About the origins of the word "gender"

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[–]SnowAssMan 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

TRAs have indeed been taking advantage of feminism's confusing contradiction whenever the claim "sex & gender are not the same", only to use "sex-roles" & "gender-roles" synonymously, thereby proving that sex & gender are synonyms.

Since the general public & most of academia still use gender as a synonym for sex, which is what it always was, maybe feminists could join in with that crowd, instead of sticking rigidly to the gender/sex division that caused the problem to begin with & whose continued support is only making it worse, even though they aren't even consistent with it (the roles example).

You refusal to use gender as a synonym for sex is counter-productive, as has been demonstrated for decades now. There is no evidence to suggest that treating sex & gender as synonyms would have any negative results.

[–]BiologyIsReal[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Do the natural sciences are not included in the academia? Because sex is still widely used in scientific literature, especially in compound words like sex determination, sex-linked inheritance, etcetera. Just pick any book on genetics, biology, anatomy, cell biology, phisiology, endocrinology, agronomy, embriology, zoology, botany, biochemistry, etcetera and you'll find out. Or look up "sex" in PubMed and you'll get very different results from your beloved Google. Or pick up any high scholl biology textbook and I promise you that sex hormones and sex chromosomes will be mentioned somewhere.

There are few people in the life sciences, like Coling Wright, who are speaking out about sex denialism, too. So, why are you singling out feminists as the only ones using sex?

[–]SnowAssMan 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

If gender is a synonym for sex then the reverse is also true. However, those are the exceptions. Generally, inside & outside academia gender is used more than sex to refer to the sexes. If you genuinely never noticed then you need to step outside the feminist/TRA bubble.

Even feminism & transgenderism uses gender as a synonym for sex. The synonyms sex-roles & gender-roles illustrate this, so does gender dysphoria being alleviated with the administration of cross-sex hormones.

Everywhere you look gender is referring to sex, even grammatical gender (in English) does this. I don't see what the point in denying this is.

[–]BiologyIsReal[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

So, even when I reference scientific literature, you ignore it as a mere "exception" and insist that I live in a "feminist/TRA bubble". You're the one who needs to get outside of your own bubble and pick some damn biology textbooks. You can start with the high school ones and see with your own eyes that women being 46, XX and men being 46, XY and that some inheritable traits are linked to sex is not advanced biology that is only thaugh at university level.