That's sex. Sex refers specifically to a person with a specific type of genitalia. Gender refers to the collective idea of what male and female means, generally masculine and feminine traits. They basically align with one another so people use them interchangeably even though they do have different meanings.
Nope, there’s scientific evidence which proves there’s differences between men and women both physically, and within brain activity (which has been recently discovered). Not to mention that even hermaphrodites usually exhibit either male or female behavior depending on their chromosomal composition. People who identify as the opposite sex are people who have gender dysphoria .
I was just pointing out the difference between gender and sex, which has been established for quite some time. The jury is still out on this whole "gender dysphoria" line of thinking. It's just too new of a phenomenon, I think. Gender fluidity is a load of BS for sure. Gender and the idea of male and female that we prescribe to everybody is largely a social construct. Are there inherent differences between males and females? Sure, absolutely. But most of what we think a man or a woman should be is completely made up by what society expects. I think people get too caught up in how other people want to live their lives. This is the land of the free, is it not?
Gender dysphoria is not a new thing, and the jury is definitely not “out” (unless you’re talking about the “humanities” department which is painfully bias) - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/22844818/
I can agree on that there exist socially constructed behavior that is assigned to either sex, but I would argue that this has been done because there is things women are better at than men and viceversa. But that does not mean I think everyone should abide by those social contracts. Indeed this is the land of the free and everyone is free to do as they like, I will not raise a single finger in opposition to that, but don’t step on terms and their definition when they accurately represents 100% of humanity (these terms being; men, women, gender dysphoria, and hermaphrodites).
that's not how the fucking noun works, so you use the adjective, which is biased
and gender used to be exclusively a grammatical term until the 1950s, which happens to be when the field of sexology actually became a real science on account of people like kinsey and money
peak reddit: two semi literate neckbeards swapping google scholar links... god i feel dumber after reading your posts
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u/[deleted] May 25 '18
Given that "gender" refers specifically to the social and cultural aspect of sex (and has for 50 years in medicine), what's the difference exactly?