User blog comment:Madkatmaximus/pronouns/@comment-4964341-20150107034521/@comment-25625534-20150107052228

ihave that's completely ridiculous. the definitions of words shift all the time; it's how society works. there's nothing odd about it. the word "gender" has become distinct from "sex" and there's nothing incorrect or wrong about that. why do you assume that the "original" definition - which, if we're going by the origin, is far more closely tied to the words "genre" and "genus", which is also evolved into, than "gender":

"late Middle English: from Old French gendre (modern genre), based on Latin genus ‘birth, family, nation’. The earliest meanings were ‘kind, sort, genus’ and ‘type or class of noun, etc.’ (which was also a sense of Latin genus)."

the claim that it was "originally" "designed" with "morality" in mind is baseless and ridiculous. what's immoral about gender-neutrality? doesn't go against the bible, as mad pointed out... nothing particularly taboo about it. so what's the issue?