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Gender/Sex
Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 9:43 am
by peacock2121
This is what the WHO says:
"Sex” refers to the biological and physiological characteristics that define men and women.
“Gender” refers to the socially constructed roles, behaviors, activities, and attributes that a given society considers appropriate for men and women.
http://www.who.int/gender/whatisgender/en/index.html
Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 10:00 am
by gsabc
Okay, then I've learned something today. Time to go home.
It still brought to mind the old joke: "I've got three kids. One of each."
Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 10:09 am
by Beebs52
Pea, I mentioned this in a reply on the other thread to Skoop---great book about this subject (really about a hermaphrodite and history and all sorts of good stuff)---Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides. I just finished it. Won the Pulitzer. It is a fabu book. Great reading.
Don't seem to be able to post more than fragments today.
Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 10:10 am
by peacock2121
Society can change gender.
Can surgery change sex?
Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 10:23 am
by Beebs52
Not unless you can change the chromosomes around, I would think. You can change the physical characteristics, and I suppose with all the cloning capabilities around someone is messing with the XX's and XY's already.
Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 12:09 pm
by TheCalvinator24
In proper usage, sex refers to a binary choice of male or female.
Gender refers to the spectrum with masculine on one end and feminine on the other.
I said it is a pointless battle because "Gender" has been used as a replacement for "Sex" for so long that people think I'm the weird one for using them in the historically accurate way.
Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 12:13 pm
by peacock2121
LOL - that is the only reason they think you are weird?
If I thought about how many people think I am weird for so many different reasons, I'd have no room in my brain for anything else.
Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 12:15 pm
by TheCalvinator24
peacock2121 wrote:LOL - that is the only reason they think you are weird?
If I thought about how many people think I am weird for so many different reasons, I'd have no room in my brain for anything else.
One of my co-workers thinks it's weird that I am a straight man who loves Broadway show tunes.
Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 12:21 pm
by gsabc
TheCalvinator24 wrote:One of my co-workers thinks it's weird that I am a straight man who loves Broadway show tunes.
If that's so weird, then how can Broadway musicals make a profit? There can't be THAT many gay men with money living in the NYC area. Or can there?
Call me weird, too, then. A sizable percentage of our CD collection is Broadway original cast soundtracks. And everyone knows you can't succeed on Broadway if you haven't any Jews.
