I have never seen anyone explain what a ‘gender’ is. Everyone ducks out.
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Replying to @lecanardnoir
Lots of people do with the extremes being radfems who say its a cultural construct to oppress women & we're identical psychologically really and essentialists saying its exactly the same as sex meaning that there are men's roles and women's roles.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @lecanardnoir
But it is a quite annoying and ambiguous term generally meant to describe the psychological, cognitive & behavioural bits as well as social stuff. Anything that isnt organs, essentially. Its not going anywhere tho. We've always recognised more than organs make us different.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @lecanardnoir
Men and women differ psychologically *ON AVERAGE*. Both sexes have a huge variety of personalities, preferences and modes of expression. It is *only* female biology that links all females together and it is *only* male biology that links all males together.
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Replying to @miszminska @HPluckrose
Absolutely this. And as soon as you (for some reason) abandon this, the very concepts of sex, male, female etc become incoherent and impossible to objectively define. Why some take is path into erasure of sex and sexuality is boggling and I struggle to understand.
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It doesn’t mean that being transgender isn’t a valid thing, of course some people are trans and identity as the opposite sex they were born. But there has to be a solid definition of sex for there to be any coherence and peace!
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Replying to @DrinkingGinNow @miszminska
There does but we might not know right now exactly how it works. One day we'll probably have it all mapped out re gonads and chromosomes and brains and hormones which are all sexed & be able to plot individuals on them.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @miszminska
Sex is indisputable. It’s already mapped out.
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Replying to @DrinkingGinNow @miszminska
We're there already, are we? Understanding everything there is to know about biological differences between the sexes? Neuroscience suggests otherwise.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @miszminska
That’s more to do with psychology - behaviour and personality though. You can’t truly change sex.
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That comes from brains. I don't suggest you can truly change your biology but that some people's do not uniformly match the sex of their genitals.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @DrinkingGinNow
Not the sex of their genitals, but their sex. Genitals don't have sex, humans do. Jesus f**** Christ.
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