Posted on 12/05/2012 10:07:21 AM PST by Salman
Oooh, that was baaaaaaa’d.
:p
Somebody help me: What does his sexual orientation have to do with releasing classified info.
Any man who wants to have his penis mutilated to form a “vagina” is indeed unstable.
A mental perversion disorder.
Words have definitions. That isn’t liberal or conservative, it just is.
The term “Sex” is the literal term for the physical differences in a species. That is the 1st definition of “sex”:
SEX - noun: “1- either the male or female division of a species, especially as differentiated with reference to the reproductive functions.”
As opposed to Gender, which refers to linguistics:
GENDER - noun: (in many languages) a set of classes that together include all nouns, membership in a particular class being shown by the form of the noun itself or by the form or choice of words that modify, replace, or otherwise refer to the noun, as, in English, the choice of he to replace the man, of she to replace the woman, of it to replace the table, of it or she to replace the ship. The number of genders in different languages varies from 2 to more than 20; often the classification correlates in part with sex or animateness. The most familiar sets of genders are of three classes (as masculine, feminine, and neuter in Latin and German) or of two (as common and neuter in Dutch, or masculine and feminine in French and Spanish).
And other definitions of Gender:
“the behavioral, cultural, or psychological traits typically associated with one sex “
And of course, it also has the definition “Sex”, as it is considered a synonym. But that wasn’t it’s primary use.
And since language is defined by its cultural use (sadly, but always the case), it is useful to know that the term “gender” has a different shade of meaning than “sex”.
I guess if you think it is important, you can argue to defend the literal definition of “gender”. That doesn’t seem to me to be where the real war lies, and not understanding how the language is used today makes it hard to converse with the generation we need to reach.
It's also strictly a grammatical term. At least, it used to be.
The faggot Democrats sure know how to redefine words: "gay", "gender", "marriage", "honest"...
“not understanding how the language is used today makes it hard to converse with the generation we need to reach.”
The current generation doesn’t pull out a dictionary. The left is redefining terms at will and you want to argue the queens english.
Good Day
Yes, I was surprised my browser held still and deadpan on this one.
There were two aspects of this article in my mind when I posted.
1) The new information (new to me anyway) about Manning’s gender identity disorder. Which is quite a different matter that him simply being “gay”.
2) The showcasing, so to speak, of gender identity disorder and the resultant confusion as exemplified by the author.
It is a very informative article, if not exactly in the way the author intended it.
Actually, the term “gender identity disorder” is a misnomer, and is no longer used. The DSM V has replaced it with “gender dysphoria,” because, as the APA states, “replacing ‘disorder’ with ‘dysphoria’ in the diagnostic label is not only more appropriate and consistent with familiar clinical sexology terminology, it also removes the connotation that the patient is ‘disordered.’”
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