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| Freethinker |
“Gender” used to be used to refer to something that was arbitrarily designated as male or female like the gender of words in French or inanimate objects that fit together like plugs and sockets. “Sex” was the word to differentiate between the characteristics of living things. Unfortunately, “sex” became a shortcut word to refer to sexual intercourse and therefore modern Victorians found it distasteful to use in its original sense and instead expanded the usage of “gender.” That allowed them to congratulate themselves on their sophistication and sensitivity in avoiding a loaded word. In my own lifetime I have witnessed how the meanings of two perfectly good words have been warped into new applications. ► 6.4/93.6 “I regret that I am to now die in the belief, that the useless sacrifice of themselves by the generation of 1776, to acquire self-government and happiness to their country, is to be thrown away by the unwise and unworthy passions of their sons, and that my only consolation is to be, that I live not to weep over it.” — Thomas Jefferson | |||
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Oriental Redneck |
Not quite. XXY.  Q | |||
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The baby's parent, and the alien dude in the video afterwards, are truly fucking nuts. They are both either mentally ill from day 1, suffered some sort of traumatic event during childhood, or just generally had one hell of a messed up life prior to this point. Seems to me that Child Protective Services should be stepping in here. | |||
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| 10mm is The Boom of Doom  |
Gender as distinctly social rather than a synonym for sex and both being biologically based is only as it has been RE-defined by feminist, left-wing, gender benders. It is not supported by traditional definitions of even a few decade ago. The Random House Dictionary of the English Language 1969, defines gender as "1. non germaine, relating to foreign language grammar of nouns 2. sex: she always minced her words when referring to persons of the feminine gender." The World Book Dictionary 1976 defines gender "1. & 2. non germaine, relating to foreign language grammar of nouns 3. sex: the female gender" The Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition, 1989 provides the relevant definition, "1. & 2. non germaine, relating to foreign language grammar of nouns 3. sex, No mo gender been there but masculine, and femynyne, all remnaunte been no genders but of grace, in facultie of grammar. c1460" The OED does note that under feminist usage gender is often intended to emphasize the social and cultural, as opposed to biological, distinction between the sexes. This is comparable to when the GDCs RE-define racism as applying only to evil white people. I reject these leftist, self-serving RE-definitions utterly and completely. If we grant the left the authority to redefine the English language and meaning of words at whim, then we have already lost. God Bless and Protect the Once and Future President, Donald John Trump. | |||
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By this reasoning why not let the child decide race,nationality,gender,and also species.Maybe they decide they are an insect instead of a mammal. Maybe reality does not exist anymore, and everyone does that which is right in their own mind. _________________________ "Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." Mark Twain | |||
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| Freethinker |
XYY is another, as are other, even less common variations. I did a paper long ago on the “XYY Syndrome” that some attorneys attempted to turn into a defense by claiming that such “super males” were genetically driven to aggressiveness and irrational acts. I haven’t heard about anyone’s making that claim in decades, but who knows? It could make a comeback at any time. As I recall from that research, the Y chromosome is always “dominant” in terms of sexual development, and if a person possesses one Y, he will usually have male genitals and generally male characteristics regardless of how many X chromosomes are in the genome. ► 6.4/93.6 “I regret that I am to now die in the belief, that the useless sacrifice of themselves by the generation of 1776, to acquire self-government and happiness to their country, is to be thrown away by the unwise and unworthy passions of their sons, and that my only consolation is to be, that I live not to weep over it.” — Thomas Jefferson | |||
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| 10mm is The Boom of Doom |
IIRC, in his horror/sci-fi book The Bad Place, Dean Koontz uses XYY syndrome (and four undescended testicles) to explain the ultra violent rage of the antagonist Candy Pollard. God Bless and Protect the Once and Future President, Donald John Trump. | |||
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^here's another fun fact. In the sci-fi movie "Aliens III" the penal colony holding all the extremely violent offenders is designated a "YY Chromosome" facility at the very beginning of the movie. Their fictional way of linking YY to extremely violent (male) behavior. | |||
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^^^Going, going, gone. Homerun! ----------------------------- Guns are awesome because they shoot solid lead freedom. Every man should have several guns. And several dogs, because a man with a cat is a woman. Kurt Schlichter | |||
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I must jump in and immediately clarify that, although this was a reply to arcwelder's post, I am not implying that he is a "liberal/left-thinking" type. Just that it is the type of linguistic argument often used by them. I can see where this could be misinterpreted by the way I wrote it and because it was in direct response to his post. pre-emptive apologies if I create any misunderstanding.This message has been edited. Last edited by: Crom, "Crom is strong! If I die, I have to go before him, and he will ask me, 'What is the riddle of steel?' If I don't know it, he will cast me out of Valhalla and laugh at me." | |||
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| I believe in the principle of Due Process  |
Look what happened to a boy named Sue! Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me. When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown | |||
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I agree with this. I disagree with Arc. Gender is a definition not an attribute. Masculinity and femininity are attributes. You can not decide your sex, period. You can however decide to act masculine or feminine. Jesse Sic Semper Tyrannis | |||
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Too weird for words. | |||
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If 'gender' is the term we're going to use on public identification items, such as birth certificates, driver or concealed weapon licenses, and/or other such official identification, then that's the term which needs to refer to the biological stuff, not the mental/emotional stuff. I don't care how you want to think of yourself, but I do care that your public records accurately describe your basic attributes including whether you're originally male or female. If I can change such information on my public records, what else can they not prevent me from changing? If I'm 6'4", can I legally put down that I associate with being 3'6"? If my eyes are naturally brown, can I lawfully put "green" instead? If I'm of caucasian descent, can I apply for assistance programs and scholarships designated for people of other descent lawfully? Where does the line get drawn? To me, this is exactly the same as allowing islamic women to wear full face covering on driver license ID photos. Unacceptable. It's a public record that needs to be based on reality, or based as closely in reality as possible. ------------- $ | |||
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I'm a pediatrician.How transgender ideology has infiltrated my field and produced large-scale child abuse I encourage you to read the entire article, it's not too long. Much of my career as a physician has been spent in developing and implementing practice guidelines based on the most sound scientific evidence (usually large-scale randomized clinical trials); this is now the standard in all of medicine. Except where political ideology intervenes as in this field. But my horror at this isn't just professional, it's personal, as I have a niece who has decided her 6-year-old daughter is a "he" now. _________________________ “Remember, remember the fifth of November!" | |||
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The idiocy in this country has become unbounded. "Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it." L.Tolstoy "A government is just a body of people, usually, notably, ungoverned." Shepherd Book | |||
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| 10mm is The Boom of Doom |
When my youngest was six, he declared that he was a robot, or a dinosaur, or a robot dinosaur. Now he is 13 and wants to program robots. No word on the dinosaur part. God Bless and Protect the Once and Future President, Donald John Trump. | |||
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| Staring back from the abyss  |
I have an idea that is far better than abusing and mutilating children. If by age 16, the children still insist that they are trapped in the wrong body, they are placed under psychiatric care. ________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton. | |||
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| Purveyor of Fine Avatars  |
Both of you seem to be failing to understand that Arc was defending my statement (second post) when Fenris refuted it. You are actually both in agreement with the way Arc defines it but seem to have taken it out of context. "I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet raised to an alarming extent by Hollywood and Madison Avenue, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak!" - Calvin, "Calvin & Hobbes" | |||
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The entire lot of these people are bat shit crazy. | |||
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