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To: Fiji Hill; Jack Hydrazine

Gender is not how you feel. It’s a grammatical term.


33 posted on 05/28/2013 1:01:02 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Yes, I know.

Sex is male, female/boy, girl/man, woman.

Gender is grammatical term - masculine, neuter, or feminine - that applies to words.

But Leftists love to hijack words for their own agenda.


35 posted on 05/28/2013 1:05:24 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (IÂ’m not a Republican, I'm a Conservative! Pubbies haven't been conservative since before T.R.)
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To: nickcarraway; Fiji Hill; Jack Hydrazine
Gender is not how you feel. It’s a grammatical term.

True, but it's not just a grammatical term. "Gender" also refers to standards and behaviors associated with the sexes. That's why we can say certain qualities are "masculine," even if the person doing them is a woman. These judgments are socially determined and variable, while sex is genetically determined and fixed.

In my opinion, our present culture divides "masculine" and "feminine" in very limited and unproductive ways, and this contributes to the situation in which we seem to have many people, especially young people, socially defining themselves as "neuter" ... what we'd call "metrosexual" for a man and ... I'm not sure what the term is for women, but "slovenly" often comes to mind, when I see women in the Walmart in pajama pants and hoodies.

All virtuous and patriotic attitudes and behaviors should be expected of both sexes - "neuter" in gender. Something is wrong when a courageous and determined woman is described as "ballsy"!

37 posted on 05/28/2013 1:11:53 PM PDT by Tax-chick (The Commie Plot Theory of Everything. Give it a try - you'll be surprised how often it makes sense.)
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