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#452 Mar 20 2013 at 5:06 PM Rating: Default
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I'm sorry, i will spell this out for you: No, i don't actually agree with gbaji's main point. I do agree with him that should is not the correct word, but not for the same reason he does.

By the way, i said gender, not sex. I understand if you don't really know what that means. Most people don't, it seems.


Let me clarify the obvious to you. I'm full aware of the two stances, hence the preface of my post. However, your last statement insinuated that the proper grammatical usage would favor your point. Ironically, that usage would benefit Gbaji's point more than your point, hence the reason why he mentioned it in the first place.

By the way, I know the difference between gender/sex, as I know how to use a dictionary. 'Tis you that believes sex laws should be affected by one's gender choice.

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I'm sorry, i will spell this out for you: No, i don't actually agree with gbaji's main point. I do agree with him that should is not the correct word, but not for the same reason he does.

By the way, i said gender, not sex. I understand if you don't really know what that means. Most people don't, it seems.


Let me clarify the obvious to you. I'm full aware of the two stances, hence the preface of my post. However, your last statement insinuated that the proper grammatical usage would favor your point. Ironically, that usage would benefit Gbaji's point more than your point, hence the reason why he mentioned it in the first place.

By the way, I know the difference between gender/sex, as I know how to use a dictionary. 'Tis you that believes sex laws should be affected by one's gender choice.


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I'm sorry, i will spell this out for you: No, i don't actually agree with gbaji's main point. I do agree with him that should is not the correct word, but not for the same reason he does.

By the way, i said gender, not sex. I understand if you don't really know what that means. Most people don't, it seems.


Let me clarify the obvious to you. I'm full aware of the two stances, hence the preface of my post. However, your last statement insinuated that the proper grammatical usage would favor your point. Ironically, that usage would benefit Gbaji's point more than your point, hence the reason why he mentioned it in the first place.

By the way, I know the difference between gender/sex, as I know how to use a dictionary. 'Tis you that believes sex laws should be affected by one's gender choice.


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#455 Mar 20 2013 at 6:20 PM Rating: Decent
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By the way, I know the difference between gender/sex, as I know how to use a dictionary.
Lol, a dictionary isn't going to properly explain such a complex thing. That's not even what a dictionary is for.

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Can't we get an actual cripple fight instead? I bet that's more entertaining.
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By the way, I know the difference between gender/sex, as I know how to use a dictionary.
Lol, a dictionary isn't going to properly explain such a complex thing. That's not even what a dictionary is for.

Edited, Mar 20th 2013 8:20pm by Rachel9


Dictionaries aren't for explanations, but for definitions. Your "complex" explanation contains words that are properly defined in dictionaries. Those definitions cannot change just because you choose to bolster your point. Further proof of your nescience.
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Your "complex" explanation contains words that are properly defined in dictionaries.
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]Can't we get an actual cripple fight instead?
Remember that scene in the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie, where Elizabeth is eating and Barbossa is talking, and suddenly she freaks out and tries to escape? Right about where he says "You best start believing in ghost stories Miss Turner. You're in one. " Yeah, kind of like that.
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#460 Mar 20 2013 at 6:43 PM Rating: Decent
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What?


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Your explanation of your point contains words, does it not? Those words have definitions. Those definitions are defined in dictionaries. Your explanation can only be valid if those words are used as defined in the dictionary.
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]Can't we get an actual cripple fight instead?
Remember that scene in the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie, where Elizabeth is eating and Barbossa is talking, and suddenly she freaks out and tries to escape? Right about where he says "You best start believing in ghost stories Miss Turner. You're in one. " Yeah, kind of like that.
Sure seems like a hell of a lot more fun than what we've got going on here.
#462 Mar 20 2013 at 7:03 PM Rating: Decent
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Your "complex" explanation contains words that are properly defined in dictionaries.
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Your explanation of your point contains words, does it not? Those words have definitions. Those definitions are defined in dictionaries. Your explanation can only be valid if those words are used as defined in the dictionary.
Sure, but there's more to a word/concept than the definition a dictionary gives it.

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Sure, but there's more to a word/concept than the definition a dictionary gives it.

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#464 Mar 20 2013 at 7:41 PM Rating: Default
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Rachel9 wrote:
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Your "complex" explanation contains words that are properly defined in dictionaries.
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Your explanation of your point contains words, does it not? Those words have definitions. Those definitions are defined in dictionaries. Your explanation can only be valid if those words are used as defined in the dictionary.
Sure, but there's more to a word/concept than the definition a dictionary gives it.

Edited, Mar 20th 2013 9:04pm by Rachel9


Are you implying that we are able to capriciously alter any definition with validation, even if it's contrary to the dictionary?

Edited, Mar 21st 2013 4:24am by Almalieque
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Listen to Belkira. Avoid intelligence at all cost. Don't clog your current thinking with proper usage of words. Just think what people will think of you... using words correctly and all. What next? Proper grammar?
#467 Mar 20 2013 at 8:26 PM Rating: Decent
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OK. Not sure what that has to do with a statement about what someone "should be". If she'd said someone was born a male but felt like a female, I'd have had no issue with it. My beef was with the phase "should be" in reference to being male or female. As I said, it implies that there was some kind of intent. I suppose it also implies that there's some proper configuration, but again that becomes purely subjective. Who gets to decide what gender someone "should be"?

The person, moron. Where's the confusion. You get to decide what gender you should be. I get to decide what gender I should be. Which word about "gender is probably more than sex organs" confused you so? Was it "probably"?


At the risk of beating this into the ground. Given that the use of the word gender here assumes we're talking about "gender vs sex", then gender always refers to what someone believes/feels they are. Not what they "should be". Since gender in this context is always about current self perception, it can never (or should never) be expressed as a future condition or potential condition, which are the two interpretations of the phrase "should be".

The phrase only makes sense in the context of something that isn't currently in its proper configuration. If we were talking about biological sex, you could use the phrase to describe how a pre-op transexual feels their sex "should be" in order to match what their gender identity *is*, but it's absurd to say it the other way around. Gender identity always is what it is right now. It can't be anything else. It's what it means in this context.


Again, you don't get to decide what gender you "should be", but what gender you "are". You can then decide that this doesn't match your sex and try to change your sex to what you think it "should be". It just doesn't make any sense to use that phrase in reference to gender. And no Alma, this has nothing to do with my disagreement's with Rachel regarding other aspects of transgender issues. Some of us are capable of disagreeing on one thing, but agreeing on something else. I just think that if we're going to use sex and gender in very specific and distinct ways when discussing a subject like this (cause we kinda have to), we should be consistent with how we treat those differences. And in this context, gender is always what you identify it as right now. It's axiomatic to the use of the word itself. Saying it "should be" something implies that gender identity can be wrong, but by definition it's always what you think it is at the moment. It just can't "should be" anything. It "is" something.


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#468 Mar 20 2013 at 8:31 PM Rating: Decent
My use of the phrase "should be" was in the context of what their outward body should reflect to mirror the way they feel. It was an appropriate usage of the phrase, I apologize if the context wasn't conveyed correctly. I was trying to phrase the question in a way that would keep moron over there from trying to delve into definitions. (Which didn't matter anyway, since he refuses to answer a simple @#%^ing question.) Instead, I have this moron dissecting it.

Edited, Mar 20th 2013 9:37pm by Belkira
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Are you implying that we are able to capriciously alter any definition with validation, even if it's contrary to the dictionary?
No, i'm explicitly stating that a dictionary only gives a brief overview of the meaning of a word. It does not, should not, and never will perfectly explain everything about a word, such as minor differences between similar words, why one seemingly identical word is used instead of another in some situations, but not others, etc. A dictionary is meant to allow people who do not understand a word to more or less understand it. If you read a dictionary entry, and think there's nothing more to the word, then you're missing the entire point.

Edited, Mar 20th 2013 11:43pm by Rachel9
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Are you implying that we are able to capriciously alter any definition with validation, even if it's contrary to the dictionary?
No, i'm explicitly stating that a dictionary only gives a brief overview of the meaning of a word. It does not, should not, and never will perfectly explain everything about a word, such as minor differences between similar words, why one seemingly identical word is used instead of another in some situations, but not others, etc. A dictionary is meant to allow people who do not understand a word to more or less understand it. If you read a dictionary entry, and think there's nothing more to the word, then you're missing the entire point.
The OED begs to differ.
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For instance, different intellectual professions like medicine, philosophy and others have technical languages and words that have very specific meanings that are different to how they are used in common vernacular. For instance, when a civilian uses the word shock*, they usually use it in a different way to the very precise and wide-ranging physilogical way that medical staff mean when they use the term shock. Shock to a doctor means that the person is no longer digesting food very well, that their blood has withdrawn to their internal organs away from their limbs and brain, that the patient is in a critical condition. Similar with panic** Panic to a medical professional means that the patient is in a state when they are convinced that their body is dying, and that death is imminent. Any lesser mental state to a mental professional is called anxiety. So if you've just witnessed a horrific car smash that your spouse and children are in, and you think that they have probably just died in front of you? The emotional state you're in right then? It's called anxiety by the medical profession.

* "I was shocked by Obama's new bill" "I got a shock when I saw him recently" "I got a shock from touching the door handle."
** "I panicked when I saw my electricity bill" "When I realised I was lost in the woods, I panicked".
#473 Mar 21 2013 at 5:53 AM Rating: Decent
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Almalieque wrote:
Are you implying that we are able to capriciously alter any definition with validation, even if it's contrary to the dictionary?
No, i'm explicitly stating that a dictionary only gives a brief overview of the meaning of a word. It does not, should not, and never will perfectly explain everything about a word, such as minor differences between similar words, why one seemingly identical word is used instead of another in some situations, but not others, etc. A dictionary is meant to allow people who do not understand a word to more or less understand it. If you read a dictionary entry, and think there's nothing more to the word, then you're missing the entire point.

Edited, Mar 20th 2013 11:43pm by Rachel9


That is utterly false. I'm not sure where you received that nonsense, but the point of a dictionary is to set the standard of the meaning of a word. Else, you are capable of making false definitions. How is one to validate a meaning if you can't use the dictionary as a constant?

What if the definition that you're giving isn't in the dictionary? Does it make it true? Who validates that?

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For instance, different intellectual professions like medicine, philosophy and others have technical languages and words that have very specific meanings that are different to how they are used in common vernacular. For instance, when a civilian uses the word shock*, they usually use it in a different way to the very precise and wide-ranging physilogical way that medical staff mean when they use the term shock. Shock to a doctor means that the person is no longer digesting food very well, that their blood has withdrawn to their internal organs away from their limbs and brain, that the patient is in a critical condition. Similar with panic** Panic to a medical professional means that the patient is in a state when they are convinced that their body is dying, and that death is imminent. Any lesser mental state to a mental professional is called anxiety. So if you've just witnessed a horrific car smash that your spouse and children are in, and you think that they have probably just died in front of you? The emotional state you're in right then? It's called anxiety by the medical profession.

* "I was shocked by Obama's new bill" "I got a shock when I saw him recently" "I got a shock from touching the door handle."
** "I panicked when I saw my electricity bill" "When I realised I was lost in the woods, I panicked".


All jargon is defined in specific dictionaries. All of your medical terms may not appear in your common dictionary, but are defined else where. Regardless of how the words are used, the words have specific meanings. As stated before, in casual talk, slightly misusing a word isn't a problem; however, you cannot make arguments based on false definitions.
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Language both evolves, and is context specific. For example, a metaphysician using the word "whole" is most likely using it to mean "the entire universe". Often they will help you out by capitalizing Whole so you know we are talking about the universe. But not just the entire material universe. Whole refers to EVERYTHING. Which basically means God-including-the-physical-universe. In light of this, you might consider the etymology of the word "holy". It seems to have lost a w and an e.

If we are talking about a serious contextual problem, theory, solution, etc, often in an academic or professional setting, it's time to make language work for the situation, if the requisite language is not already in place. In the West, gender fluidity was a taboo issue. It's no longer taboo, and thanks to Endocrine Disrupters, it's a growing phenomenon. Definitely time to talk conceptually in a good-faith way, instead of pretending that language defines reality, and not the other way around.
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At the risk of beating this into the ground. Given that the use of the word gender here assumes we're talking about "gender vs sex", then gender always refers to what someone believes/feels they are. Not what they "should be".

Please forever stop "explaining" things to me. There has never, once, been an instance where I was confused about the substance of what you were trying to communicate. I mean you're possibly the worst communicator in the world, so there IS that, but obviously you trying to "clarify" something inevitably just makes it worse.

I get it. I understand your idiotic point that there's no authority derived from the brain's insistence that one is a gender that doesn't match one's sex organ. The distinction is UTTERLY meaningless. There's no functional difference in the terminology. None. If someone is the female gender then they should have been born with a ******. Rhetoric doesn't drive understanding. Denying the word "should" in no way reduces the importance or provenance of "brain gender" over sex organ gender. At all. So stop. What you seem to think is a clever tactic of having someone admit that the word "should" doesn't apply to we can get to "nothing says the sex organs are wrong, bleah bleah" is a game most of us were bored with as children. It's transparent and foolish.

Have I cleared it up for you now?
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