Posted: Sun May 06, 2018 7:57 pm
Thanatttynia wrote:Mike the Progressive wrote:
To some extent, it gets annoying.
I mean OK, you're a male trapped in a females body or vice versa, cool.. But when you have people who dont identify as either male/female, or are male male but don't want to be referred to as a male without any intention of correcting their gender, it's just, ugh.
Idk. It's like people who refer to themselves as act-tors who in reality live in California working at denny's as a waiter while taking "drama" classes weekly.
At some point you got to realize, no, you're really not regardless of how much you want to be.
That's an understandable position to hold. I get that some gender-non-conforming people can be annoying, but that's true of the general populace - some people are annoying. It doesn't take much effort, though, to call someone by their preferred pronouns and, if they're being sincere, that small action might save them from a lot of unnecessary mental anguish.
Bit confused by your last point? Gender isn't 'real' (i.e. biological, unchangeable, absolute.) It's a societal construct like race or sexuality; therefore I would say you can literally be any gender you want. The only reason we assume there are two is that 99% of people fall into one of two biological categories, but sex and gender aren't the same thing so I'm not ultimately convinced we should keep this outdated system on the basis of that.
Sorry, meant sex. Not gender.