A myriad of other genders
Man with flailing hands and fast excitable way of speaking that he no doubt thinks make him terrifically feminine and thus a woman says “it’s not just women who give birth.”
Yes it is Sparky. When you’re talking about humans giving birth that is “just women.”
He hopes we can see it’s not rooted in erasure but trans inclusivity.
No can do, Sparky. Erasure is exactly what it is – erasure of the entire subordinated sex to flatter the vanity of people like you.
Also it’s eTcetera, not eKcetera.
I’m sure women all over are just brimming with gratitude for this motherfucker’s generously including them in the “birthing person” category.
Nobody gets taught even the most basic etymology these days, do they?
I often see et cetera (Latin; and the rest) shortened to ‘ect’. Even if schools can’t be bothered to teach foreign and historical languages any more, they should at least explain the origins and pronunciation of common foreign and ancient phrases still in use.
Near as I can make out, the “myriad” of genders comes in two forms:
1.) Genders that involve different ways of playing around with man (male) and woman (female.) Included are man, woman, neither-man-nor-woman, both-man-and-woman, switching between man and woman, switching between man and neither-man-nor-woman, and any other combination you can think of, in fluctuating circumstances. We can at least conceive of such genders because they conceptually draw from our prior understanding of man (male) and woman (female.) Gender and sex used to be synonyms.
2.) Genders that don’t involve man (male) and/or woman (female.) The connection to sex is tenuous at best. This is where we find people having the “gender of a cloud” or being Aesthetigender, a gender derived from aesthetics. Most of this either sounds like results from a teenage magazine personality test (“What Kind of Flower Are You?”) or is seriously incoherent. Included in this would be genders that are basically nothing more than attitudes towards gender(Cassflux: There is a fluctuating intensity of irrelevance toward gender.)
There’s a list of The 72 Genders here:
https://www.medicinenet.com/what_are_the_72_other_genders/article.htm
I personally fluctuate between Egogender: “a personal type of gender identified by the individual alone based on the person’s experience within the self” and Genderblank: “It is closely related to a blank space.”
I don’t see why a blank space can’t give birth.
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This bloke is a good example of the type. They all sound like a bunch of twelve-year-old aliens on a biology field trip to Earth from a planet where reproduction is by parthenogenesis and they are encountering the notion of sexual reproduction for the first time.
Eventually they are bound to work it out.
OK, so any one of any gender can give birth, right? Just like us? No, not quite like us. Some people will never be able to give birth under any circumstances. But some others can, even though they have the same genders as some of the first lot? And two people have to do something weird together, or no baby happens, but only one of them will give birth? How do you tell which one? Do they choose? Does it have something to do with their gender combinations? No? Please miss, I think that size might have something to do with it; babies mostly come out of smaller people. Do the big people get too big? Oh! Is that what they look like with no clothes on‽ Ewwww! UGGGleeeeeee! Oh, look, half of them have lumps up high on their torso, and half have a dangly thing and lumps down low. The ones with high lumps give birth‽ Wow! And they need stuff squirted into them from the dangly thing to be able to grow a baby? I get it! It’s weird and gross, but sort of makes sense. So what does gender have to do with it, then? Isn’t it just irrelevant personality stuff?
Which makes it tougher for those of us who teach college science to teach student how to figure out what words mean by breaking it into its pieces. My mother could do that, and she never went to college. She taught me (also several scientific terminology classes). I worked out the meaning of indefatigable using that method when I was in seventh grade; very few of the faculty and staff can even do that now.
Sorry, sort of sent on an off topic rant. Ignore me. Carry on.
But give birth to what? And not just to babies either. This galah has given birth to a massive pile of horse shit. All by his little self.
If he decides to identify as a horse, he will have proof? (If he wants to identify as a bull on alternate days, the horse shit can pass as bull shit, and he’s still in good shape.)
Like your mother, I never went to college either iknklast. But I was lucky enough to experience that old fashioned schooling in which it was more important to teach the children as much as possible, whilst giving us the tools for further learning off our own bat, than to teach to standardised tests and produce drones. I’ve been left with a lifelong love of etymology, and the ability to read (to at least a small amount of comprehension) more languages than I actually studied.
Isn’t Oli London the English fella who self-identifies as Korean and has had multiple surgeries to look like a particular Korean popstar? How odd that he wouldn’t be on board with self ID for gender.
Cf. ie. vs. eg. ad nauseum.
Good one. Er, several.