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The teacher felt strongly that the student's gender was biological and not something the student could arbitrarily choose to change. The teacher felt that usin

The teacher felt strongly that the student's gender was biological and not something the student could arbitrarily choose to change. The teacher felt that using a pronoun other than a biologically consistent one was "lying", and it was against the teacher's religion to lie, so the teacher would not use the student's chosen pronoun. Did I miss something?

damnyou 7y ago
What in the world is a biologically consistent pronoun? A pronoun operates in a purely social context.
- psilocipher 7y ago
  Born with a penis = he/him/his. Born with a vagina = she/her/hers. It's genetic. https://www.who.int/genomics/gender/en/index1.html https://www.who.int/genomics/gender/en/index1.html. The whole "science" thing. You know, women have eggs, can get pregnant. Men, have sperm, can impregnate. Perhaps this basic lack of understanding is at the heart of the gender pronoun debate. Some people simply don't know, and refuse to accept that there are specific biological differences between men and women. A bit like flat-earthers.
damnyou 7y ago
Your response to my comment was flagged, but you seem to be laboring under some misconceptions here. While biology is what it is, the mapping from biology and other factors to social categories is determined purely socially. Categories and labels are not true or false, they are socio-political processes that can uplift or oppress minorities just like other such processes. I would recommend reading "THE CATEGORIES WERE MADE FOR MAN, NOT MAN FOR THE CATEGORIES": https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/21/the-categories-were-made-for-man-not-man-for-the-categories/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/21/the-categories-were-ma...
- psilocipher 7y ago
  I don’t particularly care if my response was flagged. I didn’t notice. Have a nice day in your echo chamber. Everything in the universe is relative. That doesn't mean I'm going to let others tell me that up is down and left is right. At the moment, I feel like I'm the "minority" being "oppressed". It's ironic, since the topic of this thread is "What you can't say". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

damnyou 7y ago

What in the world is a biologically consistent pronoun? A pronoun operates in a purely social context.

psilocipher 7y ago
Born with a penis = he/him/his. Born with a vagina = she/her/hers. It's genetic. https://www.who.int/genomics/gender/en/index1.html https://www.who.int/genomics/gender/en/index1.html. The whole "science" thing. You know, women have eggs, can get pregnant. Men, have sperm, can impregnate. Perhaps this basic lack of understanding is at the heart of the gender pronoun debate. Some people simply don't know, and refuse to accept that there are specific biological differences between men and women. A bit like flat-earthers.

damnyou 7y ago

Your response to my comment was flagged, but you seem to be laboring under some misconceptions here. While biology is what it is, the mapping from biology and other factors to social categories is determined purely socially. Categories and labels are not true or false, they are socio-political processes that can uplift or oppress minorities just like other such processes. I would recommend reading "THE CATEGORIES WERE MADE FOR MAN, NOT MAN FOR THE CATEGORIES": https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/21/the-categories-were-made-for-man-not-man-for-the-categories/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/21/the-categories-were-ma...

psilocipher 7y ago
I don’t particularly care if my response was flagged. I didn’t notice. Have a nice day in your echo chamber. Everything in the universe is relative. That doesn't mean I'm going to let others tell me that up is down and left is right. At the moment, I feel like I'm the "minority" being "oppressed". It's ironic, since the topic of this thread is "What you can't say". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance