gigglemuffinz said:
Your strictly biological reading of male and female entirely ignores that for human beings, gender and sex have become two different functions. My statement remains true simply as a statement of gender. It remains true as a product of our society, and our language. The English language at least will continue to find the statement I make true, and in a support site, I will take every means available to me, and things that have helped in the past find happiness.. and I will do everything I can to help. There is nothing harmful with focusing on one truth if it brings you happiness.
You don't know what the word gender means, and that is the issue here. Even in today's definition of the word gender you are using it wrong. You are making up definitions that do not exist. That isn't how language works gigglemuffinz. You can't just make up new definitions to argue your point. I am actually already separating sex and gender, even though you are claiming I am not. I have a very different view of what gender is than you cause I actually follow the dictionary like one typically is suppose to.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gender
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/gender
What your physical biological body is, has nothing to do with gender. Psychological traits, the way you dress and behave, is what gender has to do with.
The issue here ... isn't me. It's you. You are misinterpreting on what gender and sex is. You are using definition that don't even exist because you made them up. No one follows them except you.
Also, I would like you to note specifically the oxford dictionary. I am going to quote it here and highlight something of great importance for you.
"The state of being male or female (
typically used with reference to social and cultural differences rather than biological ones)"
You are trying to combine sex and gender into one word. You are trying to make biological differences be included into gender, and i'm sorry, but that isn't how this works. Biological difference has to do with your sex, not gender. It doesn't matter if you say you are talking about your gender when you are talking about your body. You are literally making no sense and using words wrong.
You may be stuck on comparing us to animals, or ports where male port goes into female port.. but I consider humans beyond such simplicity. That's part of what makes humans beautiful. That logic doesn't work as well with us, because logic itself doesn't work so well with us. Humans are spontaneous and will always surprise you. Humans are constantly illogical and we find beauty in it.
No, see you are making assumptions. I disagree simply with you specifically. I am not saying humans are that simple, I am saying you are just wrong in the way you are trying to explain things.
I am gendered female, and therefore any body I own is in fact a girl's body
No .. it's not. Your gender is female, your body is male. Stop trying to combine sex and gender. You have no idea what you are talking about. You are making things up. That isn't how it works. Your physical body has nothing to do with gender. So stop it.
even if it's not female from the way you choose to view things.
Because it's not.
WE defined what male and female meant we can adjust them however we see fit.
No we did not. Nature defined it.
We can add extra meanings and change it to suit our changing world. We already have. Sex and gender are already considered separate.
I know they are, and you are using them wrong.
And yes, I find an unnecessary clinging to this biological view of things when it comes to gender performance unhelpful and outdated.
I agree, and I never said I was clinging to simply biological views. I was simply pointing out how your own personal views are wrong according to all and every definition that currently exists of what gender and sex is.
It will continue on this trend as the years go on and science will continue to make new strides to make the lines between the sexes far more blurry.
No, science isn't going to blur the lines of sexes, it will blur the lines of gender. Sex has to do with biology ... science isn't blurring that because that was something decided by nature, not science.
To me, even your fact will continue to get more and more unhelpful as the time goes on.
Really, my views? Unhelpful? When you are the one who hasn't even learned what the words she is using even means?
It may surprise you, but you and I actually agree a lot on probably many things when it comes to sex and gender. The issue here is ... you are making things up and adding things that no one else has but yourself. Saying if your gender is female, then your body is female ... NO cause your body has to do with your sex ... not your gender.
It amazes me how a person who can go on about sex and gender doesn't even seem to understand the differences between the two.
And I do think continuing to enforce such simplicity is something that I'll continue to strive against.
And I do think continuing to enforce such ignorance is something I will continue to strive against.