#just say yours: orientation and cromossomes

[raytyger]

Can we talk about how gender specification in language is dumb? Like, almost always.

The only theoretical usefulness would be to explain a person or animal gender, but just saying it afterwards should be enough.

I don't know someone's appearance nor personality based on their names. Why the "*.:';" should I know their gender?

And then there are several languages that use gender for things without gender. Why would a chair be female and the floor male? That's just non-sense.

turns out a bunch of legal code specifically refers to people as “he or she.” the implication being that as a nonbinary individual i am clearly ungoverned by law