I posted a Twitter thread about this that puts it very concisely, I think. Here it is:
Does Gender exist?
1/ The word #gender is an artifact of the English language: it first was introduced by hijacking the term for grammatical gender (from Latin: genus) for ideological purposes. It then morphed into a synonym for biological sex, ...
2/ ...probably out of prudishness because sex also refers to the sex act. The gender concept therefore doesn't exist in other languages. To the degree the idea gets pushed there, it's entirely an import from the English world, often using the English word "gender".
3/ It must be kept in mind that the word sex (as in biological sex) has never played any big role in real life. It is only used by biologists and bureaucrats to categorize things according to objective criteria. Normally, our intuition is plenty enough.
4/ What gender ideology has done is forcing us to make "sex" explicit when we didn't need to, then sneak in a new word that hovers in a confused state between synonym and new definition (gender), and use that confusion to force the new definition back on the word "sex".
5/ As a consequence, we are BOTH forced to make explicit what should be intuitive and therefore lose the intuitive understanding, AND we lose the explicit definition used by scientists and bureaucrats which is limited, but useful.
Anyhoo, everyone should be familiar with John Money and McKinsey. To break the ice I often regale new acquaintances with the stories how McKinsey had 6 months old children raped. For ‘research’.
So, not just not coarse but also a riot at parties.
Yep, for this English-speaker, German is amazing. I think all English speech should be translated first into German, then literally translated back into English. Non-stop entertainment.
"John Money was an individual you should definitely not look too closely into if you are a sensitive person and don’t like horror movies and abuse stories."
Why is this always the case? There's an iron law in there somewhere...
I posted a Twitter thread about this that puts it very concisely, I think. Here it is:
Does Gender exist?
1/ The word #gender is an artifact of the English language: it first was introduced by hijacking the term for grammatical gender (from Latin: genus) for ideological purposes. It then morphed into a synonym for biological sex, ...
2/ ...probably out of prudishness because sex also refers to the sex act. The gender concept therefore doesn't exist in other languages. To the degree the idea gets pushed there, it's entirely an import from the English world, often using the English word "gender".
3/ It must be kept in mind that the word sex (as in biological sex) has never played any big role in real life. It is only used by biologists and bureaucrats to categorize things according to objective criteria. Normally, our intuition is plenty enough.
4/ What gender ideology has done is forcing us to make "sex" explicit when we didn't need to, then sneak in a new word that hovers in a confused state between synonym and new definition (gender), and use that confusion to force the new definition back on the word "sex".
5/ As a consequence, we are BOTH forced to make explicit what should be intuitive and therefore lose the intuitive understanding, AND we lose the explicit definition used by scientists and bureaucrats which is limited, but useful.
Calumny! We’re not coarse, we’re descriptive!
Anyhoo, everyone should be familiar with John Money and McKinsey. To break the ice I often regale new acquaintances with the stories how McKinsey had 6 months old children raped. For ‘research’.
So, not just not coarse but also a riot at parties.
Yep, descriptive and no-nonsense! Non-Germans are always amazed at things like hand-shoe, anti-baby-pill, genital-traffic etc. Call it like it is :)
Yep, for this English-speaker, German is amazing. I think all English speech should be translated first into German, then literally translated back into English. Non-stop entertainment.
"John Money was an individual you should definitely not look too closely into if you are a sensitive person and don’t like horror movies and abuse stories."
Why is this always the case? There's an iron law in there somewhere...