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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Replying to @HPluckrose
"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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Replying to @HenryTarquin
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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Replying to @HPluckrose
Sure, but there's also "avuncular" - and fatherly, motherly, fraternal, bovine, & countless other adjectival forms of biological kind terms
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Replying to @HenryTarquin
Yes. And we can talk about the difference between the biological fact of being a mother & the presentation of motherliness.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
We can, and I think we can do so better without a separate word for the latter kind of thing.
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Replying to @HenryTarquin
If you got rid of the word 'motherly', the reality wouldn't change. You'd just need more words to describe what you mean.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
I don't want to get rid of "motherly" (or any of those other adjectives). I want to get rid of "gender" (as currently used)
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Replying to @HenryTarquin
You'd still just need more words to describe what you mean. Concepts of femininity & masculinity will still exist & be important.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
"Gender" essentially means "kind". There are two sexes; well and good. But there are infinitely many kinds - and worse, many kinds of kinds
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You don't have to talk about gender if you don't want to.
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