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As I experienced it, the word "gender" started to be used
in place of "sex" on paperwork, like application forms and
government docuмents, sometime in the late 1970s. As
I recall, I first saw it on a DMV form (motor vehicles) in
1978. I recall having thought it was really stupid that they
would remove the proper word, "sex," from the form and
replace it with a word that means a grammatical case of
a word, not the physical reality of the person that the
word represents. At the time, it seemed to me that the
department form no longer was asking for what sex the
applicant is, but rather what's the gender that he would
like his name to represent.
Looking back at it now, it's more like, "HOW WOULD YOU
LIKE TO PRESENT YOURSELF TODAY, AS MALE OR FEMALE?"
The word "man" is masculine gender, but the man is of the
male sex -- in an objective world, that is. But our world
these days is no longer objective, but has become subjective.
And now, as others have pointed out in this thread, we are
living in a time when the innocence of children is at stake.
And therefore, the wiles of a perverted culture dictates the
proper use of language, even among people who are not
perverted themselves.
Such as a priest giving a sermon - he should be able to say
"sex" when that is the appropriate term. But now, the word
might bring the wrong thoughts to children listening to him.
So, the rules of language use are changed by perverts, and
good men are forced to comply with their gutter ideals.
Only when the ilk of Howard Stern and others have their
way, does the word "sex" become a thing of salacious
and prurient interest, no longer meaning the chromosomal
identity of a man or beast but the activity in which they
would be capable of engaging, directed normally toward the
procreation or progeneration of their respective species.
Our Lady has been quoted as saying that she desires
that the youth of America become devoted toward
the pursuit of purity in thought, word and deed.