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From the same article: >The modern academic sense of the word, in the context of social roles of men and women, dates from the work of John Money (1955), and w
by LesZedCB 13y ago
From the same article:
>The modern academic sense of the word, in the context of social roles of men and women, dates from the work of John Money (1955), and was popularized and developed by the feminist movement from the 1970s onwards (see Feminism theory and gender studies below). The theory was that human nature is essentially epicene and social distinctions based on sex are arbitrarily constructed. Matters pertaining to this theoretical process of social construction were labelled matters of gender.
I think most places people hear it is that gender is the male/female/other self-description, and sex is the physiological state.
- gnarbarian 13y agoMost transgender social justice warriors or gender studies majors maybe. Not most people in general. The vast majority of the people out there don't distinguish between gender and sex. Especially since only about 0.5% of the population identifies as a gender other than their physical sex.
- icebraining 13y agoThere's a lot of terminology that the vast majority of people understand poorly. By itself, that hardly seems a good reason for a (supposedly) scientific magazine, particularly when using 'sex' exclusively would understood by everyone.
- gnarbarian 13y agoIt probably comes down to the fact that the people practicing physical "hard" sciences do not particularly care about or trust the conclusions drawn by the "softer" sciences (sociology, gender studies, psychology)
- icebraining 13y agoMaybe so, but the person writing this article isn't a practitioner of hard sciences, she's a journalist.
- gnarbarian 13y agoA journalist for a magazine focused on presenting hard sciences to the masses.