Total makes a pretty valid point -- the whole debate has been ruined because of counter culture nonsense. One group of idiots will see another group of idiots screaming, and instead of just ignoring them, or avoiding them like most normal people, they felt the need to either scream back at them, or scream over them, leading us to a sort of scream-culture war. Because of the outrageous "Superwholock" people as someone in the thread put it, people are basically terrified of letting there be any merit to what they say or having any sort of neutral, middle-groundish stance on the topic, because heaven fucking forbid you agree with one of those people on anything, you'd be just as bad as them!
The point I want to make with this is that it's ultimately harmless. Are there 2 genders? Well, that's a tough question, because there's several perspectives with their own individual answer. In a language that has a he, she, and neutral they, IE English, it would be three. There are 2 sexes, but they are not the same as genders. I think that there are essentially 2 "main" genders, and the recent boom of "gender revolution" or whatever you want to call it where people "invent" new genders aren't actually genders, they're just new forms of expression and coping mechanisms for a rise in gender dysphoria.
What I wanna know is why everyone gets so militantly up in arms about it. It's like saying there's only two kinds of clothing: shirt and pants, you absolutely can't wear anything else. Clothing, much like the "new genders" are just new forms of expression and nothing more. It doesn't mean someone is rewriting their sex, nor has anyone ever actually argued that they are, despite the countless arguments in this thread against such a blatant strawman. It just means someone is expressing themselves with different terms, and behaviors, that do not conform to the standard norms of male and female, of which there are already numerous deviations of to begin with.
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Holy fuck this too. Liberal as a term has gone from someone who is big on individual rights to essentially part communist, part hippie, part anti-american, and it's driving me nuts. Identity politics were a mistake, and this shit right here is why I think we should just abolish the party system
entirely.