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

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

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: 5, Informative) by butthurt on Friday May 05 2017, @03:00PM (6 children)

    by butthurt (6141) on Friday May 05 2017, @03:00PM (#504907) Journal

    Oxford University Press is apparently fully SJW-converged. Its first definition of "gender":

    1 Either of the two sexes (male and female), especially when considered with reference to social and cultural differences rather than biological ones. The term is also used more broadly to denote a range of identities that do not correspond to established ideas of male and female. [...]

    -- https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/gender [oxforddictionaries.com]

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  • (Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Friday May 05 2017, @03:08PM (5 children)

    2. Either of the two main categories (male and female) into which humans and most other living things are divided on the basis of their reproductive functions.
    ‘adults of both sexes’

    --https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/sex

    Multiple dictionaries say the same thing. Gosh, those SJWs are everywhere!

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    No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 05 2017, @09:07PM (4 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 05 2017, @09:07PM (#505156)

      There is a lot of irony in your embrace of the range of definitions of gender and your hardcore insistence on the narrow usage of the term "race."

      I'm sure you've got some rationalization why the same dictionary is correct for one word and incorrect for another.

      • (Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Friday May 05 2017, @09:42PM (3 children)

        There is a lot of irony in your embrace of the range of definitions of gender and your hardcore insistence on the narrow usage of the term "race."

        I'm sure you've got some rationalization why the same dictionary is correct for one word and incorrect for another.

        Yup. Because I said so. Life is wonderful, isn't it?

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        No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 06 2017, @01:31AM (2 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 06 2017, @01:31AM (#505259)

          Yup. Because I said so. Life is wonderful, isn't it?

          Looks like you and buzzard are in complete harmony.

          • (Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Saturday May 06 2017, @01:44AM (1 child)

            Yup. Because I said so. Life is wonderful, isn't it?

            Looks like you and buzzard are in complete harmony.

            If somone's going to whinge like a six year old, they're going to get the standard mommy response.

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            No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 06 2017, @02:09PM

              by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 06 2017, @02:09PM (#505421)

              If somone's going to whinge like a six year old, they're going to get the standard mommy response.

              Haha. When the might dummy does it, he's a 6-year old princess stamping his foot.
              When you do it you are a mommy.

              Your cognitive dissonance is showing.