• Replies 129 replies
  • Subscribers 117 subscribers
  • Views 13096 views
  • Users 0 members are here
Options
Related
Hints and tips
  • To quote someone's message, first select/highlight the relevant text, and then use the Quote button that appears
  • To "mention" someone, type @ followed by the start of the forum name, and choose from the list; that person will get a notification of being mentioned

What's gender?

Deleted user

A discussion in this forum made me ask myself this question, what's gender?. I googled it but what I found there didn't make much sense to me. I always thought that the gender of the other person doesn't tell me much about who they are. It just informs me about the appropriate pronouns that this person wants me to use with them. Frankly I don't care about figuring out my gender. I was born in a woman's body and I never felt like it's the wrong one. I think I'd feel the same if I was born in a man's body. I have never spent time thinking about this part of myself because I never thought that it's important enough to me. I'll be the same person anyway, no? I don't think it would change much about who I am... Can anyone share how they understand gender?

Parents

  • I haven't read any of the replies, so I apologize in advance if I offend anyone

    Pronouns are DANGEROUS

    And I am not saying they are bad because it helps transgender people feel included. But what people don't understand, is that TRUE, REAL transgender people represent 0. 1% of the population. Will we reveal our private feelings about ourselves only for less than 5% of the population? 

    Woke people claim they are forwarding diversity, but let me get this straight, your "friend" has asserted that you HAVE to use pronouns? Where in the world does that include how YOUR freedom to reveal YOUR private life? I don't know how you feel about yourself, but there is ABSOLUTELY NO OBLIGATION for you to use pronouns. NONE. And if people say you are being discriminatory then it just proves the point that they are guilt-tripping you to accept THEIR view through HARCEMENT and INSULTS.

    So much for "diversity" right

  • in reply to Kittera

    Well, now I'm thinking about why we have pronouns in the first place haha. I guess they are useful to refer to a third person?. Otherwise people would have to use my name all the time, no? Also, how would it look like in literature and poems ext.. it's interesting to think about how things will change if we change this simple thing. I don't care about what pronoun people use with me. Only the pronoun (it) would offend me a little. Otherwise, I don't really care. Thank you for sharing. Even tho to be frank, I didn't completely get it but I know that it's hard for me to understand stuff sometimes.

Reply
  • in reply to Kittera

    Well, now I'm thinking about why we have pronouns in the first place haha. I guess they are useful to refer to a third person?. Otherwise people would have to use my name all the time, no? Also, how would it look like in literature and poems ext.. it's interesting to think about how things will change if we change this simple thing. I don't care about what pronoun people use with me. Only the pronoun (it) would offend me a little. Otherwise, I don't really care. Thank you for sharing. Even tho to be frank, I didn't completely get it but I know that it's hard for me to understand stuff sometimes.

Children
No Data