vegetariantaxidermy wrote:No, I'm not playing any 'dictionary game'. MAN has a specific meaning. You can't change that to suit some bullshit agenda. Do you do the same thing with 'woman'? Is that entirely subjective as well? Don't answer. This is only going round in circles. You must get into a terrible state when someone asks, 'was it a man or a woman'? How do you communicate at all if you consider language to be entirely subjective, with words only meaning what the person using them wants them to mean? How confusing. Sort of defeats the purpose of language entirely.
Actually, it is. Yin and yang, is a flow, male and female, light and darkness. To suggest the "man" has a single definition, related to chromosomes entirely, is incompatible with yin and yang, and ignores the common cultural associations of the word. Man is a heavy word, and implies more than just a couple of chromosomes. To ignore such associations would be, in essence, the spiritual equivalent of sticking one's head in the sand. We do not call young boys men.
In addition, your argument is self defeating. If I saw a transgender person walking around, and if asked "Is that a man or a woman" I wouldn't walk up to them and take a measurement of their DNA. I would simply say that they were whatever gender they were presenting as.
In the extra sense, your argument has no place in reality, either. In real life, in the rare hypothetical situation of someone asking me "Is that a man or woman" I would most likely scold them for being rude and small minded, and would of course fill their heads with higher priorities, such as the destruction of the universe. Such a person would probably be unawares of the need for eternal destruction, as such a person would foolishly cling to the udders of a life filled with tragedy and misery, over and over, blissfully unaware of the eternal reincarnation waiting in store.