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Originally posted by SUNSET BLVD
Wait, reading through this thread. Y'all are so legitimately stupid.
Gender is a social construct. It is NOT the same thing as sex (male and female)
" Gender is determined by the conception of tasks, functions and roles attributed to women and men in society and in public and private life."
This is not the same as the biological features of male and female.
Gender is society saying that girls like pink and flowers and cats and boys like blue and cars and dogs. Who decided that these were true though? It's a social convention, not a biological fact.
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"Gender is the range of characteristics pertaining to, and differentiating between, masculinity and femininity.
Depending on the context, these characteristics may include biological sex (i.e. the state of being male, female or an intersex variation which may complicate sex assignment), sex-based social structures (including gender roles and other social roles), or gender identity."
"In other contexts, including some areas of social sciences, gender includes sex or replaces it."
Part of it being a "social construct" means people define it by different criteria.