The concepts of gender and sex are stupid

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For me, genders are just as stupid as believing in god.

I've been studying a bit of history and, imo, ppl would be better off if shit like male, female, intersex, heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, etc. didn't exist.

It seems like these are just tags created to put stuff into a neat little box to give a false sense of comfort.

If humans have never created such categories, imagine how much shit would achieve bc we wouldn't created imaginary barriers such as "man can't be x,y,z bc only woman can do that" or "woman can't do a,b,c, bc only men are capable to do that."
Or stuff like "being gay/bi/pan/etc is undesirable and will lead to extinction."

Tell me, where's the point in these things existing? If this concepts never existed, do you think would be worse?

I recently dropped any ideas of sex/gender. It's so useless and pointless, and getting rid of that has been liberating, as I don't feel pressured by being assigned to a role, nor I feel guilty for being in that way. I don't follow role models, neither identify with useless concepts.

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  • KholatKhult
    3 years ago | pl

    I agree about the gender part.

    I absolutely hate the gender binary. And I hate gender roles and gender stereotypes and gender norms.

    That’s why I feel like some transgender stuff is just reinforced sexism. “Oh you like this? You must be a woman trapped in a mans body!” Like no dude. I’d rather it just be acceptable for men to be feminine and women to be masculine without them feeling like they have to transition or some shit.
    “I feel like a woman” just sounds sexist and brainwashed to me.

    But all that aside, if someone asks me to call them she/her, he/him, they/them, I’m going to do what they ask. Cause punishing singular people who are trying to figure out their identity in a screwed up society, or just being rude cause you have some agenda, isn’t fair.

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  • Tommythecaty
    3 years ago

    Not sure if you’re taking into account the importance of descriptive terms. They’re needed to make advancements in, and communicate, almost all human knowledge.

    Oh sorry I meant to say yeahhhh dat stuffs just a label and stuffs it’s like bad and shit derrrrp

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    • SherlockHolmes
      3 years ago

      By calling gender and sex descriptive terms you mean a word that could be anything we want them yes, I am taking into account. They don't need to exist. There are languages around the word that don't have them or use no gender-specific pronouns (meaning they only refer to human beings, not males and females).

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      • LloydAsher
        3 years ago

        Yeah because women and men are totally the same biologically, chemically, mentally..... oh wait. We are not.

        Men are men. Women are women
        Who you sleep with doesnt matter but showing off your ass in public during a pride parade doesnt make you less judged, especially for those with children.

        If these concepts never existed then the first tribe of people that realized that women are far more important than men, and that men were expendable would seize power and take over all the other soy boy tribes since they would send out females as their main combatants. If your army suffers 75% casualties with pure males, your village can recoup that in a generation. If the soy boy village got 50% of their females wiped out they wouldn't be able to recover in several generations.

        Men have their purpose and women have their purpose. At this day of age we are all legally the same holding the same rights. But to say we are all physically the same is just plain naivete to the point of stupidity.

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      • Tommythecaty
        3 years ago

        It’d be awfully hard to have advanced with biology and socialisation without those concepts you deem useless. Not to mention everything connected by extension...

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  • SkullsNRoses
    3 years ago

    Outside of medicine and sex genitals should be irrelevant.

    On the surface people are moving away from a rigid gender binary but I fear that with more and more feminine men and masculine women indentifying as non-binary they are reinforcing the idea that a man cannot be feminine and a woman cannot be masculine.

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    • Bluishorange
      3 years ago

      Yes. I agree with this. Mostly. Sports competition is tricky. But that opens this up to a completley different type of conversation.

      I will respect how a person defines themself, identity is a powerful tool both personally and for those who want to manipulate it. But the sliding scale of masculine to feminine isn't widely understood by the public. It isn't binary. But trying to insist that male and masculine are interchangeable terms by adding a third option does not solve the problem. It does reinforce negative stereotypes.

      I kind of hate gender politics. Often it seems like people are looking to be offended and misunderstood. And I believe they are. But getting mad at someone for not knowing the terminology that just came to fruition last month does not help to educate the public. In general, we need to be educated. Even the OP lists off sexual orientation as gender assignments. They aren't the same. The person you want to have sex with is a separate part of the self from the level of feminine and masculine impulses you have. Not everything in life is about sex. Why make it so?

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      • SherlockHolmes
        3 years ago

        Sorry if I couldn't explain better in the main post, but I know that sex and gender are different concepts. I just put them together bc they are categories, the difference being one is according to science and the other with cultural aspects.

        (Language barrier is a bitch...)

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        • LloydAsher
          3 years ago

          Theres nothing wrong with the language barrier. It's just new age semantics that a political party was able to gain control of.

          50 years ago, gender and sex ment the same thing and could be used interchangeably. 10 years ago you can use them interchangeably. Right now you can use them interchangeably but depending on who is screeching the loudest you can determine their party affiliation.

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  • JustAHuman
    3 years ago

    How would people reproduce? Describe how people reproduce without using genders.

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    • SherlockHolmes
      3 years ago

      They don't need abstract concepts such as words to know that they have visual differences in their bodies. Do you think other animals know what the word "male" and "female" means? They know the difference by senses cues such as smells, sounds, etc.
      Is not that hard for a human to reproduce the same way by just using their senses.

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      • JustAHuman
        3 years ago

        But I like words. I would like to be told about the bird and the bees. So how would people reproduce?

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        • LloydAsher
          3 years ago

          Are you trying to condense human mating rituals into a convenient text form on a site that most of us use for stupid questions/talking about fetishes/self harm/ lOok at this p0rn site it is s0o cool

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          • JustAHuman
            3 years ago

            I just want an answer to my question. How would you talk to kids about it?

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            • LloydAsher
              3 years ago

              Let sex ed take care of the hard facts. It's your job to teach the morality behind it.

              I'm sterile so I don't have to worry about pregnancy but ooh boy is that a massive inconvenience to get someone pregnant who you dont genuinely care about

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  • RoseIsabella
    3 years ago

    You can believe whatever you want to believe. I believe that the God you don't believe in has given you the freewill to believe whatever the Hell you want to believe.

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    • LloydAsher
      3 years ago

      Amen.

      Unless you are into children. Then you need to really repent and have God help your ass

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      • RoseIsabella
        3 years ago

        I personally like the idea of active pedophiles receiving a swift bullet to the brain, and then an express ticket to Hell.

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