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[–]Spikygrasspod 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You could test what society considers appropriate for men and women. You could sit them down and do a survey. And indeed, people have done this. We do in fact have different expectations about when men and women should be like. That's gender in the sense of norms and social positions. Actually most GC feminists will tell you these are very real and shape our lives in negative ways, serving to naturalise and justify sex based oppression. The other way gender is used is 'gender identity'; an innate sense of being a woman or man, which is either circular or empty.