The article isn't about identifying with being a woman or man. It's about how the body responds to exercise taken at different times of day. The study showed that morning exercise is more effective for a woman and evening exercise is more effective for a man. I think The Washington Post is using "gender" confusingly, in the old-fashioned way of being shy about the word "sex."
September 21, 2022
Gender? Don't they mean sex? How could it possibly depend on gender?
WaPo reports: "The best time of day to exercise can depend on your gender and even whether you want to burn fat or get stronger, according to a helpful new study of men, women and exercise timing."
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I think The Washington Post is using "gender" confusingly, in the old-fashioned way of being shy about the word "sex."
Well, it's complicated. When RBG used "gender" instead of sex, it was because RBG did not like the word "sex" on her lips. Prissy, in other words. WaPo is not, I think, prissy, but they are a bit gunshy about implying that persons have sexes. Won't that get you canceled? Isn't that some kind of nano-aggression? Maybe a pico-aggression? There are even researchers working on detecting femto-aggressions, although only black post-surgery Muslim trans lesbians can sense them at this time.
I would guess, in fact, that people who write for WaPo have written guidance on this topic, updated regularly
When's the best time to have sex?
Well, nobody can follow the new language rules, which is probably the point.
However- yeah, it makes sense that if burning more calories is your goal, a morning workout followed by a normal waking day of work and activities will burn more calories than an evening workout followed by dinner and sleep.
I have done both- I preferred working out in the morning once I got used to it, but I stopped once I retired and now work out in the mid afternoon. So I guess I am non-binary.
538. There is a related case (though perhaps it will not seem so) when, for example, we (Germans) are surprised that in French the predicative adjective agrees with the substantive in gender, and when we explain it to ourselves by saying: they mean: "the man is a good one."
- Wittgenstein, who for the example switches to thinking of sex.
Ann, Ann, Ann, lololo ...
THEY CANNOT EVEN DEFINE THE WORD WOMAN.
Stop expecting these mental gymnastics you are being gaslighted into to make sense. You cannot make sense of the actions of mentally ill psychopaths (one of whom is now on the Supreme Court).
Don't go down that road. Don't try to make sense of their gibberish. Or you will go mad with them.
RHARDONE asked: "When's the best time to have sex?"
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rhhardin said...
When's the best time to have sex?
i wouldn't know; but here's a somewhat similar question
When's the best time to go fishing?
and there are two different, yet both apparently correct answers,
one is: RIGHT NOW
the other is: Every chance you get
which one you think is more correct, says a LOT about You
"I think The Washington Post is using 'gender' confusingly..."
Absolutely. In fact, everybody to the left of Ron DeSantis is utterly confused regarding gender.
How to get un-confused: People and most multicellular eukaryotes have sex. Nuts and bolts have gender.
But mostly nuts.
So, they're shy about using that word, the same way some people are shy about using "man" and "woman", and, instead use "male" and "female".
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Aurora health's patient intake form no longer asks you what your sex is: what they want to know is, "what gender were you assigned at birth"?
I noticed the word "gender" replacing "sex" on all sorts of forms years ago and thought nothing of it: I figured they were just squeamish about asking outright to say what sex you were. But obviously there was something else behind that change.
So, it's not just that sex is said to be socially constructed. Reality itself, apparently, is also just a social construction. It's the new linguistics: language is not an (imperfect) description of reality, it is reality. And as Orwell pointed out, if you no longer have the words to say something then it becomes impossible to express certain ideas.
Thanks Quaestor, "Nuts and bolts have gender. But mostly nuts." NOW I understand.
It seems fairly straightforward to me. "Sex" is thoughtcrime - it is one of those concepts that may not be mentioned, because it does not, aka must not, exist. Thus even when you are writing an article which is obviously about sex, you may not say the word. You have to say "gender."
Its just Newspeak 101. The semantics of "gender" have nothing to do with distinguishing the ancient (entirely clear) biological concept of sex from the modern (entiely obscure) sociopolitical concept of gender. The point is to make the former concept unsayable and thus unthinkable.
I think The Washington Post is using "gender" confusingly, in the old-fashioned way of being shy about the word "sex."
And you'd be wrong.
I don't even think this is just semantics. The Democrats, and the Left in general, painted themselves into this corner through the contradiction of the beliefs in the 'Blank Slate' and 'Born This Way'. You can't simultaneously treat human beings as infinitely malleable and unconstrained by genetics or biology, and then pick selected things you want to claim are innate and/or unchangeable, especially when those things don't have any outward physical expression in the body. The contradiction wants resolution, and the resolution chosen at this moment is that the mind has the ability to override the body in some fashion that nobody seems willing to explain.
I have been saying for years that people should stop calling them "gender reveal parties" and should more correctly refer to them as "baby sex parties" but nobody will listen.
The problem for the prissy is that "sex" refers both to your DNA and to the act of procreation. You can look up "sex" on a porn site but not "gender". You could avoid this by saying "biological sex" which gets away from the procreation aspect, but that is now forbidden since your "gender" is assigned at birth (in some arbitrary patriarchal way).
ccscientist said...
You can look up "sex" on a porn site but not "gender"
Wanna bet?
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