Comment on How do you "feel" gender?
RamRabbit@lemmy.world 1 day ago
no feeling like other people have
Most people don’t really have much of a feeling there either. You just are. If you are cool with who you are, then there is nothing to worry about.
Don’t overthink it.
kindakind@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 hours ago
Well I don’t really worry about anything, I’m fine with how it is.
But a question which does arise reading this answer is: If most people don’t have a feeling for gender, why does gender even exist in the first place? I view gender as a set of personality traits that are summarized under one term (a gender). If you match the personality traits connected to a certain gender, you have this gender. This makes it easier for people to have a basic overview of your personality without you having to explain much. But if most people actually don’t really correspond to gender norms and don’t have a feeling for their gender, doesn’t gender cease to exist? Isn’t it just your name and your pronouns at this point?
treeofnik@discuss.online 12 hours ago
Patriarchal control mechanism
RamRabbit@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Gender and Sex were synonyms up until very recently, and many people still consider them synonyms. Gender was the ‘nice’ way to refer to one’s sex.