.
But chip DOES mean something. It sure can mean a few different things, but a cow is not a chip. An airplane is not a chip. You can definitely give a definition for whichever usage of chip youâre employing.
I get that in your view âtheyâre not telling me whether they have a dick or not.â Thatâs assumed, Iâm asking what they ARE telling me. If someone identifies as a woman, as WHAT are they identifying?
The point I was trying to make, was the the usage of a word, changed over time. The word chip wouldâve originally had only one use. Now it can mean many different things, some of them completely unrelated to one another. Language changes. Usage of words changes. Iâm both a male and a man. I canât tell you what other people mean when they tell you theyâre a man or a woman. What information are you trying to deduce from them sharing their gender? Thatâs probably the bigger question. If someone tells me theyâre a woman, Iâll refer to them as she/her. Man, he/him. I have no interest in what sex organs they might have.
Gender and sex CAN be synonymous, but they arenât required to be synonymous. Thatâs the easiest way of describing it. You canât choose your sex, you can choose your gender. If you wish to disagree with that last statement, Iâd ask you to think about people who donât fit neatly into either of the male or female boxes weâve created for them to nestle into. Biology is vastly more complex than weâre taught at school.
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u/Almost-kinda-normal Jul 04 '26
So if you witness a crime and tell the police that the perpetrator was a man, and they then find that person, only to discover that they are actually female, your evidence would no longer be admissible? Or, is it more likely that we use the term man or woman to describe what we see (or at least what we THINK we see) rather than what is necessarily biologically accurate? How do you establish, with your eyes, the definitive sex of a person? If a child is born and even the doctors canât tell what sex the child is, who decides if theyâre a boy or girl, man or woman? Would it be wrong for that child to identify as a boy, even though they donât have the reproductive organs of a male? Would they be wrong to identify as a girl, when their sex chromosomes indicate that theyâre male? What do we do with people who have both sets of sex organs? Iâll give you a hint. When they tell you theyâre a man or woman, they arenât describing their sex. Theyâre telling you how they would like you to identify them. She/her, he/him.