RE: Questions about genders ... male/female
January 18, 2015 at 9:09 pm
(This post was last modified: January 18, 2015 at 9:17 pm by bennyboy.)
(January 18, 2015 at 12:33 am)NuclearJaguar Wrote: In a cultural sense, sexual reproduction has very little to do with "gender". Having a penis or a vagina is more related to your sex."Gender" comes from "genus," with "gen" being Latin for "coming to be; create." The book of "Genesis" is about the creation of the world. An electric "generator" creates electricity. "Genetic" material is DNA, the code of the creation of an organism, not a tube of lube or a strap-on.
This confuses some people, but think of it as "sex is physical, gender is mental". Your gender is your identity, so it is possible to be biologically male while seeing yourself as female or vice versa (which would make you transgender)
Nobody is "confused." Everyone knows how babies are made-- male + female + alcohol = new person. Now, some people care less about the baby-making and more about the identity of traditional "male" and "female" traits, either physical or stereotypical role-based, and about the freedom to intermingle those traits into something wonderful and new. It's beautiful that our society allows people to do that. But the word "gender," scientifically, classes the reproductive role of a given organism, and this thread is in the science subforum.
