And that’s what sex means in the context of sex vs gender. Are you new to the concept that words have different meanings in different contexts? This isn’t about evolutionary biology.
This is an “either I’m stupid or everybody else” moment and I let you decide on your own.
Words don’t have inherent meaning but get meaning by the people who use it in the context they do. It’s an collective and context sensitive process. I remember how in one linguistics lecture (typology), we differentiated prepositions from postpositions whereas the syntax prof was like “I don’t care if the preposition is before or after”.
Also: Judith Butler discusses your gamete definition as utterly irrelevant in this context in Who’s Afraid Of Gender so it’s not that they aren’t aware. That’s all the hint I give you.
Judith Butler is one of those people that, when you find yourself agreeing with her, you should sit back and really consider how you arrived at that conclusion. She’s not always wrong, but she’s very wrong on a lot of stuff, including the gamete definition. Here’s one example:
lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
And that’s what sex means in the context of sex vs gender. Are you new to the concept that words have different meanings in different contexts? This isn’t about evolutionary biology.
powerstruggle@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Well, no. People just misunderstand what sex means in that context. You can’t disentangle sex vs gender from evolutionary biology.
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Gender is a social construct. There, I disentangled it from evolutionary biology.
powerstruggle@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Sure, but nobody’s arguing that. Sex is very much real and very much not a social construct.
lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
This is an “either I’m stupid or everybody else” moment and I let you decide on your own.
Words don’t have inherent meaning but get meaning by the people who use it in the context they do. It’s an collective and context sensitive process. I remember how in one linguistics lecture (typology), we differentiated prepositions from postpositions whereas the syntax prof was like “I don’t care if the preposition is before or after”.
Also: Judith Butler discusses your gamete definition as utterly irrelevant in this context in Who’s Afraid Of Gender so it’s not that they aren’t aware. That’s all the hint I give you.
powerstruggle@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Judith Butler is one of those people that, when you find yourself agreeing with her, you should sit back and really consider how you arrived at that conclusion. She’s not always wrong, but she’s very wrong on a lot of stuff, including the gamete definition. Here’s one example:
whyevolutionistrue.com/…/judith-butler-on-trumps-…
You may see elsewhere in this thread where I point out the difference between sex determination and sex definition, which is mentioned in that link:
The gist of the article is: