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Which is really rude because some women, who were born as women, look more masculine than feminine and vice versa.
I know a couple of (biological) women who might give one a slap if they dared to address them as male, simply because they appear to be masculine. For any number of reasons.
Any woman who looks like a man will be used to being mistaken for a man because that is how things work in the real world. Nearly everybody address you accord to how you look. That’s not being rude, that’s called normal. How many people upon first meeting you ask if you are male or female? I will bet you nobody does that.
Any woman who looks like a man will be used to being mistaken for a man because that is how things work in the real world. Nearly everybody address you accord to how you look. That’s not being rude, that’s called normal. How many people upon first meeting you ask if you are male or female? I will bet you nobody does that.
You've just demonstrated that you judge people based on their gender.
Same thing in this context. You're making a judgment call when you're addressing a person.
That's called gender expression.
This is kinda vague. I mean, using this criteria you'd be referring to my mother-in-law as a man, which she definitely does not identify herself as.
Nobody gets used to deliberate insults from self assured wankers. Most people aren't as rude as you, and they don't resort to a line often heard from bigots. (like referring to black men as boy and everyone just being used to it doing it that way)
Running your mouth like every other tough guy talker I've known and doing it on the internet? I doubt it.
I got asked all the time growing up, since I was and still am a tomboy.
And what observations do you base that assumption on?
No, I address (not judge) people based on my definition of gender which is the same as biology.
No; words have meaning. To say I judge people based on their gender gives the wrong impression of what I am doing. I am not going to let you get away with giving this false impression, I will continue to correct you when you make this mistake.
What about the lesbian woman who wears men’s clothes, and a male haircut? Which gender is she expressing?
Deliberate insults? Did you read what I actually said? Or are you making stuff up about me because that is easier than addressing my actual words.
Actually, he has a point there. No one has the right to assault someone over words. That certainly wouldn't hold up in any court. If he did get assaulted over it, he has the right to defend himself.
How does separating gender from biology prevent strangers from addressing people who look like men, as men?
It’s like that where I live as well. There has been occasions when I’ve gone to public mens room, and the person in there looks like a lesbian wearing mens clothes and a man’s haircut. I ask if this is the mens room, and he assured me he was a man. I assumed he was and did my business. Now if this guy attacked me for originally mistaking him for a woman, it’s on!
Appearance
Can you be more specific? What about appearance causes you to assume someone has an XX or an XY?
That's true, but it happens. And I own up to being a bitter, misanthropic schadenfreude and that definitely being something I tend to find funny.
In the real world, 99% of the people who look like men are biological men; 99% of the people who look like women are biological women.
So it doesn't really change anything.