What is Gender?

[o_O.Q]

the-pi-guy said:

o_O.Q said:

"These four should be sufficient. All the others are people who struggle to find  their identity, so they try to push themselves in categories. I don't think this is very useful (especially since a lot of them basically mean the same thing), and I also don't think it's a very healthy thing for these people to do."

so if someone wants to be a unicorn, for example, the other people around them should be expected to play along with that?

There are only a few ways that people are "expected to play along with". 

One of them is calling people what they ask to be called:

For some reason everyone in society is perfectly okay with respecting what people want to be called.  Jon instead of Jonathon, Abbie instead of Abigail, Nick instead of Nicholas, but suddenly when people are talking about pronouns, then suddenly they're being unreasonable.  

Another is respecting what bathroom people use:

What I think is interesting is that suddenly people are wanting government intervention to enforce what bathroom gets used. Even some of the same people who talk about how "gun free zones" only affect the people who are responsible gun owners, don't seem to apply the exact same logic to bathrooms and suddenly think that bathrooms signs are capable of stopping people who could sexually assault women.  (Somehow a lot of people are comfortable with these supposed sexual predators being in the same bathroom as their boys).  

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There are only a few ways that people are "expected to play along with". 

One of them is calling people what they ask to be called:

For some reason everyone in society is perfectly okay with respecting what people want to be called."

well that's true but it has never been the case that you were expected to lie to yourself in the process of doing so, which i think is the problem people are having here

and there are other ways people are being expected to distort reality such as the thread i recently got banned for where its now becoming policy that the idea of birthing children is being disconnected from women, its a little disingenuous to argue that its just naming conventions that are facing pressure

"What I think is interesting is that suddenly people are wanting government intervention to enforce what bathroom gets used."

i honestly don't care about that, as i've said before government should be much smaller and have way less power and people individually should have more responsibility over their lives instead of ceding it all to government

that's why government can step in now and tell women not to abort their babies, because it has too much power and influence over the lives of people, when really i'd think people would want to have more control over their lives, obviously that means less aid from government but more freedom and people have to decide which they value more(that's my take on it at least)