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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Or is it only "typical presentation of a sex", in which case there are more "genderless" people than we thought?
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Replying to @HenryTarquin @HPluckrose
As you're describing the term, it sounds potentially useful - but not so much as a word to apply to human beings
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Replying to @HenryTarquin
All I can suggest is joining in the conversation if what people are saying makes sense to you (& most of the time it will) & not, if not.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @HenryTarquin
Oppose attempts to be authoritarian abt what ppl can think of gender & ignore people being pretentious and attention-seeking. My intention.
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Coz it doesn't matter how much you point out concept is unstable and the ways its often used unhelpful, ppl are still gonna think abt gender
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Replying to @HPluckrose @HenryTarquin
We don't often have to think about genitalia, chromosomes, hormone and brain differences. We often think abt what it all looks like & means.
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To be a woman, to be a man living in a society, to be masculine or feminine, to be attracted to masculinity or femininity.
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