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[–]JulienMayfair 20 insightful - 1 fun20 insightful - 0 fun21 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

I think the right way to phrase it is that there are two sexes. Genders are socially constructed categories with a basis in biological sex, and some cultures (not many) have had more than two genders. Those cultures were not gender utopias like their romantic fans would like to think, but they did exist. Third genders were often a place to put men who did not conform to rigid male sex roles in cultures with a high priority on categorization.

[–]Q-Continuum-kin 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah and most of the reason that the third gender exists in a place like India is their extremely rigid caste system which extends to gender castes. It's men who aren't masculine enough and there's no considerations of women not feminine enough.

[–]RedEyedWarriorGay | Male | 🇮🇪 Irish 🇮🇪 | Antineoliberal | Cocks are Compulsory[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Gender is bullshit anyway. I can understand replacing the word sex with the word gender on the basis that sex is used to describe a private behaviour. But nowadays, gender and sex mean two different things.

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

it used to be interchangeable, but all of a sudden the meaning "gender" changed completely?? I still don't understand how this happened :/

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

TRAs and feminism got into the colleges. That's when I honestly started seeing the "there's a difference!" (Ex: women and gender, sexuality studies) Pop up alongside the internet.

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

Yesh. Used to be for grammar but also used for sex differences in the past. "Gender" (for sex) went out of fashion, then got repopularized to mean whatever the hell it means for some groups minus the majority who are still thankfully (at least) using it to mean sex.

[–]BiHorror 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah... No, I'm gonna have to disagree with you, mate. I'm not into using John Money terms.