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Sex is the biology; Gender is the identity. Discrimations are based on gender, not sex. Women are told to wear pink dresses because of how our society see women
by hk__2 11y ago
Sex is the biology; Gender is the identity. Discrimations are based on gender, not sex. Women are told to wear pink dresses because of how our society see women (female gender), not because they have a vagina (female sex).
- taneq 11y ago> Women are told to wear pink dresses because of how our society see women (female gender), not because they have a vagina (female sex). Really? I'm pretty sure a large part of any discrimination against women is due to their physical sex, not the way they identify.
- littletimmy 11y agoWhy does one need a gender identity?
- mc32 11y agoWe only need it because we live in groups. If we were all by ourselves we would not need this language (and much other language). Much of language is for signaling.
- fennecfoxen 11y agoRegardless, these factors are in a 1-to-1 relationship for around 99% of schoolchildren in the third grade "aged 9 years old on average" including, presumably, every single child studied in this study. Discussion of the specific differences, or of the other cases, might have substantial merit... but seem less than productive on this particular occasion as the topic is at best only tangentially related.
- hk__2 11y agoSure; I was only explaining the difference to OP who seems to think gender and sex are two words for the same thing.
- lr4444lr 11y ago> Sex is the biology; Gender is the identity That's only a very recent distinction, and still a contentious one. According to Merriam-Webster (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gender http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gender) and the OED (http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/english/gender http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/english/gend...), it's far from clear.
- zajd 11y agoBased on what the dictionary says? The idea that gender and sex mean two different things isn't contentious amongst the people who study the phenomenon academically.
- littletimmy 11y agoWell, gender studies is not very scientific. It is more "theorizing", in the sense of writing obscurantist explanations for everyday phenomenon.
- zajd 11y agoDo you feel the same way about all social sciences? Does "materialism" only mean valuing material things to you or do you respect the Philosophical definition? Honestly it's a lot of handwaving to excuse ignorance (what not knowing the difference between the two terms is)
- SolaceQuantum 11y agoThe difference in gender and sex also comes up in biology and neuroscience...
- wyager 11y agoEvery generation of soft social "scientists" (I use scare quotes because they don't usually use the scientific method. When I say "soft" social scientists I mean e.g. Gender studies people as opposed to demographers.) tends to disagree with the previous generation on huge fundamental tenets for mostly arbitrary reasons. It is wise to take any dictionary-defying claims from these fields with a large grain of salt, because there's a substantial chance that such a claim is made for social or political (but not scientific) reasons.
- devishard 11y ago> Sex is the biology; Gender is the identity. What evidence do you have that identity doesn't originate in biology? I'm well-aware of the existence of transpeople, but I'm not ready to conclude that gender dysphoria doesn't originate in biology. There's more to a person's biology than their genitalia.