Asking about gender issues, point blank.

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[–]OrionBlastar 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

So you are saying that gender is not a social construct?

[–]jet199 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

You are using the word gender in 2 ways to confuse the issue, to mean both biological sex and social sex roles.

You could say social sex roles are a social construct but biological sex is real and observable by every person (and animal).

Biological sex in humans or any mammal can not be changed.

The fact you have to look at frogs for an example shows how far off the possibility of sex change is in humans.

[–]Trajan 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I wouldn't even concede that point concerning sex roles. Roles are so consistent across cultures, polarisation only increasing as equality increases, it seems reasonable to claim that biology is by far the biggest factor.

Where we go see shifts towards homogenisation of sex roles tends to be as a result of technology (e.g. birth control, weapons, mechanisation).

[–]jet199 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

By roles I would mean things like wearing dresses or trousers not instinctive behaviour like fighting or caring.

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

Ah, fully agree there. Thanks.

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

Gender and sex are synonymous and immutable. Gender roles are a social construct.