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It might be, but gender is a category that has quite some precedent. I'm willing to bet that you would be at least mildly perturbed by being misgendered. (I'm
by dwb 7y ago
It might be, but gender is a category that has quite some precedent. I'm willing to bet that you would be at least mildly perturbed by being misgendered.
(I'm interpreting "made up category" as "relatively novel category"; all categories are "made up".)
- TheAdamAndChe 7y agoThe implication here being that any perterbation or social disagreement should not be allowed on the site. How is that a good thing?
- peteretep 7y agoCan you think of any case _at all_ in which purposefully misgendering someone is anything other than outright harassment against a minority who already has it pretty fucking tough?
- TheAdamAndChe 7y agoMaybe someone else was unaware of the other's desired gender. Maybe they don't accept the idea that people get to choose their own gender. The expression of different cultural norms is not necessarily harassment.
- dwb 7y agoPeople don't get to choose their own gender, they get to choose their own gender expression. Freedom of expression (to some greater extent) is quite popular in most societies. No-one's complaining about good-faith mistakes, but if we could arrange for those mistakes to be very difficult to make then so much the better.
- peteretep 7y ago> Maybe someone else was unaware of the other's desired gender Then it wasn’t purposefully doing it, so I’m not sure how it’s relevant to my question > Maybe they don’t accept the idea that Plenty of people don’t accept the idea that men and women should be accepted equally, or that you can’t ban black people from living in your apartment, or that men who have sex with other men need to be put to death. That you’ve drawn an arbitrary line doesn’t privilege your line.