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    [–]LesbiSilly 30 insightful - 1 fun30 insightful - 0 fun31 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    Yeah, if we turn every masculine/ not womanly lady into a 'man' then... Welcome back to the 1950s!

    [–]Porphyria 16 insightful - 1 fun16 insightful - 0 fun17 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Or the 1850s, when women who did anything the slightest bit masculine were "unnatural creatures" who had "unsexed themselves" , and one thing that's interesting to me is that the Victorians, for all (mostly exaggerated) nonsense about how mealy-mouthed they were, had no problems with the word sex, eg, Lucretia Mott telling women to stand up for "the dignity of their sex" . It was the 20th century that started using "[have] sex'" for "copulate", and that made it a Dirty Word, so people started using gender to replace sex-and here we are. I distinctly remember my own mother getting angry back in the 1970s, when people used "gender" to mean "sex" : "That's a grammar term!" I didn't understand why she got so upset then ; now I do.