Yeah, I don’t need to open every god-damned automated email, and I’m good enough at math to see the counter and know if it’s gone up.

“Sex” has been widely used to refer to what you called “gender” for over 40 years, and the distinction was first made about 65 years ago by John Money. It’s not a matter of being “not up to date,” as if this happened since you went to college - it’s a matter of being clear with your message.

What I outlined is not a “psychological/cultural concept of what a man/woman ‘should’ be” (that would be a gender role) but the technical academic vocabulary that allows us to deconstruct gender identity in the first place. In confusing gender and sex, you’re trading clarity for absolutely no advantage in describing…

Gender is purely what organs you have: male, female, both or neither.

The idea of gender performance comes from sociology (Erving Goffman, for instance, in The Presentation of Self) and later from gender studies (Judith Butler’s concept of performativity in Gender Trouble and Bodies that Matter). It’s been often used (and misused) widely.

Paying attention to how they treat others doesn’t always work.

I only count four dimensions: vertical, horizontal, back and forth in time, and between time streams / verses. Am I miscounting?

Taking a photo of a parent who very obviously missed her child and making up a scenario where she was happy to kill children to “ma[k]e a better America” is a terrible and misleading way to make a point about how the US’s imperialistic policies kill civilians in other countries and write them off as collateral damage.

They often start earlier than that. My high school had a JROTC program.

Personally, I’d go with:

I would say the vast majority of them are joining with no real understanding of what they are signing up for, not from their own perspective, and certainly not from the military’s perspective.

To obtain this ID, it requires, birth certificate, employment, marriage license, proof of citizenship, address and previous residence.

What. The. Everliving. Fuck.

Financial experts, at least popular ones, have an interest not in your individual financial well-being, but in selling their image and product. Their advice in general strokes is good enough to mass market, but it should be taken with a heavy grain of salt that it likely doesn’t apply to you in full, and isn’t…

Jerry might be, but he wouldn’t want to talk about it around the office so as not to have to explain why he would (reluctantly) vote for Trump.

Exactly, which is why I posed losing the game as the other option.

Come on. This is easy word scrambling.

He couldn’t have played “ginger?” Or just lost the game?

Strange, I read it as “faggot.”

Do you think that Scrabble is the arbiter of English, or that anyone here believes that removing words from a competitive context implies “delet[ing] words”?