Non-binary option for characters, please?

[Jandor]

Yeah, and all of that is ridiculous. Forks and spoons are just inanimate silverware; they don't have a gender.

Did you just call his language ridiculous?...

Any dictionary or encyclopedia or whatever nowadays that equates sex and gender is wrong.

"Could it be me that's wrong? No, no it's everyone else who is wrong."

[BillyKaplan]

"Could it be me that's wrong? No, no it's everyone else who is wrong."

Language is an ever evolving thing, so dictionaries are temporary by their very definition. It's also why you see hardcopy dictionaries and encyclopedias keep getting new releases instead of just the old ones being reprinted - those things change and evolve.

And as someone whose native tongue is gendered to an extreme, yes, that sort of thing is ridiculous. Especially since languages tend to break their own rules more often than not when dealing with gendered words. "Oh if it ends in this string of letters, it's female, other than this collection of words, that are male". To this day I remember a test I took where I got one of those nonsense questions wrong but even the teacher missed it and I got full marks.

The only good thing that comes out of it is watching the mortified looks on people's faces when I use the 'wrong' gendered words for myself. Some people are so fragile.

[kikix12]

Language is an ever evolving thing, so dictionaries are temporary by their very definition.

You know the problem with this logic here?!

What I said is that you can use "gender" in any case you can use "sex", but it is not correct the other way around.

Let's now consider who agrees with it, alright?

Dictionaries/encyclopedias.
Scientists.
Biologists.
Journalists.
Linguists.
Writers.
Game developers.
Doctors.
In general, entertainment industry.
Politicians.
General public.
Some of the minorities.

Who does NOT agree with it?!
Small part of some of the minorities.
Some supporters of the certain minorities.


Now then, do you see the problem?! The language is ever-evolving, yes. However, the list is vastly larger for the supporters of what I said against the ones contesting it.

I'm not saying that what that person is saying won't be correct in a decade, two, five. I'm saying that it is NOT CORRECT NOW. It is not. This word did NOT yet evolve into what that poster is claiming to be correct. It may be in the process of doing that (as I acknowledged, and dictionaries did as well), but that process is not yet at a stage where what I said stopped being correct.