Also the distinctions between sex & gender are not going to go away. We've always had them but talked about them differently.
No need to try to eradicate it either tho. It exists & is in common usage & always has been. Female & feminine., Male and masculine.
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"Gender" was once (v. briefly) useful as a way of referring to male/female without sounding like you were talking about fucking. No longer!
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Before that people were described as 'manly' or 'womanly' - the concept of descriptors for gender existed way before the word did.
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Sure, but there's also "avuncular" - and fatherly, motherly, fraternal, bovine, & countless other adjectival forms of biological kind terms
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Yes. And we can talk about the difference between the biological fact of being a mother & the presentation of motherliness.
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Sex and gender are the same except much more essential and of interest because we are a sexually reproducing species.
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History is full of stuff about how to man and woman properly. Who is very manly or unwomanly. This stuff is meaningful to us.
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