Quote from shaggievara
On a side note... You can't influence your kid to be gay. It just doesn't work that way. Considering that gender identity isn't directly related to sexuality, I'm not even sure what that has to do with this. But I don't know what your dwarf comment does either.
Quote from Kitteh_13
You cannot change your sexuality but gender is something different. I hope to God the parents teach the child about it's sexuality because that is an important part of self knowledge. There are physical differences between men and women that have nothing to do with gender.
Honestly, I don't care much about gender identity... but I just don't understand how people are just brushing aside the comparisons to sexuality.
Everyone is so sure that sexuality can't be changed... but apparently gender identity is
completely different! What the Heck.
How can we deny that they are both strongly correlated to gender? The relationship is both
strong and
causal.
Hypermajority of boys will end up being sexually attracted to girls. Hypermajority of boys will identify themselves as boys, prefer more aggressive forms of recreation, yadda yadda.
Born a boy --> attracted to girls later on in life
Born a boy --> identify with male gender later on in life
Strong and causal.
I have no problem with LGBTs (literally half of the friends I made in college were gay/lesbian), but no one denies that they are exceptions. The norm is for boys to be attracted to girls, and girls to be attracted to boys. PC standards are that they don't have a choice in the matter. I can buy that.
Girls who identify themselves as boys into adulthood are also exceptions, not the norm. Why is the PC standard such that they do have a choice in the matter? Why is this completely different from sexuality aside from the fact that we don't want to hurt people's feelings? (We want little boys and girls to think that they can be whatever they want to be and do whatever they want to do without being discriminated against. That's fine and all. Very "feel good", and I can respect that. Is there more to it?)
Seriously. I am curious. Thanks.
(And if it is really just so that girls don't feel left out of certain traditionally male occupations and vice versa, well, isn't it possible to just explain logically that with social and technological advancement, many traditionally male occupations can easily be handled by women, regardless of biological differences and gender identity?)
EDIT:
Also, I'm a bit confused about that above statement:
"There are physical differences between men and women that have nothing to do with gender."What in the world is that supposed to mean?
Aren't physical differences between men and women by definition gender-defined?
Last edited by N0x_ at 12:38 am, Jun 3 2011