Reminds me of a time when a survey asked me to pick a gender and I joked afterward that I wrote "Democrat" because that was clearly what they most wanted to hear.
Reading this I’m struck by how one, the definition of “gender” and “sex”, particularly the former, are poorly understood. For certain activists the lack of any definitive definition of gender is entirely the point as they intellectually samba their way into post-modernism. Without any clarity though the word is simply a stand-in for identity declarations, where poking fun at it and declaring some allegiance to a form of it is a signal of party/group loyalty. As another comment noted, they put down “Democrat” as that was clearly what the the survey wanted to know. Without clarity there is no shareable truth across differences in perspective and I have this image in my head of a future where meaning changes as one travels between states. The ascendency of the subjective is truly wild.
This is so interesting! What a nightmare for analyzing data too.
This is amazing.
Reminds me of a time when a survey asked me to pick a gender and I joked afterward that I wrote "Democrat" because that was clearly what they most wanted to hear.
Reading this I’m struck by how one, the definition of “gender” and “sex”, particularly the former, are poorly understood. For certain activists the lack of any definitive definition of gender is entirely the point as they intellectually samba their way into post-modernism. Without any clarity though the word is simply a stand-in for identity declarations, where poking fun at it and declaring some allegiance to a form of it is a signal of party/group loyalty. As another comment noted, they put down “Democrat” as that was clearly what the the survey wanted to know. Without clarity there is no shareable truth across differences in perspective and I have this image in my head of a future where meaning changes as one travels between states. The ascendency of the subjective is truly wild.
Oh wow -- I didn't think I was alone in answering that question that way, but it's great to see it show up so robustly in the data!