Recent content by ToddNotTodd

I (as well as many others here) have explained this to death. And then after we’ve explained it, there’s the chorus of “No you haven’t! Lalala I can’t hear you!” responses from the willfully ignorant. The paranoid about natural changes in language is fascinating. I read in Psychology Today...

Ahh, the old “I know you are but what am I” comeback. It brings back memories…

Why exactly do I have to define words in the dictionary? I’m not the one with issues here…

You’ve pointed out something that isn’t true…

Sex has to do with chromosomes. Gender does not. It’s simple really. A child can understand it. When my son was little he had no issue with the concepts. And I’m pretty sure I’ve seen you in similar threads where this exact thing is being discussed. I’m a bit worried about your memory, since...

Your inability to understand is noted…

For the umpteenth time, the Oxford dictionary reports how people use words. Do you think they make up definitions? Do you think there are dictionary laws? Maybe dictionary police?

I don’t have a hang up about what the word means. I, like any well-adjusted person, goes along with the prevailing usage of words. I’m not the person standing on my lawn shaking my fist at clouds…

Why on earth would I try to define what a woman is? I’m not the one freaking out about words…

Dictionaries don’t ‘try’ to do anything other than document how language is being used. They’re descriptive, not prescriptive. How many times am I going to have to repeat this ridiculously evident fact? And people have already decoupled sex and gender. I realize this may be difficult for you...

Language tells me that women can be born male. The evidence is… look how words are being used.

The word ‘gender’ means exactly how people use the word ‘gender’.

There’s a specific definition in the dictionary. I swear, it’s like none of you have ever actually opened one before…

You conveniently left out this definition from the same source: Female a person with the qualities traditionally associated with females It makes sense that the definition for ‘gender’, which you’ve completely ignored by the way, is changing faster than the definition for ‘woman’. Give it time…

You said you were married. Ask your wife. Trust that they know what they’re talking about.