“Sex” vs. “gender”: Stix vs. Sailer

Steve Sailer: “Sex”

“The English language has a problem (and thus, due to the dominance of English, much of the world has a problem) with the word “sex” meaning both the basic biological division of humanity and sexual acts.

“I can recall about two decades ago that the late Larry Auster criticized me for summarizing my blog as being, among much else, interested in “race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation etc etc,” when I should have said “race, ethnicity, sex, sexual orientation etc etc.”

“Larry had a good point. But I chose the word ‘gender’ rather than ‘sex’ so that google would categorize me as an intellectual rather than as a porn purveyor.

“My guess is that the efflorescence of pornography over the last half century has rendered the old word ‘sex’ radioactive by giving it a hubba hubba sense. I’d imagine that when, say, Henry James 130 years ago offered some urbane reflection on a countess’s sensibility as reflecting that of ‘her sex,’ only the horniest denizens of 1893 would respond by instantly calling up pornographic imagery.

“But these days, due to the pervasiveness of video pornography, a lot of people can’t stop thinking about ‘sex’ as meaning sex acts. So, the kind of people who took four years of French have substituted ‘gender’ as a polite euphemism for ‘sex,’ with catastrophic results for trusting adolescents.

“My suggestion is that we English speakers should come up with different words for ‘male vs. female’ and ‘sexual acts.’

“Unfortunately, I’m neither creative nor cool, so whatever I come up with would be disastrous. But I implore those of you who are creative and cool to work on this problem.”


By Nicholas Stix

The English language has no such problem, Steve. English-language countries have a political problem.

Some time in the 19th century, communism arose. feminism also arose during that century. The most famous feminist tract of early feminism was probably herland (1915), a novel by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935), in which females gave birth through parthenogenesis.

In 1963, after the communist party usa refused her entry, a well-to-do Stalinist named Betty Freedman (1921-2006; she and her husband changed their name to “Friedan”) re-modeled feminism, as an imitation communist party (like the so-called civil rights movement).

If memory serves, the feminazis started “gender” talk.

The militant homosexualist movement began in 1970, with the stonewall riot, in which grown homosexuals fought for the right to have adult-to-adult and adult-to-child homosexual sex in public places, and for children to be served alcohol in homosexual saloons.

Although sexual butchery had begun in America with George Jorgensen in 1952, the sexual psychopath liberation movement didn’t take off until generations later.

sexual psychopaths adopted communist sophistry (via feminazism and militant homosexualism), and demanded, among other things, that people speak of “gender,” rather than “sex.”

Several years ago, our host said, in reference to feminists, that he’d given up fighting the matter, and had adopted “gender” over “sex.” This story about google and pornography is a new one.

Coming up with clever euphemisms won’t help. The sexual psychos/feminazis, etc., will ignore you or destroy you. They see weakness as weakness, and respond, accordingly.