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 @HPluckrose
In short I think "gender" was more useful in grammar, and more useful disambiguating "sex", than it is in its current incarnation
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Replying to @HenryTarquin
But ppl will still want to talk about things other than biological bodies. They'll want to talk abt what we call 'gender'
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Replying to @HPluckrose
And what IS the thing we call "gender"? I find I have no idea; and to the extent I do, nobody else has the same idea
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Replying to @HenryTarquin
I think that's probably OK. If I say 'I feel more feminine in a dress; it doesn't matter if you have no idea what I mean by feminine.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @HenryTarquin
I suspect you do tho. And this is the point. Gender itself is not the problem. Politicising it & making truth claims about it is.
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You've been exceptionally clear about what YOU mean by "gender" - & even so I don't quite follow you. God help us all following each other
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Replying to @HenryTarquin
It only becomes important when its politicised. Otherwise, we can just have descriptive conversations. How wld I say this w/out gender? 1/2
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So does "gender" mean "*typical* presentation of a biological trait"? (Are there 160 of them after all, including "mammally" and "teenage"?)
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It what you present. Its the stuff around biological sex which is not biological sex.It is nebulous but doesn't matter unless ppl make rules
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