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[–]SerpensInferna 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Okay I'll bite.

What is gender?

What is male gender?

What is female gender?

Hit me with anything other than stereotypes and I'll give you a listen.

[–]ActuallyNot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Gender is being male or female. In the case of those that don't fit in either of those boxes, it's whatever they are.

Male gender is the gender that people who are male have. Female gender is the gender that people who are female have.

I'm failing to see what you're trying to get at with this line of questioning.

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

What is gender?

It is not being male or female. That is sex. Sex is being male or female.

What is gender? I'm failing to see an answer to an honest question. You like to redirect when you have no actual answer but feel you know you're correct?

Gender is sex stereotypes. The idea that women are nurturing and men are aggressive is taught and learned. Unless the brain scans of male and female newborns are scanned, show differences, and those differences stay on those scans through adulthood, we can say the differences are learned because of neuroplasticity. We know it's nurture. We know that. We have zero evidence of anything described as "gender."

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

I have issues with my biology but that's it. For the longest time I didn't even realize it was connected to sex until I noticed they're all sexually dimorphic characteristics.

I don't really know how to explain it though other than it just doesn't mesh with me. It's like not getting along with a person. The worst of it is actually in my cognitive functioning. It feels like my brain is a bunched of incompatible parts duct-taped together. But I also have a lot of other problems up there so I'm not sure how much of it is actually related to this.