Where I work, a young male co-worker and his female wife are expecting a baby. I congratulated my co-worker twice. The first time I asked if they knew and wanted to share the SEX of the baby. He responded they did not know the GENDER of the baby yet (his emphasis on gender). The second time I congratulated him, I didn't ask about the baby's sex again, but he again emphasized that they don't know the gender of the baby yet.
Since he emphasized it twice, I realized he might have been insulted when I asked about the baby's sex. Hmmm...also, it occurred to me that schools are teaching the young to use gender instead of sex. So I looked up the definitions of both words. Sex is the correct term when referring to the biology of a fetus. Gender refers to the societal and cultural "range of identities that do not correspond to established ideas of male and female". So this young father-to-be already is thinking in terms of not treating his baby as male or female.
Planning for child abuse.
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Gender refers to the societal and cultural “range of identities that do not correspond to established ideas of male and female”. So this young father-to-be already is thinking in terms of not treating his baby as male or female.53”
Keep in kind that the left is perverting language as well. Websters 1828 dictionary shows that they took a grammatical construct and are applying it to fixed biology.
Gender
GEN’DER, noun [Latin genus, from geno, gigno; Gr.to beget, or to be born; Eng. kind. Gr. a woman, a wife; Sans. gena, a wife, and genaga, a father. We have begin from the same root. See Begin and Can.]
1. Properly, kind; sort.
2. A sex, male or female. Hence,
3. In grammar, a difference in words to express distinction of sex; usually a difference of termination in nouns, adjectives and participles, to express the distinction of male and female. But although this was the original design of different terminations, yet in the progress of language, other words having no relation to one sex or the other, came to have genders assigned them by custom. Words expressing males are said to be of the masculine gender; those expressing females, of the feminine gender; and in some languages, words expressing things having no sex, are of the neuter or neither gender
GEN’DER, verb transitive To beget; but engender is more generally used.
GEN’DER, verb intransitive To copulate; to breed. Leviticus 19:19.
The arrogance and narcissism of these bio(logy)-phobes - who are in the process of not only changing the language, but eventually will compel all others to do the same ... and will use companies and the law to do it.
At my workplace, I am starting to see the (He/Him) and (She/her) crap after peoples names in email or in instant message tools. When I see that, I will only refer to them by their actual name... never use the pronouns. Right now it is implicitly “voluntary” ... but it is subtle as they are using it also to identify who is in the “cultural pogrom” and who will need to be forced into it or let go. I see at some point they will make it mandatory. Big Tech will help them out ... e.g. MS will upgrade their software someday and require w/o exception each user to upgrade their “profile” and select the appropriate bio-phobe gender.
I guess I'm one to push these sort of issues. I'd probably reply " I'd be hoping for a boy so I had someone to rough house with" or "I would like a girl just like my wife."
Until the "woke" era, "gender" was mostly confined to the field of linguistics. Now even conservatives are starting to use the term in lieu of "sex."
Even here on FreeRepublic, many will use the incorrect term of “gender” when they mean “sex”.
Also, using “Black” instead of “black”, “sexual orientation” instead of “sexual preference”, “undocumented immigrant” instead of “illegal immigrant (or alien)”, etc. All of these misuses of terms play right into the hands of the left.
If you coworker’s wife has a boy, I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if he wants to have a takeadickfromme operation performed on him before he even reaches school age.