“Gender” is a deliberately vague neologism that should be avoided entirely. We did fine without it before 1955.pic.twitter.com/4OGfpDLXvA
Don't say 'gender' when you mean 'sex': leading sex research er, primatologist, & evolutionary biologist @DrRDMartin explains the difference:https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/how-we-do-it/201908/no-substitute-sex …
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Great graph Jeff
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Editing a paper on Wildcats, written in (v. good) English by Italians. Went through & changed ca. 25 uses of the word 'gender' to 'sex'. I wrote in the comments: "I've changed "gender" to "sex"; the former in its synonymous sense is irremediably lost to the English language."
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100% agree. Resist the social construct altogether. '08 I was sex-typing transgenic mouse embryos and teaching undergrads how to. The undergrads tried to change it to gender-typing. I explained that detecting mouse Y-chromosome is sex-typing. Science can be corrupted by nonsense.
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@DrRDMartin 's comment about the use of the term "sex" offending LGBT folk, it's the ignorant use which causes problems. My sex characteristics are, through direct action, somewhere in the zone between the two modes. My gender-as-social-role is much closer to F, but . . . -
of course like anyone else it shares characteristics of both, because the evolution of gender performance away from an exclusive binary allows me to [m] do physical labor while [f] functioning in most social ways as a woman.
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An excellent article on sex and gender.
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How much of the incorrect use is honest mistake, and how much deliberate choice by folks who want to sow confusion between the terms as part of the campaign to assert either sex differences are irrelevant, or if they exist, they don't matter?
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The original formation of gender vs sex was based in blank slate idea about human behavioral sex differences was it not? Given that we now there are heritable behavior differences how can we reliably distinguish cultural gender differences from biological sex differences?
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Outside of specialist social sciences discourses I think the use of the term gender is mostly causing confusion and we should return to sex as the default term.
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