The term hermaphrodite is a descriptive word for someone who has elements of both genders, it does not have negative connotations, unless you want it to.

Someone uses a word to describe a certain group of people, said group gets offended for no aparrent reason, suddenly the word becomes an insult word and we're not allowed to use it anymore.

How long before we're not allowed to use words to describe anything contraversial, will we see the death of language for fear it might offend someone? Laughable.

The problem Psycoman mentions is not limited to Africa, a typical dodgy government's respone to any problem is to divert their people's attention away from their own failings by placing the blame on a certain other group of people (normally its the jews), to save their own skin. Its human nature that people wont want to own up when they screw up, so they place the blame on another person.

The British Goverment tried to place the blame for the recession squarely on the bankers, but we soon found out they had been stealing taxpayer's money for their own gain and were no more holy.

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To the point, Reading what some of you fascists have written here, I am left wondering why I ever attempted doing stuff for the community in the first place.

You know as well as anyone the level of intelligence of a group is often inversely proportional to its size. The thread title makes it worse. I also don't think the term intersexed is sufficiently (or at all) prominent in the minds of the public.

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I also don't think the term intersexed is sufficiently (or at all) prominent in the minds of the public.

Whatever the politically correct term in English might be I cannot see what is so bad about the word "hermaphrodite", although as a Greek I just might be a tad biased - I don't know about there but around here at least it's not a derogatory term. If anything it's a word that assigns very fine attributes, etymologically speaking. "Intersexed" just sounds bland and quite lacking and it's even worse than "androgyne" in terms of accuracy.

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The number of Daily Mail readers active in this thread proccludes any benefit that might occur from attempting a reasoned discussion around them.

To the point, Reading what some of you fascists have written here, I am left wondering why I ever attempted doing stuff for the community in the first place.

I give up on reasoned argument. Now we've wheeled the English language back over 10 years and dusted off hermaphrodite just for added old guard untollerance value, Africa is now a country and they're all the same, and apparently anything the SA Sports Minister says will be taken literally, which is something of a problem given how metaphorically intelligent people use English.

I give up.

so you think it OK to call us lot fascists (an offensive term), and then complain that hermaphrodite is an offensive term when it quite clearly isn't? Hermaphrodite has never and will never be seen as a term of abuse.

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The number of Daily Mail readers active in this thread proccludes any benefit that might occur from attempting a reasoned discussion around them.

To the point, Reading what some of you fascists have written here, I am left wondering why I ever attempted doing stuff for the community in the first place.

I give up on reasoned argument. Now we've wheeled the English language back over 10 years and dusted off hermaphrodite just for added old guard untollerance value, Africa is now a country and they're all the same, and apparently anything the SA Sports Minister says will be taken literally, which is something of a problem given how metaphorically intelligent people use English.

I give up.

Go listen to some linkin park.

No one understands you

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Whatever the politically correct term in English might be I cannot see what is so bad about the word "hermaphrodite", although as a Greek I just might be a tad biased - I don't know about there but around here at least it's not a derogatory term. If anything it's a word that assigns very fine attributes, etymologically speaking. "Intersexed" just sounds bland and quite lacking and it's even worse than "androgyne" in terms of accuracy.

Gotta agree here.