Erasing of Biological Sex via Attack on Gendered Language
Corruption of Language Corrupts Our Thinking Too
Under noble covers of 'Diversity and Inclusion' all kinds of radical bullshit (banning of all gendered words and replacing them with gender neutral words) are being pushed down on Americans by their Democratic Party. Again, I want to clarify that I have nothing against diversity and inclusion in their proper, non Woke sense. I have nothing against trans people for whose sake this shit was formally done, either. Moreover I believe that most of actual trans people (that is, those with gender dysphoria), just like most of the gay people, just want to live their lives and be left in peace. They certainly don't want the destruction of female sports and of gendered language for their sake - and I know few trans people who didn't sign up under this bullshit, and condemned it even stronger than me. So I believe that having those trans opinions, I have a right to speak of those issues either.
Now, when I cleared myself of possible Woke accusations of 'transphobia' (though I believe the Woke would still accuse me of it for condemning their radical gender ideology but fuck them all, at least adequate people should take my meaning I hope), back to the main points. For some reason, trans activism was chosen by the Woke as their second main avenue to push all kinds of radical bullshit. The first avenue was racial one ofc, it's Critical Race Theory, BLM, 'anti-racism' and other such bullshit which uses racial justice as an excuse to push 'positive racial discrimination', also against Asians and Jews, to undermine all our Western culture and society at large as 'white supremacist', and to upend it to their radical Marxist needs eventually. Wokeness is a radical Marxism where race took place of a 'social class', and where everything is viewed via lenses of the race. Those people aim at destruction of our Western culture (they call it 'decolonization'), and they aim to cancel Shakespeare, Homer (it was already done in some of American universities just in case) and modern authors such as Tolkien and Lovecraft for being 'white supremacists'. No need to say that this shit would undermine and eventually destroy our culture, our very basic worldview, and our everything. This bullshit is totally nihilistic.
So, radical trans activism aimed at destruction of gendered language and concept of gender in society at large is the second part of destructive Woke ideology. They want to destroy 'evil white supremacist Western culture', and they want to erase the mere concept of gender. There is side goal to push kids on trans expensive medication to make Big Pharma rich but I believe that erasing of concept of gender is the main goal here. Together, 'anti racism' and 'gender inclusivity' complete the total destruction of Western society by the Woke.
Some people might not see how rewriting of the language and banning of gendered language would erase the mere fact of biological sex eventually. But language is a very powerful tool, and it was weaponized by the Woke of a recent to tremendous levels. The Woke had spent decades redefining things so good things we used to fight for - like equality, diversity, inclusion, social justice, etc. - mean entirely another things now (usually toxic totalitarian Woke bullshit). Now, they want to redefine and eventually erase gender.
Language is also very powerful tool in a way that it reflects our thinking, our worldview. We speak how we think. Being a native Russian who had mastered English and also learned some French and Finnish, I came to realize that language is much more than just a tool of communication. Language reflects our way of thinking at large. Idiomatic expressions, sentence structure, grammar - everything in language points to different modes of thinking, and by learning a language one can understand how its native speakers think.
The Woke know it pretty well. So by rewriting the language, they mean to change and to control our thinking. This is very dangerous. Another example to prove how dangerous and powerful this might be relates to terminology with regard to gay people in different languages during history. For example, in medieval Europe there was no neutral or positive term in any European language to denote gay people. There were only derogatory terms - 'sodomites', 'buggers' and so on. When there was no proper scientific term to denote gay people and homosexual relations, just offensive 'buggery' and 'sodomy', there was no wonder that it contributed to the hatred towards gay people and homosexuality a lot. Homosexuality didn't exist as a sexual orientation back in medieval Europe. It existed only as sinful act of 'sodomy' reflected in the language, and the language affected the way people were thinking.
When scientific research on homosexuality began in the West along with grass root movements for gay rights, language was also used as a weapon, this time to combat homophobia and homophobic way of thinking. The scientific term 'homosexuality' and later 'same-sex attraction' was coined in 19th century. Later on, words 'queer' and 'gay' which were initially also used as derogatory terms, were reclaimed by gay people and turned into self-chosen identification name for homosexuals. So, changing the language was a big part of a fight for gay rights.
Now do you see all the danger of banning gendered language? If there would be no gendered words, then there would be no gender. It's similar to when there was no word for homosexuality and for gay people, there was no homosexuality and no gay people. By easing gender from our language, the Woke want to erase it from our minds as well. We would eventually stop thinking of ourselves as of men and women, mothers and fathers, husbands and wives, daughters and sons. We will be just persons, parents, children, siblings...All gender-neutral. Mind you I don't mind using of gender neutral words per se. But I'm strongly against REPLACING of traditional gendered language with them, though. As an addition to it, gender neutral language is fine by me. But NOT as a full replacement.
Needless to say, I hardly could see how gendered language could 'harm and offend trans people'. It doesn't even exclude them to begin with. The fact that cis woman can be called a mother doesn't deny a trans woman the same privilege. Trans women are women after all, or are they womxn? Speaking of non binary people, they can use gender neutral language for themselves, no one prevents them from doing so. But there is absolutely no need to force everyone to do the same. Also, as a gay man, I am personally not offended by words 'mother' and 'father' in the least. I mean I have both of them, I have mum and dad. Even if I never could be a father of a traditional family myself, I could use gender-neutral language with regard to my personal future family. But there is absolutely no need for me to force everyone to do the same.
So, this bullshit isn't about 'inclusion' of trans, non binary or gay people at all. It's about erasing of the concept of gender via language. But the Woke are doing it not only via language. Forcing trans women into female sports or female bathrooms serves to push further the wrong and toxic idea that biology doesn't matter and doesn't even exist. The Woke claim that separation of male and female sports and bathrooms was done purely out of social - and hence, 'transphobic' - factors. They deny biological factors completely. They deny the scientific fact that at large, biological men are physically stronger than biological women, and, hence, to compete against biological males in sports would be unfair and even dangerous for biological females (same actually goes to trans men who'd try to compete against biological males). Bathrooms were separated by genders also due to different physiology which made use of pissoirs possible in male bathrooms, for instance. But the Woke deny all of that. They basically push the idea that there is absolutely no biological difference between men and women, and that a biological male who identifies as female, is absolutely no different from a biological woman (hence the Woke mantra 'trans women are women'). But that's also false, trans women are biologically different from cis women, even after transition, and even more so without transition. Different doesn't mean 'inferior' or 'worse' by the way, just different. But the Woke want to erase this mere difference.
By denying any biological differences between men and women, and by replacing gendered language with gender neutral, the Woke want to essentially erase the concept of gender per se, and to stop us to think of ourselves as of men and women at large. If this shit was pushed as far as in House of Representatives Rules already, and in all female sports in US at large, the Woke are very ambitious about it.
Some people may ask is it that bad if we would think of ourselves just as of persons, not as of men and women. Yeah this is bad. We need to TREAT each other as PERSONS irrespective to all our differences, but we shouldn't forget those differences either. We shouldn't be obsessed with them (as the Woke actually are obsessed with race) but we should acknowledge our differences still, not erase them. Even more so we shouldn't try to deny biology. That might prove simply dangerous.
It's also very ironic that the Woke claim that they are all for diversity, but they are butchering diversity currently. By pushing gender neutral language, the Woke butcher our gender diversity. By denying biological differences between genders, they deny that this diversity even ever existed. No, basically the Woke claim that we are all essentially the same, gender-neutral. That biological men could easily compete with women in sports if they feel like it - because there is no difference, after all. And so on.
Here we are coming to the most interesting part of this radical Woke ideology. It's actually also essentially transphobic! Because, if there is NO GENDER indeed, then WHAT transgenders are supposed to transcend? There should be gender in the first place in order for transgenders to transcend it. If there is no gender, there are no transgenders either. Moreover, if there are absolutely no biological difference between men and women, why to bother to identify as an opposite gender at all? There are no any biological differences anyway. Just be who you are, we are all the same after all lol. Gender dysphoria shouldn't exist either if there is no gender and no biological differences between men and women. I wonder do the Woke actually realize how transphobic they are in reality. Probably not or if yes, they don't give a shit since trans people and trans rights mean nil to them, they just use them as an excuse to push their radical perverted gender ideology.
Nicely explained. Bravo!
To your point about language influencing thought: https://thedecisionlab.com/reference-guide/linguistics/the-whorf-hypothesis#