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#27 Mar 27 2008 at 7:22 PM Rating: Decent
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Um... Yeah. I was talking about the sex of the person. Smash is the one who transformed the conversation into gender.


Because sex is as relevant to this discussion as macaroni and cheese is. I crazily gave you the benefit of the doubt, crediting you with actually meaning "gender" instead of something with literally zero relevance. I see my mistake in overestimating you. Thanks.

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#28 Mar 28 2008 at 5:13 AM Rating: Decent
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People make this mistake time in and time out. Even with their kids "you have a ***** and that makes you a boy." Not really, you're a boy and so you have a *****.

Sex is between the legs, gender is between the ears.



Let's be clear though. This case is about sex. The problem is that the word "gender" can mean different things. One of the definitions says its synonymous with sex. Another says it can mean a "cultural sexual identity" (which is a much more recent definition). I used the term sex. Smash responded by saying "gender". I assumed he was using the definition of gender that is synonymous with sex, because otherwise he was just throwing an irrelevant statement in there.


I absolutely agree that gender identity can be arbitrary. However, in this case, we're talking about someone getting pregnant, so it's "sex" that matters. This person can think of herself as a male, dress like a male, and act like a male, but at the end of the day, she's clearly a female.


Physically. Yes.

I'm not sure why it's a surprise either to anyone that someone who was born with a working uterus can have a baby. Probably just because it's never (is it never?) been done before.
#29 Mar 28 2008 at 3:46 PM Rating: Good
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Smasharoo wrote:

Um... Yeah. I was talking about the sex of the person. Smash is the one who transformed the conversation into gender.


Because sex is as relevant to this discussion as macaroni and cheese is.


Sex isn't relevant in a conversation about an article titled "Pregnant man stuns medical professionals", where the key factor is that the "man" is actually biologically female? Yeah. I think pointing out that the sex of the person in question is female is pretty darn relevant.

It's the gender of "male" that isn't in this case. Because, to paraphrase, it's what's between one's legs that determines if you get pregnant or not, not what's between your ears...


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I crazily gave you the benefit of the doubt, crediting you with actually meaning "gender" instead of something with literally zero relevance.


Funny! I was doing exactly the same thing for you. Since it should have been abundantly obvious that the relevant fact with regards to someone's ability to get pregnant is the actual biological sex of the person and not some other arbitrary gender identity, I assumed (falsely apparently) that you were using gender while actually meaning "sex".

Cause, that actually makes sense...
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#30 Mar 28 2008 at 3:59 PM Rating: Decent
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Sex isn't relevant in a conversation about an article titled "Pregnant man stuns medical professionals", where the key factor is that the "man" is actually biologically female? Yeah. I think pointing out that the sex of the person in question is female is pretty darn relevant.


You're wrong. Perhaps because one of us read the headline, and one of us read the story.

Sort of a handy metaphor for our respective philosophies of life, really.

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"Just because you put on a clown suit, doesn't mean that you don't still exist underneath.'"

Smiley: lol

ho ho. yes but to me it's still a clown regardless of how or why.
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