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View submission: Do non-binary identities reenforce gender stereotypes?
Gender is a social construct, sex is not. Even if a person defines themselves as non-binary or trans, they’re still either male or female.
Comment by ta0029271 at 14/01/2025 at 09:08 UTC
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I'm starting to think that "gender" is just a useless term. No one knows what you mean by it unless you take a paragraph to explain, everyone has a different definition. Most people just use it to mean sex.
Comment by manicmonkeys at 14/01/2025 at 18:32 UTC
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The question then is, why should a person care about someone's gender? If I can continue doing everything I'm doing now, but declare myself to be of another gender, what impact is that supposed to have?
Comment by Glittering-Gur5513 at 14/01/2025 at 05:28 UTC
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So why do forms ask for "assigned gender at birth" rather than "sex"?
Comment by LeagueEfficient5945 at 15/01/2025 at 08:39 UTC
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Gender is a political class. Either you're on top, so you're a man.
Or you're on the bottom, so you're a woman.
Sex is a motivated reasoning theory which aims to ground the political inequality of gender into a natural explanation. "If the inequality is natural, then we don't need to fix it".
(Sometimes, certain cultures will have a 3rd category for failed men - men who disgrace themselves by not being proper agents of patriarchal dominance in some way, so that, by belonging in this 3rd category, they don't bring shame to all men.
Sometimes, certain cultures will have a 3rd category for particularly impressive women - women who are called upon to serve the community in an outstanding way, such that, by belonging to this exceptional category, they don't bring glory to all women (and perturb the inequality of patriarchy).)
Comment by neverendingplush93 at 13/01/2025 at 16:04 UTC
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Using gender to define someone falls within male female
Comment by Vegetable_Park_6014 at 14/01/2025 at 17:14 UTC
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this is not uncontroversially true. plenty of smart people argue that sex, too, is constructed. that's the entire argument of Judith Butler's Gender Trouble.
Comment by MurderousRubberDucky at 14/01/2025 at 21:54 UTC
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What about intersex people they don't fall in male/female binaries