White Guy Self-Identifies as Filipino Woman

[The Grand Nudger]

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.

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I'm not worked up at all, btw.  I just like words to mean what they mean, and for them to represent something real.  

It does "mean what it means", and cultural normatives are very real.  So, check and check, right?

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 nothing ambiguous about what the term refers to.  That was the whole point of it's use..before it was used this way..there -was- ambiguity both within and between cultures. It has little use for you, but a great deal of use in specificity. Hilariously, before the term was used in this way the only terms which could convey the meaning were a laundry list of social pejoratives...I'll be employing two below. See if you spot them, when you do..take a moment to consider your reaction to either.

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.

Or, shot in the dark... you're getting pissy at words because they don't support your brilliant objections to words.

DNA doesn't determine gender. The term gender explicitly and specifically refers to things -not- determined by ones DNA. More accurately, it refers to expectations of a given sex within a given culture. If you were significantly effeminate, you would not be gender conforming even if your wardrobe was full of flannel and denim, you went to monster truck rallies every saturday, and you were perfectly happy with your penis. The end.