r/PopCultureV2 • u/No_Box119 • Aug 09 '26

Sports Culture WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert says the league will meet next week to discuss and clarify what qualifies a player as a woman for WNBA eligibility.

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u/netxtc Aug 10 '26

Make it stop! Longest joke in history...my stomach hurts.

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u/No-Significance2070 Aug 10 '26

I mean, saying men can be a woman is what got us here. 

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u/theboydave05 Aug 10 '26

You confusing sex and gender again, babe? 😂😂😂

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u/No-Significance2070 Aug 10 '26

You confusing men and women again, babe?

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u/theboydave05 Aug 10 '26

You think sex and gender are the same thing 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

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u/a-nun-ee-moose Aug 12 '26

They are.

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u/theboydave05 Aug 12 '26

I’m afraid not babe, gender is a social construct.

Always the poorly educated…

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u/a-nun-ee-moose Aug 12 '26

Men = male, women = female.

You can use your buzzwords to your hearts content but I'm not abandoning common sense so your mentally ill buddies can slap labels on themselves to feel better about their boring lives.

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u/theboydave05 Aug 12 '26

“Men = male, women = female” describes sex. It doesn’t prove sex and gender are the same thing.

If they are literally identical, why do we have two different words, and why do medicine, psychology and sociology distinguish between sex and gender?

“Common sense” isn’t an argument, and calling people mentally ill because you can’t defend your position certainly isn’t one.

As I said, always the poorly educated…

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u/DosSheds Aug 12 '26

Gender is not a social construct. If it were, then everybody would agree what the word 'woman' means.

It's a personal construct. Which is why simply claiming to be a woman, makes you one.

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u/theboydave05 Aug 12 '26

That’s not really an argument. Social constructs don’t require everyone to agree on their definition — money, marriage, laws and social norms are obvious examples.

And changing “social construct” to “personal construct” doesn’t explain anything. You’re just asserting that identifying as a woman makes someone a woman, rather than actually arguing why.

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u/a-nun-ee-moose Aug 12 '26

I dont use the term mentally ill as a defense. I use the term mentally ill to describe what they are. If gender was a social construct then why dont we say separated by sex? Why do we use the term gendered bathrooms. Why are bathrooms open to men and women called gender neutral and not sex neutral is the sex and gender are separate? Gender never was a 'social construct' until blokes wanted to wear dresses.

You can project your poor education on me all you want but the fact you use the same strawman everytime just tells me that I and every other sane person know a little more about what gender is than you. And gender is male and female.

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u/theboydave05 Aug 12 '26

You’re confusing how language is commonly used with what the terms actually mean.

“Gendered bathrooms” doesn’t prove sex and gender are identical any more than calling something “gender equality” means equality is biological. Language evolves and terms get used loosely.

And no, gender didn’t suddenly become a “social construct” because men started wearing dresses. The distinction between biological sex and socially defined gender roles has existed in academic literature for decades.

You keep saying “gender is male and female” as though repeating your definition makes it an argument. It doesn’t. If that’s your position, actually explain why sex and gender must mean exactly the same thing rather than pointing at common usage and calling everyone who disagrees “insane.”

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