there4eyeM
unlicensed metaphysician
- Jul 5, 2012
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The term "assigned gender" is quite interesting. Inherent in the terminology is that a person is a certain way and someone has put a noun to work categorizing them.
Note that it totally subverts the discussion by presenting gender as determined by language.
If a person with two legs said, "I have been labeled bipedal, yet am not", response would be confused, disoriented, difficult. Someone claiming to be tripedal and only born with two legs would be considered eccentric, strange, ridiculous, perhaps deluded. If the person insisted upon being referred to as tripedal, the person would probably be ignored unless insisting became too strenuous, at which time restraint would be used. No one, however, would think to say the person had been assigned bipedal as a description.
The human species is a bipedal animal.
Note that it totally subverts the discussion by presenting gender as determined by language.
If a person with two legs said, "I have been labeled bipedal, yet am not", response would be confused, disoriented, difficult. Someone claiming to be tripedal and only born with two legs would be considered eccentric, strange, ridiculous, perhaps deluded. If the person insisted upon being referred to as tripedal, the person would probably be ignored unless insisting became too strenuous, at which time restraint would be used. No one, however, would think to say the person had been assigned bipedal as a description.
The human species is a bipedal animal.