Re: [lojban] Gender, yet again.

[vitci'i <celestialcognition@gmail.com>]

On 07/12/2012 11:46 PM, Jonathan Jones wrote:
> I'm saying that the English word "gender" is too broad to be one Lojban
> word, and that the only portion of it that is important is biological.
> Societal gender is not, to me, important at all. It doesn't matter to me
> what gender- in any sense of the word- a person is, except in the
> biological sense, and even then, only for reasons of biological/medicinal
> purposes. (Like if I want to have kids, or I need to treat a relevant
> illness.)

Even if you personally don't care about societal gender, it's still a
thing that a lot of people care about and are affected by. You don't get
to delete words from the dictionary just because they aren't to your taste.

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