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The vast majority of human cultures across time and space don’t recognize gender in the sense you do. There’s sex, roles, personality, trends, etc but the conce
by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
The vast majority of human cultures across time and space don’t recognize gender in the sense you do. There’s sex, roles, personality, trends, etc but the concept of a man identifying as a woman and vice versa is a very rare one. There are European countries (most recently Switzerland) that outright reject these notions, and they were almost unheard of in the US just a mere decade ago.
What seems like basic reality to you is an American fad to most everyone else.
- moonchrome 4y agoI think you misunderstood me - OP wrote he doesn't have a concept of sex where he comes from. Since that's the biological term it sounded funny to me. I'm sure he meant to say gender.
- hulitu 4y agoIn the languages i speak gender is used in grammar, sex in biology.
- fluoridation 4y agoWhat ruszki wrote was "where I come from, this notion is basically non-existent". It's ambiguous whether "this notion" refers to sex, gender, or the distinction between the two, but since both sex and gender are human universals, you should have inferred that "this notion" referred to the distinction.
- moonchrome 4y agoHe literally wrote > Where I came from, this notion is basically non-existent. I meant sex.
- fluoridation 4y agoThose are two different and somewhat unrelated statements. First, "this notion" is unknown to them. Second, that they previously meant "sex". What does the second statement mean? Let's look at it in context: -I’ve never heard anybody who thought that there was no differences in women and men behaviours on average. -those differences you pointed out being connected to gender, are actually due to the sex of the individual, not due to the gender an individual chooses to identify with -Where I came from, this notion is basically non-existent. I meant sex. ruszki's comment expressed more verbosely would be: > This idea that sex and gender are distinguishable does not exist where I come from. Previously when I said "women and men" I was referring to the sexes, not to the genders. That is to say, to me "man" and "human male" are synonymous, as are "woman" and "human female". You had all the information necessary to interpret what was written charitable, but instead for some reason you decided to interpret it as if they were saying something nonsensical.