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[–]mangosplums 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

What I’m saying is that the reason they use the wrong definition of gender is because gender originally was just a synonym for sex until Judith Butler chose to change the meaning. Outside of academic and feminist circles, the word gender is still used as a synonym for sex regularly. You can’t attempt to change the meaning of a word that already has a meaning without expecting confusion, and people continuing to understand the word by its original definition.

[–]Q-Continuum-kin 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

because gender originally was just a synonym for sex until Judith Butler chose to change the meaning.

Literally just look it up.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender

The term gender had been associated with grammar for most of history and only started to move towards it being a malleable cultural construct in the 1950s and 1960s.[15]

Sexologist John Money introduced the terminological distinction between biological sex and gender as a role in 1955. Before his work, it was uncommon to use the word gender to refer to anything but grammatical categories.[1][2] For example, in a bibliography of 12,000 references on marriage and family from 1900–1964, the term gender does not even emerge once.