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I can get how that's hard to get a handle on. My perspective is that it's a matter of increasing your vocabulary to reflect the diversity of gender expression. Gender is somewhat of a nebulous concept to begin with. Like, what does it mean to see oneself as "male" or "female"? Binary genders...

That reminds me a discussion I was having with my cousin. She was talking about how there is now often the option to play as a male or female character in many video games, and that the next step should be implementing a scale for the character's gender presentation. I'd imagine that's an...

I think the fact that gender is so often viewed as a spectrum is the result of having societal expectations for what the terms "male" and "female" mean. With the parameter of two genders, people who don't fit into the ideals are placed somewhere on a sliding scale based upon the opinions of...

I agree with @BasiliskVeranda that people are too hung up on labels that people use for themselves. Language isn't a tangible thing that existed before we came upon it. It was developed over time. If people create new words that work better for them, why get worked up about it? That's just how...

From my perspective, anyone is qualified to define gender as they please. It's one of many categories people use for their own purposes, and as such people are bound to use that category differently. A medical scientist might look at gender on a binary or using a biological basis of some sort...

@Remembrance You say it kinda is, but that is by our society's standards. Though that said, we're also seeing a surge in people identifying as nonbinary, so that suggests to me that gender as a strict reference to biology does not satisfy everyone. Since we've essentially invented the concept...

@Remembrance I'll keep it short and sweet then ^_^ Intersex can be a birth defect, but sometimes it's not. That might sound weird, but "intersex" just means "doesn't fit into male female categories". So that can be because of their secondary sex characteristics or chromosomes (which can...

Sex certainly informs gender, though it seems to be a combination of culture and biology. For instance, men have been found to be better with visuo spatial tasks, and women at verbal tasks. That's likely a biological difference. However, this is an average, meaning that some women are better...

@Shifty Powers I think the goal should absolutely be that people can do whatever they want without it being attributed to a sex or gender or anything else. While society might deem something to belong to a particular demographic, these attributions are often arbitrary and prone to change. For...

Identity is a personal thing, so I agree with hologram that they are indeed accepting themselves for who they are. What they are not doing is accepting who you are saying they are. We all have our own perceptions of reality, so the reason it doesn't make sense to you is because of the lense you...

I disagree with that. I don't see taking down offensive jokes as "silencing" someone. Particularly in a privately owned setting. Plus I think your example is somewhat bewildering. You don't have the ability to send an army out to attack a country (though if you did, then yeah that would be...

If joking threats made to random people on the internet are banned forever from popular online sites, I personally do not really see that as that great a loss, or a sign of the deterioration of free speech. In the age of the internet, we've seen people become less and less aware that they're...

I don't think any of those examples could, in good faith, be interpreted as a call to violence. When I said call to violence, I meant saying things that literally incite a mob or rile people up in a way that leads to things like rioting or lynching. Disagreeing with a group or even condoning...

Whether someone is or is not a Nazi isn't relevant to this topic. The point is to address whether one should give people with views which are discriminating or violent a platform to speak in places such as college campuses, television, etc. One philosophy is that you shouldn't because this...

There are definitely some users who barely use prefixes, but there are also users who use them frequently in the ways Kaerri described. Even only looking at rp recruitment (since they're definitely used all the time in non-rp subforums), people who are promoting a single genre can draw people in...

The OP of this thread is not constructive or open to a debate/conversation, and is also literally tagged as being a "shitpost". The posts within this thread are also unfocused and are clearly not treating this as a discussion. The General Discussion forum is not the place to post these threads...

Well you're not wrong that it would be a pain to moderate a subforum like that :P If it existed I'd do it willingly, but since it doesn't, I'll appreciate the higher levels of civility that come from not devoting an entire subforum to the subject (plus, when you take out all the toxic threads, I...

Hey everyone! I appreciate that there was a lot of thoughtful, varied opinions which were expressed in this thread. That said, there is a lot of bickering and personally targeted attacks, and it has not remained on topic in the slightest. I believe Trump was mentioned in only a small portion of...

I can see how you interpret it that way, but I believe his intentions to be entirely different. Many people believe the gender binary to be a fixed state, and while my own experience and research lead me to believe that this is not the case, the gender binary is a belief that is strongly tied to...

@stainsoftime I was not directing it at you specifically, but you are included in that. To clarify, I think you were somewhat disrespectful to say: "Seriously, you're a 16-year old claiming to know more than every expert in the field". Everyone, including teenagers, has a valuable opinion to...