LOL. Me: Gender Studies is not including biology in its study of gender differences. OP: That's not true! Look at these feminists engaging with science! *Passes me examples of feminists denouncing biological gender differences & claiming the body is a cultural construct.*
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That's because the word ‘gender’ originally had a purely grammatical meaning in languages that classify their nouns as masculine, feminine or neuter.
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That's not why such observations exist. People have been telling men how to be manly and women how to be womanly forever.
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Yes, but feminine men are still men and masculine women are still women. Gender is adjectival. The poles are not man/woman - those are nouns. Gender is masculine<->feminine. Both sexes have both masculine and feminine traits, though their average distributions are different.
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Yes, I know. That's the point. We're not only going to talk about the nouns. We're still always going to talk about the adjectives. When we do the former, we are talking about the sex. When we do the latter, we are talking about gender. I don't see that ever going away.
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In my two native languages (Polish and Russian) there's no 'gender', only sex. Some men are more feminine, some women are more masculine. This is a matter of personality, not some mysterious 'gender'.
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It's not really that mysterious. But it's made more complicated by the fact that the word gender refers to 3 different things. Gender roles, gender expression, & gender identity are not coterminous, although some equivocate between the 3 because they don't draw clear distinctions
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The one most people are actually concerned with, the one most people don't understand, is gender identity. This is just as biological as chromosomal sex. It is not a social construct. It is innate. It is located in the brain, and it does not always correspond with chromosomal sex
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because its origin is not dependent on chromosomal sex. It is, however, biological, hardwired into the brain. And I mean brain, the physical organ, not some nebulous concept of mind. There have been a number of studies done in neurology and the like, hard sciences, which have
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I think you're both right. Neither masculinity nor maleness implies the other, so there is a difference, but masculinity arises significantly out of the emergent traits of maleness which is a biological category. Imp. to maintain the difference well as see the connection.
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And if you say “he’s a girly man” or “she’s a bit manly”, you have a concept of gender that will get you in trouble on Twitter!
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