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Exactly, gender is useless and doesn’t make any sense. Like you said, people use gender when they mean sex.
I think it has a lot to do with language as well. In my native language we don’t have any equivalent term to female/male, we just use woman/man in every context. Is that better? I don’t know.
Comment by ta0029271 at 14/01/2025 at 13:49 UTC
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I think it's better, because man and woman refer to adult males/females. But do you have a word for feminine/masculine? I think "masculine woman" makes far more sense than saying that person is less of a woman or actually a man just because they present more typically masculine.
Comment by thedorknightreturns at 14/01/2025 at 15:48 UTC
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Its not, its literally mostly in medicine you would ever use the sex of someone, maybe if you are intimate.
And that rarely aplies to everyday people where people very much talk about gender.
And yes gender is entirely about social constructs even if overlapping with sex.
Sex is just weird to talk about because its either medical important, or about well, genitals and i dont think why its important to talk about most peoples genitals in everyday life .
If people mean sex using that to everyone, they are creeps.
So yes people mean gender pretty much usually.
And the reason why is prettymuch medical to have that different that exists.
If you have an intersex perdon thats pretty much a dude but in sex, well intersex. Which its why its not useless.
And reducing people to their reproductive organs is pretty creepy, why would you?