University of Southern Maine students demand professor be replaced for saying only two sexes exist

understanding basic biology has nothing to do with any conspiracies, that's some world class drama right there. we've plummeted because we've allowed standards to drop to help stupid people meet a low and basic criteria.

 

I asked for a dictionary entry and he provided a research paper. The point under debate is of the woke morons actively and abruptly changed the definition of a common English word. So please, provide a definition from a dictionary prior to last decade that demonstrates that gender and sex are not synonyms. I'll wait...
BTW, your little barb at the end is hilariously ironic. LMAO.

 

This is the major rub: applying cd8ed et, al definition renders the words man and woman unless. We've never needed a special pronoun to describe an effeminate male or masculine female before and we don't need it now.

 

I have already explained why the definition changed and what groups led that change.

Everything else is irrelevant

I am glad you found it amusing

 

You haven't explained anything. The wokesters are wrong, and the nation overwhelmingly agrees with me. With that said, I encourage you to keep fighting the good fight. It's undermining your goal of getting donkeys elected. And fewer dems in power is good for the country.

 

Why would there be a dictionary on the internet that was written before 2000? LOL where do you think the research paper got their definition!

Here is the definition from my own 1975 sixth edition paperback OED
gender: Grammatical classification (or one of the classes) of objects roughly corresponding to the two sexes and sexlessness ( see MASCULINE, FEMININE, NEUTER, COMMON)

 

Your own link states "The grammatical sense is attested in English from late 14c. Jespersen ("Philosophy of Grammar," 1924) defines grammatical gender by reference to the Indo-European distinction of masculine, feminine, neuter, "whether the division be based on the natural division into two sexes, or on that between animate and inanimate, or on something else.", Neuter"

 

I bet there is one. Care to wager that one exists online?

Please post the entire definition. It's telling that you would cherry pick.

Here's one I found:
Gen"der (jĕn"dẽr), n. [OF. genre, gendre (with excrescent d.), F. genre, fr. L. genus, generis, birth, descent, race, kind, gender, fr. the root of genere, gignere, to beget, in pass., to be born, akin to E. kin. See Kin, and cf. Generate, Genre, Gentle, Genus.]

1. Kind; sort. [Obs.] "One gender of herbs." Shak.

2. Sex, male or female. [Obs. or Colloq.]

3. (Gram.) A classification of nouns, primarily according to sex; and secondarily according to some fancied or imputed quality associated with sex.



Gender is a grammatical distinction and applies to words only. Sex is natural distinction and applies to living objects.R. Morris.

 

Post that link to an English dictionary written pre 1980

 

What purpose would pronouns that describe a person's personality even serve in common language?

 

Do you think I'm lying? Or is your google-fu substandard?

 

Still waiting for your link,

 

"Neuter" is quoted in the same context as masculine and feminine which unsurprisingly you ignored because it proves you wrong

 

Find it yourself. I've made my point. This idea of non-binary, fluid "gender identity" is a very modern construct.

 

Oh ffs, in what way would nueter be used in the English language in the context of a human?

 

Well said!

 

I don't think charitable donations to non-profits should be charged with taxes.

I also don't think anybody should be forced to comply with mandated requirements under the guise of public accommodation. Im not sure I understand why the government feels they have a right to dictate requirements for accommodation within privately held property.

You're calling these things "protections" and "special accommodations" which they aren't. These are mandates and forceful requirements which usurp the freedoms and rights of churches.

This position is in alignment with my initial reaction. I want to let people have their rights, without restriction. I don't believe one person can find rights by reducing others rights.

 

Lol neuter means neither male or female! Why do you think the the word neuter is in the definition! Face it, you are wrong

 

I didn't think you would answer my question. Face it, you are wrong.

 

Ah the old childish insult to go with the attitude. Choice.
So you have no idea what is involved other than that superficially these people fit a certain stereotype. You don't even know what you're supporting be done to people.

I offer that you should google it for yourself. Google the numerous surgeries, over the course of a lifetime, as well as torturous **** they have to do outpatient at home, to turn a dick into a horror movie semblance of a *****. FFS they are required to insert a rod in the hole to keep it open occasionally. Many tend to lose sensation in their genitalia.

 

Do you have a source showing that the nation overwhelmingly agree with you that gender should mean sex?

 

Should all public accommodations be dissolved?
Should an organization be able to claim religious preference and not have to submit tax documents like other non-profits?

 

Why would I even attempt to find one? You would only reject the source. I like that you think I'm wrong, and I hope every running dem makes woke issues a cornerstone of their campaign.

 

Lol ok
I hope every running Republican makes fascism and theocracy the cornerstone of theirs

Thanks for this illuminating conversation

 

Sure, because fascism and theocracy are not actually facets of Republican policy. Wokeness on the other hand, as demonstrated by this thread, actually IS important to the left. My opinion is that's its not so important to the average dem voter though. I think most people tend to not like to be told that they are using a word that has had a specific meaning for generations incorrectly. But what do I know?