I've thought about it a lot in terms of language constantly changing. I hate the way language is changing to reflect modernism. However, in terms of my children I want them to say boy or girl/male or female for now, but I sometimes say gender if I am talking to another adult in front of them. The reason why...I don't want them saying the word "sex" and being misunderstood in today's perverse society. My children are seldom out of my presence but I don't want the use of the word and a misunderstanding, or even a bad comment to turn into a discussion that we don't need to have. It is also a safeguard for them not to know the word for many other reasons, most of them having to do with situations that could hurt their innocence and purity.

I've thought about it a lot in terms of language constantly changing. I hate the way language is changing to reflect modernism. However, in terms of my children I want them to say boy or girl/male or female for now, but I sometimes say gender if I am talking to another adult in front of them. The reason why...I don't want them saying the word "sex" and being misunderstood in today's perverse society. My children are seldom out of my presence but I don't want the use of the word and a misunderstanding, or even a bad comment to turn into a discussion that we don't need to have. It is also a safeguard for them not to know the word for many other reasons, most of them having to do with situations that could hurt their innocence and purity.

What about the word "virgin"? I didn't know what it meant until I was about 11, but I remember being asked before then if I was a virgin, and I wasn't sure, but I thought it might be blasphemous to say that I was, because it might be a title peculiar to the Virgin Mary!

(Kids would ask things like that to catch you out, along with questions like "Are you a homo sapien (sic)?" and "Are you a heterosɛҳuąƖ?")

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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.  

A very disquieting observation I've made in recent years when talking to college students (and recent graduates) is that the new, false distinction between sex and gender is now taken as an article of faith, a priori. This artificial deconstruction of the concept of sex (for which the poor, innocent grammatical term "gender" was deceptively conscripted into service) is the reason why the disorder of transɛҳuąƖism has, in the space of 1-2 decades, been made over and rehabilitated into the "culture" of "transgenderism."

If you protest that a person's sex is an immutable, objective ontological fact, the well-educated 25 year old moron will respond "Oh no, 'sex' and 'gender' are two totally different concepts... 'sex' is physical, 'gender' is psychological." And then this unthinking young man (or woman. or... whatever) will proceed to explain that this means that, if a person's physical "sex" is not in accord with his or her psychological "gender," then the former may be (nay, must be) surgically altered to conform with the latter.

I have therefore come to see the widespread conflation of "gender" and "sex" in everyday parlance as an ongoing social engineering campaign; something akin to the "time bombs" the late Michael Davies spoke of: First, get the public to use the grammatical term "gender" in place of the word "sex" under a pretense of preservation of decorum. Second, see to it that "sex" and "gender" soon become so conflated that they are used interchangeably. Finally, invent from whole cloth college courses called "gender studies / theory" in order to implant the idea that "sex" and "gender" are indeed separate, distinct concepts, but not in the sense once universally understood; rather that "sex" shall henceforth refer to the merely physical condition of the person (completely alterable) and "gender" shall refer to the psychological "self-identification" of the person, to be respected and revered above all else, including (especially) the formerly universally accepted objective, God-given, ontological fact of sex.  

This error is now so widespread, so universally presumed, it is in the very air we breathe. No quarter of society is beyond its reach.

Impygate, anyone?