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Any tips for gender ultrasound?
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Re: Any tips for gender ultrasound?
Preach, lady.
: men or male animals as a group or women or female animals as a group
: physical activity in which people touch each other's bodies, kiss each other, etc. : physical activity that is related to and often includes sexual intercourse
gender: the state of being male or female
ok and just to prove a point these came off the merriam-websters site the seem to have the same meaning
Don't you just love when people intentionally leave shit out to try and make themselves sound right? @belovedvirgo0209 that crap doesn't fly be me. What it actually says, word for word this time -
Gender-
the state of being male or female (typically used with reference to social and cultural differences rather than biological ones).
BFP#1 04/04/13, EDD 12/16/13
Lost our little boy on 07/26/13 at 18 weeks to UPD4
BFP#2 11/18/13, EDD 07/26/14 (One year to the date of the loss of our baby!). Grow, baby, grow!
I am just curious why you chose to pick on the SAHM? What exactly are you trying to say? Please to be explaining this @belovedvirgo0209 ?
LFAF Summer 2016 Awards:
WHY is it OFFENSIVE (offensive, not incorrect or grammatically wrong) to use the gender in place of sex? I agree that using gender is wrong within the context of the OP, but I just don't understand why it is OFFENSIVE.
It's like saying that it's okay for you to use the n-word just because you've never experienced racism, and don't get why it's offensive because it's just a derivation of the Spanish word negro, which means the color black - and that's not offensive, right?
I don't get what's so hard about understanding why it's offensive to some people. The BEST case scenario is that you are just willfully spreading ignorance of a very real issue that you just don't want to acknowledge actually exists.
The comparison was not even between gender and the n-word. Or the struggles AAs face and the struggles LGBTQs face. That wasn't the argument I was making - but since you went there, if you think LGBTQs aren't murdered, tortured and beaten daily across the globe then you're even more ignorant than I thought.
Anyway, my comparison was of the PP thinking it's not a big deal to use sex and gender interchangeably because she "doesn't get why it's offensive," to someone using the fact that they've never experienced racism as an excuse to use the n-word. There isn't an excuse for willful ignorance.
Edited because I didn't realize this was in response to a different poster.
I don't think anyone could compare the struggles of African Americans to the struggles of people who are gender-confused/LGBT. You're talking about a race of people who were murdered, enslaved, beaten, treated like merchandise and not only deprived of one basic right (marriage) but ALL civil rights. I realize that hate crimes among LGBT people are very real and tragic, but it isn't at all comparable to the horrific history of slavery and racism in this country.
Offensive and hateful words/names are considered so because they suggest the ignorance of the past.
The oppression that's associated with the usage of the n-word is just incomparable and suggests an entirely different level of hate/persecution/ignorance than someone saying "gender" in reference to anatomy.
I'm not on here much and likely won't check this thread again, no definitely not trying to start another debate. Just something to think about...
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Rainydayluck said:
Random jumping in here, but I was listening to a show on NPR discussing this very issue (comparing the plights of LGBT and AA). The panel said that it is unfair to rate or compare the plights of any oppressed people to the plights of another because the times and situations will always be so different. They said that when you are talking about the struggles and oppressions of a group of people, you must just look at the struggles of that group, not be comparing to other people who have struggled. Hope that makes sense. I'll have to see if I can find the podcast and link it up.
That being said: don't be willfully ignorant. It's sex, not gender that you are finding out with your baby.
STFU. You're utterly clueless.
I assume that is supposed to say bitch? Oh, the irony. And yes, you're are just proving my point even further. Please educate yourself on the topic of bullying. You obviously don't know what it means. And while you're at it, maybe try reading the whole thread so you can see why the OP was flamed. It's not that fucking hard. Jesus.
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If you look at one of my earlier posts, I actually said this as well.. Until I read back through, and realized the OP used gender at first unintentionally, and then AFTER people told her sex was the correct terminology, she used gender again, just to be an asshole. So, I lost any sympathy I had for her.
If you don't like the conversation, then leave. You don't get to tell people how to respond. Not to mention, you missed the entire point of why she was flamed.