Balance

Myriad Reality

Look, guys. She is an arrogant, smart, top of the social chain type character that believes the world owes her something, and she is setting her goal in life to find out what it is. She dislikes people that make her angry, or make fun of mahogany for no real reason. If you don't like that, try and kill her. Although, that probably won't go well.

(Im not mad, this is just me calmly stating this)

@souleaterfan320

Spectre will try her patience. =D He lives for triggering entitled self-centred jerks. (Assuming that's Sera because I haven't read what you've done yet lol)

Myriad Reality

off to church, ned

Myriad Reality

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...Sreig and Iris are going to be devastated.

@Extra

I know. It must be terrible for them. But we can't afford to lose anyone else. But they might be even more devastated if Serenity escaped, and then there was possibly no way to get her back and fix her.

Myriad Reality

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@Extra

Actually, I'm pretty sure it's a case of "she doesn't really remember". I'm fairly certain that Erza doing all that is not the case, but how it happened is something apparently neither of us can put our fingers on.

Myriad Reality

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Okay, so let me try to elaborate then to avoid that.
Sex: Based on chromosomes and reproductive cells, as David put.
Gender: The traits entwined with sex in a given society/culture.
Gender Identity: The only thing someone can actually affect: What gender someone wants applied to themself/does apply to themself and the traits with it.

So the confusion between gender and gender identity is an obviously common one and is a small part of the problem with SJWs. The one between sex and gender is since common usage they're interchanged, sort of like how "ironic" is used to mean something it doesn't actually mean.

I literally never thought of them being separate somehow meaning it is or isn't okay to have a different gender than sex. The problem with thinking that it's not okay, though, is that gender can't be controlled because it depends on the given society/culture. Boy to us and boy to ancient england or modern japan or any other society are different things, like how all thumbs are fingers but not all fingers are thumbs.

I'm not sure if that'll make sense to anyone but me but meh.

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The day a scientist who isn't a psychologist or sociologist using gender in a study I'll concede. It'll never happen because they're different things.
Also, I like (genuinely like, not as in the facetious way. It's funny to me in a good way.) how you used "definitions change" and "typically needs to be noted" on the same side of a point.
Also the "societal reflects biological" is HIGHLY debatable, though I think I'd mostly be on the same side as you in that debate.

@DarkwolfX37

I totally get what you're saying. It's probably not impossible for a culture to form (although it hasn't) that has, say, five or six genders but two sexes. But from David's and my Christian perspective, God created two genders and two sex which correspond, and so culture and society are technically irrelevant. That's why "gender and sex are different is a fact" seems like a loaded sentence, even though I know you don't mean it to be.

Myriad Reality

@Multifarious

we're not going to get in an argument omq

Myriad Reality

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Probably because I'm using definitions? Saying that human asexuality and biological asexuality are the same or that one doesn't exist at all, classification as a sexuality aside, IS wrong. As is saying that sex and gender are the same thing. :/
Where is the issue here exactly?

@DarkwolfX37

I think it's that in Christianity, biological sex and gender role are identical and inseparable, but the idea that sex and gender are separate sends the message that to be a different gender from your sex is okay.
EDIT: By gender role, just to clarify, I don't actually mean "you're this gender so you have to do this"; I mean "this is what you are, although it doesn't necessarily have any connotations as to how you're supposed to act." After all, under my convictions I'm fine with a male who holds traditionally feminine traits and mannerisms, or a female who holds traditionally masculine traits and mannerisms.

Myriad Reality

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Don't lie to me.

@Extra

-Ruby- I'm not lying to you.

Myriad Reality

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Nothing will feel right in this situation.

@Dynamics

-Ruby- You're right.

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Erza wouldn't hurt her like this...

@Extra

-Ruby- Then I'm not sure what's happened. That was her situation when Erza led her in.

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@Extra

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I'm just glad it hasn't happened to me or Sips yet.

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It's just one of those choices. Bad or more bad... Worse. That's the word, worse.

@Multifarious

The lesser evil.

Myriad Reality

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Oops.

Inwas just making sure.

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They're not themselves. They're bot actually the family member in there. I mean, Rythian left Ridge in a state that I can honestly say is pretty grim after he got out. I wouldn't let that happen to anyone else.

@Multifarious

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As little hostility as I have for Lunar, I don't think it would be safe.

@Dynamics

-Ruby- ... I just don't feel right about it. I already told him he could see her.
-Well, I didn't. *waves my hand and the stasis pod disappears* Sorry, Lunar, but they're right.