goddammit why is everyone so fucking stupid.

u/potsandpans was citing the dumbass argument that:

sex and gender are the same because science hur dur dur

i said that the definitions of words can’t be proven scientifically, which is fucking true! the definitions of words aren’t determined by laws of the universe, they are determined subjectively, by what people think the words mean and how they use them. If anything it falls under the realm of social science - anthropology maybe.

you seem to be saying that the scientific community finds utility in using words a certain way (which is true), but that is not “scientific proof” that those words are defined that way.

my comment obviously implied that the tradition of gender and sex being the same thing was wrong just as the tradition of believing the sun revolves around the earth was wrong (seriously it was a simple metaphor).