Posted on 01/25/2018 11:22:52 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
Lets stop polluting our language with the word gender. Corruption of the English language was Point A on the road to President Obamas directive to de-privatize and de-sex all school restrooms nationwide. The ploy that got us all into the lazy habit of using the empty term gender in place of the accurate word sex has its roots in gender ideology, which cultural Marxists pushed for many decades. Since cultural Marxism is nothing but nihilism, it shouldnt surprise us that gender can mean whatever you want or dont want it to mean. In other words, theres no there there.
George Orwells classic 1946 essay Politics and the English Language discusses how easily language can be a tool of political manipulation. Heres a great excerpt that I think shows us how we got to todays state of confusion:
A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, and then fail all the more completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts. The point is that the process is reversible.
Dont you love Orwells positive note here, that the process is reversible? If we inject proper usage back into the language, the habit can catch on, and our thoughts can become clearer.
Orwell continues:
Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to take the necessary trouble. If one gets rid of these habits one can think more clearly, and to think clearly is a necessary first step towards political regeneration. But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation, even among people who should and do know better.
A lot of us who do know betterincluding yours trulyhave fallen into the silly habit of substituting the weaponized word gender for the precise word sex. Now theres hell to pay, since its infecting all manner of legislation and legal documentsall in the name of equality, another term thats become equal to nothing.
Lets recall that the most accurate usage of the term gender is strictly grammatical, as when referring to noun and adjective declensions in foreign languages that assign gender to its words. Yes, yes, I know the dictionary has assigned new and richer meanings to the term gender, having to do with society, culture, and identity. This is totally political. Dictionaries have been turned into political minefields by activists in this war on mind and body. We should all be able to see through this by now.
How Money Replaced Sex with Gender
Apparently, the substitution of the word sex with the vague word gender was the hobbyhorse of John Money back in the 1950s. Money was the corrupt sexologist who is most notorious for utterly ruining the life of David Reimer by talking his parents into raising David as a girl after a botched circumcision left him without a penis. Money drooled at the chance to experiment on little David because David happened to have an identical twin brother who could serve as a control for Moneys little inquest. In the 1970s, feminists took off with Moneys new lexicon, and weve been sloppily repeating the word gender ever since.
Gender doesnt mean anything concrete when applied to human identity because gender identity is all about a state of mind thats not rooted in any objective reality. Sex, on the other hand, is quite definitely rooted in physical reality. Yet when sex makes an appearance in gender identity non-discrimination laws, it is masked as something that doesnt exist in reality. A standard definition of gender is that it means someones perception of self (as male, female, both, or neither) whether or not it aligns with the sex they were assigned at birth. Part of the premise of transgender law is to get you to believe that your sex was erroneouslyand even maliciouslyassigned to you at birth.
Jurisdiction after jurisdiction has signed on to that canard. It forces onto us a fraudulent premise that denies the reality of our own physical bodies. Ten Republican U.S. senators even signed on to this ridiculously false premise back in 2013. Neat trick, no? We now have hundreds of jurisdictions nationwide with laws that de-sex us. They essentially tell us that biological sex is not something any of us are, but something we have. Or dont have.
In the past we recognized sex at birth or identified sex at birth. (Today we can identify it well before birth.) But nowvoila!our laws say sex is assigned to us at birth. How insane is that?
To be human is to be male or female. To be human is to be the living, breathing union of one male and one female. No exceptions. This is the case whether you are male or female or intersex, and, yes, even if you identify as transgender. Furthermore, our sex is not a body part. It is inscribed into the DNA of every cell in our bodies.
Denying the reality of ones biological sex is, in a real sense, a denial of ones whole body and mind. As society and its laws cover up these facts, we stray closer to a society that can decline to recognize the full humanity of any human being. This is not a good place to be. Not for anybody, including the LGBT folks who are being used as pawns to commit this virtual crime against humanity.
So what happens if we replace in our laws a concrete word like sex with an abstraction like gender? Can sex distinctions still legally exist?
The Flesh Made Word
British philosopher Daniel Moody recently published a slim volume that analyzes some of the linguistic sorcery that has muddled so much thinking about human reality today. Language, he notes, is our interpreter between the realm of reality and the realm of law. So when words in law no longer point to reality, we end up living under false law. In his work, titled The Flesh Made Word, Moody boldly explores how the invention of gender necessitates ejecting physical sex from man-made law.
We are not being governed by a law that reflects reality, even though we may think we are.
The book is a wild ride through the looking glass of what Moody might call gender-land, a place where anti-reality and nothingness replaces what weve heretofore always known to be real. Instead of recognizing our bodies, the law grants us permission to haunt our bodies. Moody asks, What would happen if we were to house inside legality an idea which contradicted reality with regard to the nature of the human body? Would our bodies even exist in the eyes of this false law?
Our bodies in transgender law are represented by words that do not point to any realities about our wholeness as human beings. Thats because sex and gender are as far apart conceptually as is possible, according to Moody. Sex and gender are linked only by the thin threads of language and the human mind. Like an atomic bomb vaporizing bodies and leaving only shadows.
In this sense, we are not being governed by a law that reflects reality, even though we may think we are. Instead, we are living under false law that only allows the word genderwhich signifies the absence of our physical sexto define us.
In this sense, transgender law makes us legally invisible: Man has been ejected from man-made law. Indeed, to neuter everybody legallywhich is what transgender law doesis to disregard the wholeness of every human being, to disregard each humans origins. Moodys assessment investigates just how such a linguistic time bomb operates.
Lexical Tips For Sanity
Social engineers language manipulation is always intentional from the outset. In this case, it was intended to muddle our thinking so gender would borrow from reality without being at all attached to it.
So the goals for those who wish to re-anchor to the world of reality are: stand firm, attach language to reality, and reject anti-realityand to do so with good cheer, without any intent to offend. Herein follow some modest suggestions to help reclaim the language.
DO use the word sex in place of the slippery term gender. The main effect of gender ideology is to replace sex, a word that points to something real and recognizable, with gender, which exists only in a persons mind. Succumbing to usage of the term gender is a trap that sucks you into Orwellian anti- reality.
DO consider scratching the term gender off forms, and replace it with sex before checking the box, whenever possible. You are a sex: male or female. Again, gender doesnt really exist except in any given persons mind, and is ever-changeable. In this way, you can also reclaim your body in documentation.
DONT play the gender game. Example: I dont have a gender. But my sex is female. Rather, I am female. Another example: I dont have a gender identity. I do have a human identity which is whole and complex. I happen to be male because that happens to be the sex I am.
DONT get sucked into the mind game of cisgender. Cisgender is a totally weaponized term that forces even more de-sexing in society. Its also a pejorative term that is supposed to mean that your mind just so happens to allow your assigned sex to exist alongside your gender identity. In gender ideology, a cisgender person is inferior to a transgender person.
Politely insist you are the male sex or the female sex, which actually matches up with your chromosomes. Period. Since the prefix cis means on the same side as (as opposed to trans, which means to cross over), perhaps you can cheerfully add that you are cis-reality.
DONT say gender neutral. DO use other more accurate terms, such as de-sexed or de-privatized bathrooms. De-sex is particularly accurate when referring to what the state is doing to every one of us when transgender law insists that the term gender is superior to the reality-based term sex. Example: The phrase sex assigned at birth de-sexes us. Unisex is far preferable to gender neutral in referring to clothing styles or hairstyles or any other material things that uniformly apply to both sexes.
DONT say gender non-conforming. Sex-non-conforming is more accurate. The transgender idea, after all, is not to conform to the verified reality of the male or female sex.
DONT get trapped in conflating intersex with gender identity. Intersex people are not transgender, though transgender activists use them to promote the agenda of gender ideology. The fact that anomalies exist in nature doesnt cancel out the realities of nature, but actually accentuates them. Every single human beingmale, female, intersex, or transgendergot here the same way: through the union of one male and one female.
When introduced to someone, DO agree to use that persons preferred name, whether or not he or she identifies as transgender. A preferred name is just that: a name or nickname someone says he or she likes to be called. Unless you are being asked to call someone a name you feel is offensive or obscene, there is no reason not to refer to someone by his or her preferred name. This is not a major concession, even if the person is not well. This is simply an act of goodwill, and can open the door to communication.
DONT get sucked into the chaos of pronoun protocols. Unless a transgender individual is within earshot and needs to be humored, we should not feel compelled to use his or her preferred pronoun. Few understand how deep this rabbit hole is becoming, with more individuals insisting on being referred to in the plural: as they or ze. More are what Walt Heyer calls gender defiant, which is a more accurate term than gender non-conforming. The goal is only to sow confusion.
A caveat: Your employer may require you to comply, and you should avoid placing your job in jeopardy. But as much as possible, keep your mind clear. Save your energy. Use your best judgment and consideration for others feelings (and obsessions or mental state) as well as your employers policies to decide the best course of action. Awareness of language manipulation is key. Remember: these laws arent about protecting transgender individuals. They are about controlling everybody else.
DO always respect the dignity of each and every human being. The growth of transgender phenomenon shouldnt surprise us at all. Its another manifestation of so much brokenness in modern society. Family breakdown hurts children far more than we care to admit. Community breakdown follows.
When brokenness and alienation set in, more people resort to wearing masks and personas of various kinds. A persona is a coping mechanism, and the noxious effects of social media and communications technologies only makes this more contagious and intense. Most transgender individuals are being used as pawns in an increasingly obvious scheme to grow government at the expense of everybodys civil liberties, including their own. So be kind to people, especially as they show kindness to you.
DO point out inconsistencies in the logic of gender identity anti-discrimination laws whenever you can. Insist that age identity and race identity be added to protected categories. Non-discrimination on the basis of identity should play out in more than one way. Ive been saying for a while that age-identity discrimination is far more widespread and endemic than any other kind. I, for one, dont identify with the age I was assigned at birth, and have experienced discrimination based on this. Timing is everything, and we are at such a critical mass now with these dangerous laws, that its time to call the bluff of the government-corporate complex.
DO stand with those who speak out for truth and freedom as much as you are able. You would be surprised how emboldening this can be, not just to the person who was the first to speak out but to others who would follow suit if they knew they werent alone. The whole point of political correctness is to make you feel all alone in your thoughts.
One more time: Lets stop saying the word gender and revive the word sex. Submission to gender terminology is futile. Only resistance will work. So start using the word sex to help yourself and others clarify language, and thereby restore our ability to think.
G. Gotdon Liddy was railing on this misuse at least 17 years ago..,
Maybe that’s where I picked up on it. I was just telling my kids “No people have a ‘sex’ - male and female - word’s have gender, like in France and stuff.” (I’ll have to read this article more closely, as I’m guessing there is more to the term “gender” than what I recall from 10th grade French class.
When I was younger I appreciated the word ‘gender’ because saying ‘sex’ made me blush.
I have irritated quite a few people correcting this.
Or first grade english class.
word’s?
REALLY?
Ok, you’re dumb, and I’ve been drinking. I’m sorry. Shouldn’t have brought it up.
Am I required to start misusing it so I can "stop?"
Oh, God...you have kids.
Send them to shcool please.
But what about the gender-bender... seriously.
So... Gender ought to refer to inanimate things like words and garments, and sex to animate things.
“He” is a masculine or neutral gender word. “She” is a feminine gender word. We can have hats for either or both genders.
A dog or a human has a sex.
Don’t you try and sex my dog, mister. Or we’re gonna have a kerfuffle.
Veterinarians sex puppies... And sometimes de-sex them.
That does not sound pleasant.
I sometimes use the word gender because of the oversexualization bombarding us and particularly the young. Even I did a double take when I thought you were spontaneously reminding kids that “people have sex”. :)
Me too. Even now it seems some men become derailed in conversation if I use the word sex the right way. Jane Austen movie she says: You think I’m too severe upon my sex? (too negative against women) and I paused to think it odd that in 1800 the word sex was not freighted with linked images, movies, jokes etc. :)
Ok. Then we will call it plumbing
Good article, thank you for posting.
Language is such a powerful way of gaining control over a society. Young people are all parroting what they learned in school and on TV about the 63 + imaginary genders. The number changes depending on who you talk to.
Kids are taught that gender is a continuum and is, thus, non-binary.
To a thinking being, its absurd.
But, its also extremely destructive. The ultimate goal is the destruction of the traditional family unit, the most solid bulwark we have in preserving our way of life. Blow up the family unit, make it some archaic relic of the past, and you will end up with a nation full of unmoored dolts, ripe for the plucking.
Male and Female gender....
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