If most people don’t have a feeling for gender, why does gender even exist in the first place?
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.
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kindakind@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 hours agonothing to worry about.
Well I don’t really worry about anything, I’m fine with how it is.
Most people don’t really have much of a feeling there either. Don’t overthink it.
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?
If most people don’t have a feeling for gender, why does gender even exist in the first place?
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.
treeofnik@discuss.online 10 hours ago
Patriarchal control mechanism