Posted on 02/21/2014 3:06:00 PM PST by NYer
Strictly FYI and for a good laugh ... followed by a healthy cry, ping!
(Facebook expands male and female to 58 customizable genders)
Just the beginning of Facebooks “problems”.. or the end.. makes little difference..
Looks like LGBTA is going to have to change their Acronym.
LBGTAAABCCCCCCCCCCFFGGGGGIMMNNNOPTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT
The following are the 58 gender options identified by ABC News:
Agender
Androgyne
Androgynous
Bigender
Cis
Cisgender
Cis Female
Cis Male
Cis Man
Cis Woman
Cisgender Female
Cisgender Male
Cisgender Man
Cisgender Woman
Female to Male
FTM
Gender Fluid
Gender Nonconforming
Gender Questioning
Gender Variant
Genderqueer
Intersex
Male to Female
MTF
Neither
Neutrois
Non-binary
Other
Pangender
Trans
Trans*
Trans Female
Trans* Female
Trans Male
Trans* Male
Trans Man
Trans* Man
Trans Person
Trans* Person
Trans Woman
Trans* Woman
Transfeminine
Transgender
Transgender Female
Transgender Male
Transgender Man
Transgender Person
Transgender Woman
Transmasculine
Transsexual
Transsexual Female
Transsexual Male
Transsexual Man
Transsexual Person
Transsexual Woman
Two-Spirit
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2014/02/heres-a-list-of-58-gender-options-for-facebook-users/
This is why, except for its proper place in language or jocularisms (cf. Fowler’s Modern English Usage, 2nd Ed.), I avoid the word “gender”. The word “sex” is not a societal construct. You can argue whether it is in the head, someplace else, or all of the above, but it is real.
Marriage equality for kielbasa! It will happen if kielbasa can join forces with the more powerful bacon lobby.
I insist that the term VACANT be added to that long list, as there are doubtless MANY many Vacant Americans to whom Fazedbook is a second home!
I wonder if there is the category “I am what I eat.”?
For today that mean’s I’m a bacon-egg-cheese-milk-coffee-chickennoodlesoup-cracker-ian
I guess I would qualify as “Other.” Paul Simon had “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover.” I guess this is “58 Ways to Name Your Pervert.”
Bacon. Now *there* is an alternate gender choice for the masses!
Wow, 58 different genders????
Here I thought I was “with it” because I know what “LGBT” stands for. But LGBT is only 4. Then adding in regular male and female, I’m stuck oon only six possibilities.
Send me to reeducation camp right now. Implicit in all of this is that we’re supposed to be liberal towards all of those who choose these outlandish gender descriptions.
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Tuna fish on rye.
one comment that got my attention
Asok Asus • 8 days ago
“Wow! That’s more genders than Baskin-Robbins has ice cream flavors!”
I’ll accept an expansion to three: man, woman, and pervert.
Last year, my daughter was in a college class and someone correct the Prof. when he said LBGT, a student took offense and said it was LBGTA, other student took offense and said it was LBGTQAA.
At this point my daughter said loudly “they should create an Alphabet song”. Only one other person laughed and he quickly caught himself as the class went completely silent.
[ ]xx
[ ]xy
[ ]I have an otherwise unspecified chromosome abnormality
The only reason they made all these “choices” is to cover the fact that they deleted “male” and “female” as options.
Now, you can call yourself anything you want. Unless, of course, you want to call yourself “male” or “female.”
And look at the rank hypocrisy - on the one hand, words make a difference. So that’s why thy offer 58 different words and phrases, because words make a difference, and everyone should have the right to use the words THEY want to use to describe themselves.
EXCEPT people who want to describe themselves as “male” or “female.” For those people their “right” to describe themselves is DENIED.
In fact, the obvious implication is that these common terms of “male” and “female” are somehow now OFFENSIVE - which means that people who want them are ABUSERS.
Naked, liberal totalitarianism right in your Facebook.
MTF
They forgot WTF!
More choices than a chinese restaurant.
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