The re-definition* of words has been a recent issue on the internet. (Which is, I think, kind of naive, coming from the internet: the internet is not a perfect representation of word usage and the masses interpretation of words.) Gender is such an example. Gender comes from Latin genus, meaning race, order, tribe, or any such thing. Now, this likely has no previous denotation allowing some degree of choice of your genus, but gender has become more fluid with recent definitions. The problem comes in specificity. Gender in what way? Do you mean what you tend to live as, in what fashion and manner? Or do you mean what biological association you were born with? The debate is often between which matters - but with speciifc word choice the argument disappears. Biological Gender and Social/Personal Gender would also work. But these weaken the words, and weaken the political impact which is carried in inherent definition. Saying social gender weakens the word gender away from already being what people identify as. Personally, I do not really want to change words in a certain direction. My recommendation is to use another word; make your own, if you so wish. Either way, my wishes and desires should not affect you solely because I wish a certain way, but because you agree with me. And words themselves should be used in however way you feel. This discussion itself is hard and I dont know where I stand (and perhaps it is a pointless discussion anyhow). Remember to keep original meaning somewhere; keep the emotion of what hundreds of years of connotation has built for the sake of understanding - for the native speakers at the very least - if you at all wish to steer your language in order to make it more personal or easy. *or argument that words have always had a certain definition
Posted on: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 06:55:18 +0000
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