People have a sex, not a gender. Things have a gender.
Once you start substituting gender for sex, you have lost the argument.
The left has hijacked the language well.
Agreed, so whole-heartedly. It may seem like a small thing, but it’s not, or the left wouldn’t have been fighting for decades to redefine words, declare certain words verboten, and constantly move the goalposts on words to keep their opposition on their toes. They have rigged it so that before we can even have the debate on a given issue, we have to learn the politically correct terms-as defined by the left, which has this power through their lock on media and academia-that are “allowed”. We have got to stop dismissing this tactic as a small petty issue, to be gotten out of the way by just succumbing t it.
See the morphing of “colored people” to “people of color” as one example of the absurdity, dangerous absurdity that it is, and all the permutations we went through to arrive at this phrase. It’s hard to understand how our leadership and spokespeople don’t see the importance of this, of the left’s ownership of defining the narrative, even before debate of the issue is begun. Another example is the morphing of “liberal” to “progressive”. I use “leftist” right now, but in light of all the accusations of “nazi” at the right, I’d like to see the right begin to use the term “Stalinist” when discussing the left.
And “gays” are not gay-that’s another hijacking of a perfectly good and useful word. My term is “sodomites”.
One which makes me laugh in spite of myself-the use of “African-American” for black people, any black people, even black people from countries other than America. I’ve even heard media people misuse this term.