On Gender

 

You want to know the truth? I don’t much care how others re-define “gender.” Not a whit. Now as to a person’s sex, I can pretty much discern that without much effort. Can I be fooled? Probably, but rare is the circumstance where that matters.

Here’s another thing: society segregates people by sex for sound reasons. When the two sexes mix, children are the inevitable result. Society loves and needs children, no doubt, but children present a huge commitment and expense; 21 plus years of learning and support. So we don’t mix the sexes capriciously. We separate them, guide them, teach them and try to ensure that our children are ready for the commitment childbirth represents when (and if) that time comes, whether planned or a surprise.

More heresy: girls and boys are generally both predictable and different. It works. Get over it.

Back to the initial question: gender. Some people have decided that for some reason we all need to acknowledge a whole new subset of “genders” based on various sexual preferences and proclivities. They’ve decided that this is important. Why is this important? I don’t care what a person’s sexual preferences and proclivities are. In fact, I’d prefer not to know. These are not subjects for polite company.

So dear reader, let me suggest the obvious. No one is trying to hurt anyone’s feelings here; gender, as it is now being re-defined, is not important; just keep your sexual preferences and proclivities to yourself. Expect to be addressed as you present yourself, by your sex.

Anything more is vanity and inanity. If you find that harsh, it’s not.  It’s just the truth.

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  1. Doctor Robert Member
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    Sage words.

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  2. AltarGirl Inactive
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    May I present male and female:

    When they meet, transfer of dna occurs.

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  3. Judge Mental Member
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    Doug Kimball: Expect to be addressed as you present yourself, by your sex. 

    Assuming it’s convincing.

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  4. Bob Thompson Member
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    I’ve never had much use for ‘gender’, except when engaged in the study of foreign languages, since I read, write, and speak American. You have this issue down pat, exactly right. There are two sexes, thank the Lord, that include some who don’t quite make that work as designed. I think it has probably always been that way. I also have never cared about the preferences of others except for those with whom I was personally involved and that continues in place today. Thanks for you post.

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  5. dnewlander Inactive
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    AltarGirl (View Comment):

    May I present male and female:

    When they meet, transfer of dna occurs.

    Make that dLna. ;) 

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  6. dnewlander Inactive
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    Exactly.

    Words have gender. People have sex. 

    Unless they’re British in old jokes. 

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  7. Annefy Member
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    A friend brought this to my attention. I haven’t had time to research it yet.

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  8. dnewlander Inactive
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    Annefy (View Comment):

    A friend brought this to my attention. I haven’t had time to research it yet.

    John Dewey would be proud. Can’t wait for the CA Supreme Court to decide that no parent has standing to fight this. 

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  9. MarciN Member
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    Annefy (View Comment):

    A friend brought this to my attention. I haven’t had time to research it yet.

    ParentalRights.org is trying to get an amendment to the Constitution passed that says parents have the right to control their children’s education and health care.

    An interesting tidbit I stumbled upon years ago when I was working with our school district’s administrators to try to involve the local public in our school life. Horace Mann (first secretary of education for the state of Massachusetts, around 1848) did not want to have much religion taught because he said if it went against the parents’ religion, the schools would lose the parents’ support–meaning not only local tax dollars but basic “Do your homework” kind of support.

    This is so obvious to me, but it is not to teachers who think they have some right or responsibility to say anything they want to other people’s kids.

    This is part of the problem in public education. The parents don’t support it to the extent that would be beneficial to the kids because the schools trample all over the parents’ own teachings and beliefs. A lot of parents step away and say, “Hey, then it’s on you. If you are going teach my kids stuff I wouldn’t, then the result is your responsibility.”

    Unfortunately, the actual result is like an extremely contentious divorce. The kids end up not respecting anyone. And they cut off their own nose (they don’t try to excel) to spite their face.

    If everyone would treat everyone else with respect, we could fix a lot that is wrong in our country.

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  10. Pony Convertible Inactive
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    Annefy (View Comment):

    A friend brought this to my attention. I haven’t had time to research it yet.

    Really folks, isn’t it time to end government schools?  Give parents school-stamps, like food stamps, and let them shop at private schools rather than government schools.  Does anyone really think that if government ran our grocery stores they would be anywhere near as good as our private supermarkets?  The same goes with schools.  Put the money out there and let private enterprises create really good schools.

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  11. Judge Mental Member
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    Pony Convertible (View Comment):

    Annefy (View Comment):

    A friend brought this to my attention. I haven’t had time to research it yet.

    Really folks, isn’t it time to end government schools? Give parents school-stamps, like food stamps, and let them shop at private schools rather than government schools. Does anyone really think that if government ran our grocery stores they would be anywhere near as good as our private supermarkets? The same goes with schools. Put the money out there and let private enterprises create really good schools.

    Last I heard, and it was years and years ago… $400 billion per year.

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  12. Mitchell Messom Inactive
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    Its kind of odd that one is allowed to opt out of the Health and HIV bit and not the other. I mean I support both but you think the health a disease bit be compulsory for evident reasons.

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  13. Unsk Member
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    Marci: ” If everyone would treat everyone else with respect, we could fix a lot that is wrong in our country.”

    For the Left, respect is only a one way street.  Their way or the highway.  The Left neither respects anyone of the “deplorable” right nor their Constitutional rights, but boy howdy how they can lecture us on “tolerance” and the need for “diversity”.

    There is no shame on the Left, but great  hypocrisy.   The concept of “respect” , like some many other things  with them, is just a word to manipulate  to gain their evil ends.  The idea of actual mutual respect and actual tolerance are foreign concepts to a Progressive Leftie. 

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  14. Jim McConnell Member
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    @annefy In the last sentence in that letter it’s very generous that the District allows parents to tell their own children what the parents believe.

     

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