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no, the bargain struct between progressives and everyone else was that sex was the biological categories of male and female and they were defined by biology; and gender or gender roles was agreed to be the social constructs of woman, man and what have you. Of course, as with anything else the progressives are beginning to renege on the deal (like with the abortion one), and there have been an encroachment of gender on sex, but it still hasn't spread.
Nobody on the right even understands that deal. Agree they are reneging on that. I’m fine with some people being transexual - biologically fuck up.
Gender is a social construct ? I’ve never had a female buy me dinner because she made more than me. Sounds fun. Doesn’t happen.
The deal is not exclusively between progs and republicans, but progs and everyone else including moderate democrats.
So? what is your point there?. I'm just telling you what it has been agreed, if you have a problem with it because females don't pay for your dates take it with them. You can begin by going to the wikipedia page referring with genders (not a perfect source of the definition but it's there at least) and fight it out with the editors there if you want.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender
Again no one besides yourself agreed to this deal.
I never made this deal. I’ve never even heard of this deal.
Well, I'm sorry to say that the deal was struck already and it doesn't matter your feelings on the subject. I honestly abhor it as anything else feminist but I can't do anything about it, so you are incorrect in that I agreed to this deal.
Notice I'm only saying how it is, I'm not prescribing or advocating here.
If you don't agree to the deal that is fine and your right, but recognize that it will be difficult if not impossible to void as it was made by society at large and a single individual won't affect it.
How can you just say a deal was “struck”. I’ve never even heard of this deal and I’m online too much. We never voted on it. Your the only person who says it exists.
You are just making things up. There’s just some deal in your head no one else has even heard of.
Don't think of it too literally, it wasn't a group of people in a conference room signing papers; it was done how everything else is agreed upon in society. A new idea came up in the zeitgeist, in this case the progs idea of Gender and Sex being separate and all that and it gained traction until it became mainstream. But because progs are progs they are pushing again to "Alter the Deal" and merge the 2 again but with their bullshit definitions tacked in.
This just isn’t a thing. I’ve never heard about it before. And most of society has heard about this deal we all agreed to. This just isn’t broadly accepted.
This sounds like internal Democrat agreement. Where the neoliberals made a deal with the progs. But the other 50% of the population never even heard of this agreement. This feels like something that is true in your bubble but not true in broader society.
I only found out transsexuals existed 18 months ago, so I think your way off base that broader society has made agreement on these issues. Most normies have no idea what your talking about.
Sir I will buy the rock you've been hiding under for ten million dollars. You don't even have to move out, just let me live there.
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oh, wow. Speaking of bubbles yours looks to be pretty airtight. Anyway, considering your life situation, I don't think continuing this discussion is really worth the time spend; so let's agree to disagree.
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Gender is merely a social construct is a first principle of feminism and also provably incorrect.
Everything follows from this faulty first step, including swapping genders and/or sex by simply declaring it so.
yes, I agree. In my head sex is the same as gender, it was how I learned about the world and think gender roles are made up bullshit.
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