i don't understand - is there another coherent definition of "gender" that *doesn't* define it as culturally-constructed?
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gender itself is the cultural significance of and roles imposed on men and women, yeah? what isn't socially-defined about that?
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Replying to @Throwaway_Gay @GabeBlessing
That will be what you mean by it, then. More commonly I hear gender roles and psychological & cognitive stuff defined as gender.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @GabeBlessing
hm. i imagine that these discussions about gender would be much less frustrating for everyone if we all agreed on what "gender" even means.
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Yes, well I work in linguistics. It basically means "masculine and feminine".
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Replying to @Gabcsika_Me @Throwaway_Gay and
Feminists started to use it to mean "masculine and feminine socialisation of the sexes" sociologists used it to mean..
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Replying to @Gabcsika_Me @Throwaway_Gay and
.. cultural artifacts associated by society with men and women. And then, laypeople started to use it instead of sex (due to prudery)
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Replying to @Gabcsika_Me @Throwaway_Gay and
So somewhere along the line the term got conflated with sex and that's where the confusion comes from.
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Replying to @Gabcsika_Me @Throwaway_Gay and
"gender identity" is a relatively new term and seems to have no fixed meaning.
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Genuinely dysphoric males are unlikely to parade themselves on Twitter like, say,
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I can't keep up, btw. Too many tweets. Gonna mute convo soon.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @GabeBlessing and
same. thanks for the open discussion.
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