tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7703878848921525344.post7984557717415580479..comments2023-06-20T07:39:42.436-06:00Comments on Anthropologist in the Attic: Transgendered males seen as an asset to some ancestral societiesC'est Moi - Selinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12069309232484921279noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7703878848921525344.post-12787480977999662522013-11-23T08:14:09.009-07:002013-11-23T08:14:09.009-07:00I appreciate your input. I didn't actually wri...I appreciate your input. I didn't actually write the article, merely reposted it.<br /><br />Verbing is a common linguistic practice. It is the etymological process of functional shifting.<br /><br />Academia approaches research areas differently. It wants to probe every corner of the phenomenon and analyze it in various contexts, i.e. social, medical, engineering, maths, etc. Your last statement is similar to that of the members of the d/Deaf community. Sometimes they are regarded as deaf and other times they are regarded as Deaf. One is medical and the other cultural.<br />C'est Moi - Selinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12069309232484921279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7703878848921525344.post-82980895524654561932013-11-23T08:12:55.562-07:002013-11-23T08:12:55.562-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.C'est Moi - Selinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12069309232484921279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7703878848921525344.post-46669112992525556472013-11-08T11:32:30.994-07:002013-11-08T11:32:30.994-07:00If you're going to present this as an anthropo...If you're going to present this as an anthropological study, then at least get the terminology right. You are, in fact, discussing transgender women (or trans women for short). There is no such word as 'transgendered' (transgender is a noun or adjective and doesn't exist in verb form) and the pronoun/gender used is the gender the person is living, not their birth gender. This is an example why so many trans people don't trust academic studies of their lives written by non-trans "experts.Ginahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11126067426459920339noreply@blogger.com