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View submission: Do non-binary identities reenforce gender stereotypes?
Using gender to define someone falls within male female
Comment by RyeZuul at 14/01/2025 at 16:22 UTC*
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There's a difference between external perception, cultural language construction and phenomenal experience.
Words are a lossy, categorical format describing a complex world simply, and so losses of nuances and data to cover everything and everyone are going to happen. People aren't designed to understand everything all the time.
Think of biology and language more about describing/sketching out trends rather than metaphysical absolutes delivered by the English god.
Comment by Jolandersson at 13/01/2025 at 16:10 UTC
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“Gender refers to the characteristics of women, men, girls and boys that are socially constructed. This includes norms, behaviours and roles associated with being a woman, man, girl or boy, as well as relationships with each other.“
That’s very different from sex. There’s nothing biological about gender, just another way to put us into groups. A transwoman isn’t a man, but she’s still a male.