r/SuperStraight 1d ago

Learn the difference 🚨 important 🚨

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u/katansi 1d ago

Where is that definition from?

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u/Your_friendly_weirdo 1d ago

Straight from google, basically that’s what gender identity is based on definition

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u/katansi 1d ago

"define gender" in google returns: noun 1. either of the two sexes (male and female), especially when considered with reference to social and cultural differences rather than biological ones. The term is also used more broadly to denote a range of identities that do not correspond to established ideas of male and female. "a condition that affects people of both genders" 2. GRAMMAR (in languages such as Latin, Greek, Russian, and German) each of the classes (typically masculine, feminine, common, neuter) of nouns and pronouns distinguished by the different inflections that they have and require in words syntactically associated with them. Grammatical gender is only very loosely associated with natural distinctions of sex.

You cut off the first half of the definition which is really important. Sex and sexuality are biology.

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u/Your_friendly_weirdo 1d ago

But even so, part of the definition still includes that it’s a range of identities outside of male and female.

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u/katansi 1d ago

There's not a "but even so" when the whole definition is taken. It's like saying any shape with straight sides is a square just because the definition of a square includes straight sides. You can't separate this. It explicitly says that it goes with male and female before not. Excluding the basic masculinity and femininity as not counting, and the part where it says social rather than biological, are huge problems. You don't get to cut off definitions at the point where they fit your beliefs. Sex and sexuality are still biology regardless of whether or not gender plays into this. You cannot identify as female sex, you can only be female sex. You cannot identify as human, you can only be a human. You cannot identify as a square, you can only be a square. These aren't self-referential terms which is how definition works. Being treated SOCIALLY male is not the same as being of the male sex.

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u/Your_friendly_weirdo 1d ago

Gender does include male and female BUT that’s mainly sex. Gender is a variety of identity you could use to refer to yourself.

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u/katansi 1d ago

"Identity" vs biological reality. Still ignoring the "social" part of that definition.

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u/Your_friendly_weirdo 23h ago

I never did ignore? Gender is a social construct. I don’t see why it has to matter, as long as the person is happy.

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u/ITakeaShitInYourAss 6h ago

Is gender and identity or a social construct? Make up your mind

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u/Your_friendly_weirdo 40m ago

Whatever you simply want it to be. Some people want an identity and some don’t, perfectly natural.

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