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For most of my life, "gender" was simply the everyday synonym for "sex", for contexts where saying "sex" would feel inappropriate

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[–]BiHorror 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yes. Both sides have equally bastardized the definition of gender. Therefore they BOTH deserve to judged/held accountable. Especially when it is both of their ideologies that stem from the very same sexologist. It would be hypocritical to complain about one and not the other.

The term "gender" fell out of fashion in the past... That's needed to be kept because it was perfect, and acting like normal people, use the terms: sex sex roles, sex stereotypes, etc. to explain things instead of pulling this extra victim shit. It does not help that normal people of society are starting to equate LGB to John Money because the faults of GC and TRAs. Homophobes are using it as ammo.

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

Yeah, to be frank, I don't see why it is useful to have "gender" as a shorthand for "sex stereotypes" when you can just say sex stereotypes. I say sex/gender to indicate that I consider them to be the same word. And, that is how much of academic writing uses them, though not all (some goes by the GC definition).