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[–]IMissPorn 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

That's just what I've been thinking lately. Sex exists, obviously. But gender, if understood as anything beyond a synonym, is made up nonsense.

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

True, gender is essentially a synonym for sex, it's only when you look at our culture obliquely that there's any use for separating sex and gender. Gender being the cultural expression biological sex takes in a society. There's no practical merit to separating sex and gender, it's only an academic abstraction.

[–]jet199 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

They should have used a new word rather than twisting an already used one.

In countries which only have one word for biological sex (and gender is only a language term) they call this academic gender "sex roles" or "sex stereotypes".

[–]clownworlddropout 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I vote for sex stereotype, it's a more accurate term.