How to take quotes of of context 101

Quote Originally Posted by linay View Post
It is as far as the normative effect of sexual difference is concerned: reproduction. There is no third sex for humans from which a new human individual can be conceived.
Quote Originally Posted by rachcouture View Post
Reproduction is irrelevant.
Quote Originally Posted by rachcouture View Post
Fertility or lack there of doesn't define someone's sex/gender.
Quote Originally Posted by whiskeybravo View Post
Reproductive organs =/= Fertility.
1. Not sure what point I made that I appear to be backtracking
2. Body parts do make a huge, if not the biggest, impact on determining gender
3. No, it's still a terrible example

Quote Originally Posted by rachcouture View Post
What you are discussing are socially ingrained gender roles; that is why you see an obvious pattern. There is, however, ultimately nothing biologically innate about any of those personality qualities whatsoever. A man can be soft and an excellent caregiver (single fathers), and a woman can be incredibly violent and sociopathic (one of the many female serial killers to exist throughout).
I don't think you are in a position to define what is biological and what is not, nor am I quite frankly. My point was that regardless of whether you think they're created biologically or socially, they do in fact exist. Nice of you to assume that because I didn't mention how lines can be crossed that I'm somehow oblivious to lines being crossed all the time. In the case of "men being soft" or "women being violent", we don't then say that men are always soft, or women are always violent - they remain exclusive to their "ingrained gender role" and we simply make an exception in that particular case.

Quote Originally Posted by rachcouture View Post
It's subjective.
Subjective based on what?

Quote Originally Posted by rachcouture View Post
It's not a medical condition. Medical procedures can, however, help. There is a big difference.
It is indeed, and if you fail to acknowledge that then you'll never escape it.

Quote Originally Posted by rachcouture View Post
You just don't like it because it doesn't support your ignorance.
Right back at ya.