White Guy Self-Identifies as Filipino Woman

[bennyboy]

This is another one of those cases where people take a word, use it exactly opposite to what it meant, and then when enough do it, they say "well, that's what it means.  Look in the dictionary."

"Literally" is one example.  People have used it wrongly so much, that one of its meanings is now "figuratively."  That's literally the dumbest thing that's happened, ever in history!

"Gender" is another.  Gender comes from genus, "to beget," and it describes the role one has / is expected to have in the begetting of new human beings that is typical for 90 or 95% of the species.  It's not an insult, it's just what that word means-- were you born with the precursors to a sperm injection system, or a sperm receptacle / baby incubating system?

Ahem....

gen·der
ˈjendər/Submit
noun
1.
the state of being male or female (typically used with reference to social and cultural differences rather than biological ones).
"traditional concepts of gender"
synonyms: sex
"variables included age, income, and gender"

Tell us more about what gender means, and how you strongly object to words being used to grant specificity and clarity to a subject with vast overlap?  Terrific was originally coined from the word terror..do you object to my kids teachers putting "terrific job" and a couple of green stars on the english homework?  Language changes Benny, you should know that.  If it changes for the better, allowing us to communicate more complex and subtle concepts.....I can;t imagine -why- you would get so worked up about that.  Isn't that language working as intended?

This is a good example of the process of the "evolution" of a word, by which it is forced to mean what it didn't mean due to social influence.

I'm not worked up at all, btw. I just like words to mean what they mean, and for them to represent something real. The current social clime is pretty much in the process of tearing down meanings and replacing them with enough ambiguity for everybody to think whatever they want about things, without regard to considerations of reality. I'd say at this point, the term "gender" literally means nothing at all, and it therefore has very little use as a descriptor.

There's a reason that English words are built out of Latin-- it's because the person who coined a term was trying to convey a particular meanings.