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I often disagree with Jonah Goldberg and the rest of National Review on social/cultural matters but I think he nailed it here:
- So, imagine you’re a young Saudi guy logging on to Facebook for the first time. It asks you to state your gender. It then gives you 58 options. You take out your fingers — the simple man’s calculator — and start counting along. Male, female, whatever uncle Ahmed is . . . okay three. I count three.
What are these other 55 things?
You might think: Maybe those burkas don’t just cover women?
Then again, maybe it is better that trans-ethnic, otherkin, furry-bronies publish their headmate's identities on Facebook so the rest of us can be better prepared if we encounter them in what we call real life.
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Geckos_Rule · 4064 days ago · link ·
I think the difference is that they are differentiating between sex (dick or vagina) and gender (commonly self-identified).
coffeesp00ns · 4068 days ago · link ·
Glad to have the opinion of a doctor or a psychologist. You are a doctor or psychologist who's educated enough in the medical field to make such a black and white statement... right?