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There are languages like German or Estonians where gender and sex have the same meaning, or rather term gender and the idea of it simply don't exist.
by Dma54rhs 5y ago
There are languages like German or Estonians where gender and sex have the same meaning, or rather term gender and the idea of it simply don't exist.
- Kye 5y agoThat's interesting considering Germany had (more or less) one of the first queer centers in roughly the form we think of them now. I wonder what could have led to that and a diversifying concept of gender being wiped out of the language and culture... I kid. Of course it was the purges leading up to WW2. I think they would have eventually developed as robust a concept of gender as we have today. It wasn't that long ago that we only had a concept in English of two binary sexes with gender being bound to secondary sexual characteristics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut_f%C3%BCr_Sexualwissenschaft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut_f%C3%BCr_Sexualwissen...