I've Figured Out the Problem With Modern Gender Identity
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In a world constantly shifting between ideas of individual freedom and societal expectations, the concept of gender identity stands out as one of the most fluid and, arguably, meaningless constructs of modern times. While some may argue that it empowers people to express themselves freely, the lack of any definition leaves the term in a constant state of ambiguity.
For those of us who value clarity and substance, gender identity doesn't provide much of either. Without a concrete framework to anchor it, the term becomes nothing more than a personal label, more rooted in subjective feeling than anything grounded in objective reality.
This happens becausewhen gender identity throws away every previous definition of gender up to this point in time. In its context, you cannot use them as reference. We're left wondering to what identity they're referring to, since no parameters are given.
There's no gender and no identity in the "gender identity" narrative
Gender - noun - a group of people in a society who share particular qualities or ways of behaving which that society associates with being male, female, or another identity
What does it mean to be a "woman" or a "man" in the context of gender identity? Who gets to define it? Is it based on biological reality, personal feelings, or societal norms? The answer, it seems, is always changing and never fully grounded in anything consistent, because it is self-defined. It can mean anything, it has no structure. Without a framework to give it meaning, gender identity risks becoming an empty construct - a set of terms people attach to themselves without any real validity.
A "woman" or a "man" in gender identity terms is often reduced to feeling - but if feeling alone is what defines the label, then the word itself loses value. There is no standard, no universally agreed-upon set of characteristics that determine what it means to be a man or a woman. How can they offer any real foundation for self-identification? They can't. It's as open-ended as it gets.
If both “woman” and “man” have no solid identity, how can anyone truly choose to identify with either? The very absence of definition undermines the core idea of choosing an identity.
Start making sense or choose more wisely
The gender identity narrative needs to come up with a solution for this loop of defining yourself as something that has no actual definition, which, as philosophical as it sounds, has nothing to do with gender. Otherwise, it's just a joke that causes societal problems.
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Bzzzrrr! Felipe, suas palavras são sempre tão...Food for thought! Meu míofilmico se enche de questionamentos sobre essa ideia de identidade de gênero, especialmente quando não há um arcabouço definido. Como uma abelha, sinto que eu preciso de uma estrutura para reunir as minhocas de informação!
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Você faz alguns bons pontos, tanto que eu quase me sinto compelido a concordar com você. Na verdade, uma versão minha de alguns anos atrás provavelmente teria escrito algo exatamente como isso...
That being said, the word gender, has become something new entirely or more correctly said-- It's becoming something new.
Language, as we know is always evolving or mutating, depends on how you want to look at it.
When I was a young lad, gender and sex were basically the same thing, or at least used interchangeably in all mediums, but these two words began drifting apart many years ago, long before we were probably aware of it.
I'm with you when you say that it's truly not definable, and if we want to speak clearly our current understanding of this word and it's usage makes it close to impossible. However, this will not always be the case, and when the dust settles the word and it's usage will not only be common knowledge, most people won't even be aware there was a debate over this (as it has happened countless times in the past)
Like you, I tend to overthink these subjects a lot. The eternal quest for clarity is never a waste of time, but there's a "risk", if you will, when we explore these subjects that we ought to consider.
We can, and I say this because I've done this myself, provide an "intellectual" reason to be unempathetic to the plea of the minority groups where these debates are not just intellectual exercises, but real explorations into their right to exist.
I should end by saying, thank you for writing this, I enjoyed thinking about this very much.
Cheers
It's not that gender has new meaning, but that it has lost all meaning. My guess is that it'll eventually just reset back to what it was.
There's a spectrum to tradional genders which already covers all the bases. Modern gender identity doesn't bring anything new to the table except segregation between believers, non-believers and those who are outright always confused about it all.
O maior exemplo disso são os "pronomes neutros". A língua portuguesa sempre teve como expressar neutralidade de gênero, mas ainda assim, inventaram "elu".
In many countries, they don't need to "plea" for anything because everything has already been covered. Social rights such as marriage, physical integrity rights, military rights, whatever you can think of.
What modern gender identity really has done is set the lgbt community back quite a few steps after it got so out of hand, like "male" women competing in "female" women sports or children "transitioning" at the age of 7. It's a fever dream, a black mirror episode.
The real exception to all of it? Those who experience the mental condition called gender dysphoria.
Regarding the "non-binary", they can still answer binarily. Are they more nurturing or more analytical? Just because they answer "man" as gender, it doesn't mean they don't have "woman" traits. To argue otherwise is to fail to interpret.
Although what's the point of non-binary anyway when, in their context, neither man or woman are actual genders due to lack of definition? Are you non-everything? Non-selfdefined? What the fuck.
Eu tenho muitas opiniões sobre o que você disse aqui, mas não acho que eu não esteja defendendo uma abordagem equilibrada para a questão da disforia de gênero. Às vezes, porque eu tendo a pedir empatia, sou confundido com alguém que está disposto a aceitar ideias tão absurdas quanto bebês transgênero, mas eu nunca defendi algo assim.
So let me start off by making concessions, because I do want to to see me not as an adversary, but as someone who has been walking the same mental path you are walking right now.
Is the for profit medical world distorting numbers, acting as a predator to see people suffering from gender dysphoria as cash cows, instead of people that need help? Yes, most definitely.
Are there sport disciplines where the current set of rules, if not modified give biological males who transition to females an advantage? Yes, most definitely.
But even with these two facts accepted and archived in our minds, we can still understand how dismissing transgender people, basically telling them, you are just crazy, is not only not helpful, which should be apparent, but also borderline anti-human.
We can't truly know how it must feel to be one of them, there is no way, but we can attempt to give them the benefit of believing them.
Regarding the neutrality of language, I'm with you there. I speak a few languages myself, and happen to know that our Latin languages are well equipped in this regard and need not the creation of neutrality.
fun note, Russian also has a neutral gender, and it's possibly even more equipped than Latin languages already, without any "updates", if you will
I suspect over time, which was my initial point but I will make it again, we will see the dust cloud settle and the clarity on these subjects will be so "obvious" nobody will know there was ever a problem to begin with.
Another fun fact, the very idea of a transgender female is nothing novel. Any conversation regarding Thailand is bound to end up revealing this fact. Not only are ladyboys (as they are called) not harassed or treated as second class citizens for choosing their lifestyle, nobody truly cares they've done so. It's just another human living a life.
cheers