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originally posted by: Gryphon66
a reply to: beezzer
Right, we have to take everything to the ultimate extreme every time because ... because!
Just more BS.
(BS = bunny stuff)
originally posted by: intrepid
So we have these labels LBGT'___'LOLETC but "boy" and "girl" isn't acceptable? That's outrageous.
Nor have boys always even been called boys. Until the late 15th century the word ‘girl’ simply means a child of either sex. Boys, where they had to be differentiated, were referred to as ‘knave girls’ and girls in the female sense were called ‘gay girls’. Equally a boy could be a ‘knave child’ and a girl a ‘maiden child’.
The term ‘boy’ was reserved for servants or ‘churls’, the meaning ‘young man’ probably deriving from the latter as a pejorative term but not occurring before 1440.
During the 1970’s, 1 in 90 males in the Dominican Republic had this condition known as 5-Alpha-Reductase Deficiency. Unbeknownst to parents, some daughters were in fact males. They appeared to be female with a vagina and the tenderness of a little girl. Raised as young girls, they became males once puberty hit; their testicles descended, phallus grew, voice deepened, muscle and bone mass increased, and so forth.
It was later discovered that children with this disorder typically have under-developed testes and penis hidden in the body cavity. Since the default human form is that of the female body, their male genitals had not developed thoroughly during the fetal stages.
originally posted by: seagull
a reply to: Gryphon66
As I said above, only too well do I remember.
Times I would have given anything to just be like all the others. Still happens upon occasion...but one plays the cards life deals you.
originally posted by: BuzzyWigs
a reply to: Shamrock6
Addressing a classroom as "boys and girls" is on equal footing with fat-shaming somebody?
How about just "children"? "Children, it's time to get in line."
originally posted by: pfishy
a reply to: NightSkyeB4Dawn
How are we in freefall?
originally posted by: BuzzyWigs
a reply to: Shamrock6
Apparently you are not at all aware of the issues being discussed.