What do you think more people should experience as part of their journey of exploring their sexuality that, in your opinion, not enough people have tried?
What do you think more people should experience as part of their journey of exploring their sexuality that, in your opinion, not enough people have tried?
It is very confusing. It was not so confusing until the existing words were all changed to not mean what they did. Now nobody can even tell me if there are words for the concepts that the words once meant, even though the concepts still exist but now don’t have words. Almost like it’s an effort to erase the very concepts. Which wont work as long as ppl find meaning in those concepts and the distinctions they make.
Am I just crazy to consider groups of humans with the same reproductive organs to be meaningful things to have a words for?
We do have names for them because the way science works is you update the way you talk about things when you learn more information about how they truly work. We used to think sickness was caused by an imbalance of the four humors, but now we know that there are tons of different causes for different diseases and they all work in different, complex ways. I’ll reiterate the other reply.
To refer to someone by the genitals they were born with, you use AMAB and AFAB, if you’re discussing solely biological sex and not gender identity. You can call someone presenting masculine male regardless of their reproductive organs, or you can call someone with a penis male if you don’t know their gender identity but they either apparently present masculine after they understand the concept of gender, or they don’t present a gender identity at all before their concept of gender identity forms. That’s why in most discourse now we don’t use “male” and “female” to describe humans since it’s reductive and bioessentialist language, and reserve it for animals since they don’t have a concept of gender identity. We instead use “man” and “woman” for people who identify as either binary gender regardless of biological sex, and AMAB and AFAB for biological sex regardless of gender identity.
Why didn’t we keep the old words for the old concepts and make new ones for the new concepts? Who is deciding all this? In another thread they said male and female aren’t used for reproductive systems differences anymore, are they right or are you?
You can use male and female for those as long as it’s clear what context you’re using them in. You can say male and female reproductive system and people will know what you’re talking about, but you can a person male or female, are you talking about their gender, their biological sex, or are you exclusively referring to cis people of that category? Also, you can use whatever terminology you want, just be clear who you’re talking about. Gender identity and biological sex are both meaningful when talking about sexuality, so who you actually refer to when you use ambiguous terms matters. Trans women are women, a gender identity term, even if they have male genitalia, a biological sex term, but are they as people male or female? That’s why they added AMAB and AFAB to the vocabulary: It tells you exactly what category you’re referring to. Male and female can mean either sex or gender, so they’re typically for situations in which they mean the same thing, so not suitable for a set of humans in which they are not the same thing.
Yeah that’s gonna be a real struggle for me. Thanks for the time, though.