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posted by Fnord666 on Friday May 05 2017, @09:53AM   Printer-friendly
from the language-evolves-too dept.

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When uploaded to Netflix, an episode of the educational children's show "Bill Nye the Science Guy" cut out a segment saying that chromosomes determine one's gender.

[...] While noncontroversial at the time, the 1996 segment appears to contradict Netflix's new series "Bill Nye Saves the World."

The new show endorses a socially liberal understanding of gender, under which gender is defined by self-identification rather than genetics and there are more than just the two traditional genders.

People, people, people... Say it with me: The Internet Never Forgets.

Source: http://freebeacon.com/culture/netflix-edits-bill-nye-episode-remove-segment-chromosomes-determine-gender/


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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by butthurt on Friday May 05 2017, @02:53PM (2 children)

    by butthurt (6141) on Friday May 05 2017, @02:53PM (#504896) Journal

    The ultra-liberal dictionary.com makes a subtle distinction, defining "gender" as

    1. either the male or female division of a species, especially as differentiated by social and cultural roles and behavior:
    the feminine gender.
    Compare sex (def 1).

    -- http://www.dictionary.com/browse/gender [dictionary.com]

    and "sex" as

    1. either the male or female division of a species, especially as differentiated with reference to the reproductive functions.

    -- http://www.dictionary.com/browse/sex [dictionary.com]

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  • (Score: 1, Flamebait) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday May 05 2017, @03:02PM (1 child)

    Being as they also include an entirely open definition later down the page, I'm disinclined to allow them as an unbiased source.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 05 2017, @10:02PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 05 2017, @10:02PM (#505184)

      Even dictionaries are fake news now huh slugger.