“dragonfucker” was not a gender because it implied the existence of literal dragons
Why can’t a gender be defined by a relationship to something that doesn’t exist? To the impossible? Genders are social constructs, and fiction and myth exist in the social. Sex, sure, that needs reality, but why should gender?
Why can’t a gender be defined by a relationship to something that doesn’t exist? To the impossible? Genders are social constructs, and fiction and myth exist in the social.
Gender is not a social construct, gender labels are social constructs. There’s a difference. What you’re proposing is reducing gender to a favorite word rather than making any attempt to categorize trends in gender identity.
Sex, sure, that needs reality,
If gender doesn’t need that reality, why should sex? If someone identifies as the male sex, are you allowed to think they’re incorrect under any conditions?
Why are you complaining? You’ve won the argument, you successfully pointed out that the consequences of my belief that sex must be based on reality could be disastrous, and thereby changed my mind. I realised that if I ever met a trans person who said their sex was based on something unreal, I wouldn’t be so reckless as to contradict them. Thank you for that warning, you’ve enlightened me.
Why can’t a gender be defined by a relationship to something that doesn’t exist? To the impossible? Genders are social constructs, and fiction and myth exist in the social. Sex, sure, that needs reality, but why should gender?
Gender is not a social construct, gender labels are social constructs. There’s a difference. What you’re proposing is reducing gender to a favorite word rather than making any attempt to categorize trends in gender identity.
If gender doesn’t need that reality, why should sex? If someone identifies as the male sex, are you allowed to think they’re incorrect under any conditions?
I guess not, because that would be tyranny. You’ve convinced me that sex is a social construct as well as gender.
Lord.
Are any words allowed to have meaning, or is language itself tyranny?
Why are you complaining? You’ve won the argument, you successfully pointed out that the consequences of my belief that sex must be based on reality could be disastrous, and thereby changed my mind. I realised that if I ever met a trans person who said their sex was based on something unreal, I wouldn’t be so reckless as to contradict them. Thank you for that warning, you’ve enlightened me.