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Originally posted by Big Smoke
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The concepts most people have of "male" and "female" are products of society; gender roles, for example -- the old idea that women should stay in the kitchen and men should bring in the money. There is nothing logical about gender roles; there is nothing natural or free-flowing about them. They have been created by society. They are social constructs.
It's like that with all of our concepts of what's "masculine" or "feminine." The old, "guys wear blue, girls wear pink" thing -- there is no mechanism in the mind that predisposes girls to want pink things. Society says girls should have pink things, and want to have pink things, so they are given pink things. Social construct.
Soooo what do we get from all this?
Gender itself is a social construct. Masculinity and femininity do not exist -- they're things we've made up.
It's important to realize that gender is separate from sex, though -- sex involves biology, chromosomes -- whether you have a penis or a vagina or something in between.
Although society hates it, based on the social construct of gender -- a boy can have a vagina. A girl can have a penis. Some people choose not to identify with those terms at all. They identify somewhere in-between, or maybe they identify with nothing at all -- like sexuality, gender is a spectrum. All dichotomies are false dichotomies, in the long run.
