Lago PARANOIA wrote:Okay, this is on the face of it wrong for many reasons, but since people have already slammed you with 'you're an ignorant fuckstick for insisting this' angle, I'll start out with the science-based one, because Lago always loves using the stupid bigotry of other people to educate the people at home.
LAGO, you missed the polite end to the conversation. Hello?
Also, no one's slammed me with this "ignorant fuckstick" angle. Crissa has been running around like an idiot quoting random blogs with no relation to the topic because a Tea Bagger apparently dumped her or something, but so far I'm conducting myself in what I feel is an appropriate way.
Which is to treat people accordingly.
And that means being a jackass to jackasses like you.
Sex is a biological construct, gender is a sociological (and thus psychological) construct. This is why Data is a male and KOS-MOS is a female despite having no chromosomes. You want a real-world example? Google the term 'sworn woman'.
The English language doesn't differentiate between biological females and sociological females. They're both called the exact same terms, but it generally doesn't matter since usually the sex and gender match up. but sometimes they don't, which is why people are transgendered. Yeah, society assigns people gender--much like society assigns a bunch of labels like N-word and feminazi and all that shit. But in our marginally more enlightened age, people have the choice to divest certain labels. Cielingcat will probably never in her lifetime be able to get rid of the 'XY chromosome male' label, but she can do something about the 'gendered male' one just as easily as people can just say 'no, I'm not a feminazi' or 'no, I'm not a pinko Red-loving communist'.
Did you miss the fact I was referring to the procedure and not the person?
Hmmm... yes you did. Very much.
I want my apology please. But I honestly don't expect it. Because you behave like a jackass more concerned with "winning" and "beating down" the other guy.
So with that tidbit over, let me say in no uncertain terms: Zinegata, you are a coward. You are trying to use the ambiguities in the English language to hide behind your prejudice. Fortunately, both common sense and science proves you to be the sniveling weasel you really are.
LAGO, I pretty much tell people in no uncertain terms that they are a bitch or an idiot, or a moron. However, like I have repeatedly said I'm totally cool with calling people what they want to be called if it makes them happy.
The only condition is that you don't be a jackass in return. It's called being
civil.
Don't mistake civility for cowardice.
And the truth is LAGO, is that you're one of the raging liberal idiots I keep talking about. That's why you take pleasure when supposed bigots have to grind their teeth at stuff like gay marriage. Except that a lot of those people probably aren't bigots at all. You just think they are, because you've caricatured them under the label of bible-thumping dumb right wingers instead of people.
And that's the only reason why you're being self-rightous right now. You already have a caricature of me. And you prefer to cling to that caricature because it's
easy to hurl insults at a caricature and not a real person.
You're just as bad as Kaelik honestly. Maybe a little worse.
Oh, and yeah, I do have a prejudice, but it's not towards the transgendered.
I have a prejudice towards hacks who put ideology over common sense.
I have a prejudice towards hacks who put ideology over believing that people aren't assholes just because they cling to beliefs they don't hold.
And that's why you, Crissa, and Ganbare have me to play with
.
Jackass.