Originally Posted by
Latrinsorm
As demonstrated, your gotcha moment failed by about four years.
Yeah, sorry. I don't read every single thread posted here. In truth, the number of threads I do read is very limited. The whole men-competing-against-women thing did come up here, though, so I was curious how you felt about it.
Would you like to address how you disagreed with the source you cited, or how you disagreed with the definition you personally made up, or how neither you nor anyone else in this thread has been able to produce a definition for gender that rules out transgenderism without immediately contradicting itself?
I don't disagree with the fact that there are people who wish to use the term as described. I don't disagree that there are people who believe they've been abducted by aliens, either, but I don't believe them. Similarly, I don't agree with this new usage of gender.
If gender is to be based on behavior rather than biology, what exactly determines which behaviors belong to which gender? Fighting would traditionally be considered a masculine behavior, would it not? Yet here we are with women's MMA and boxing. I think it's safe to say that football was always considered a "man's sport", yet a women's league exists. We're not about to say that the gender of the women participating in those events is male, are we? There are male nurses. I think we could classify nursing as a feminine behavior or job. Hell, some men even stay at home and raise their children which has traditionally been a feminine behavior. Do they check the box for male when asked for their sex and female under gender (of which, I have yet to see a form asking for both. Not that they don't exist somewhere, but you know... new things)?
Is there a certain number or percentage of behavioral traits that need to apply before one can be considered something other than their typical, biological gender? It's fuckin ridiculous.
Or do you wanna say 'huhuhu latrin thinks guys should punch girls!!!" again, four years after I already addressed that inane point?
I don't think it's funny at all. Men shouldn't be fighting women regardless of what goes on inside their heads or what activities they participate in. You can call it inane if you want, but you aren't a woman being asked to fight that guy. Seems to me that most of them aren't exactly thrilled about it.
Question for the pro-transgender, gender fluid, anyone can be whatever they want to be, people out there: Should a male be granted a combat license to enter a MMA fight to pummel females because he 'identifies' as a woman?