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anon (01/12/2016) [-] 
Gender is literally none of the seven. None of them even come close to being acceptable inputs.
Sex is defined by body parts. Sex is defined by chromosomes.
Gender is a dynamic social construct of expectations related to an individual's specific sex.
Gender is, succinctly, "expectations people have of you strictly because of your sex regardless of your personality or what you identify as". That means you're expected to not wear bras if you're a male or piss while standing if you're a female.
If you're a woman and only 70% of the things you do are feminine rather than the expected 90-100%, all it says is you're a slightly masculine female, nothing more.
When generic forms ask for your "gender" rather than your "sex", it's because the forms are wrong.
"Relating to yourself" is also perhaps the stupidest most nonsensical string of words ever uttered, inherently not being able to mean anything or even imply anything whatsoever, resulting in the literal impossibility to even come remotely close to expressing any information at all.
Sex is defined by body parts. Sex is defined by chromosomes.
Gender is a dynamic social construct of expectations related to an individual's specific sex.
Gender is, succinctly, "expectations people have of you strictly because of your sex regardless of your personality or what you identify as". That means you're expected to not wear bras if you're a male or piss while standing if you're a female.
If you're a woman and only 70% of the things you do are feminine rather than the expected 90-100%, all it says is you're a slightly masculine female, nothing more.
When generic forms ask for your "gender" rather than your "sex", it's because the forms are wrong.
"Relating to yourself" is also perhaps the stupidest most nonsensical string of words ever uttered, inherently not being able to mean anything or even imply anything whatsoever, resulting in the literal impossibility to even come remotely close to expressing any information at all.
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anon (10 hours ago) [-]
Is Gender really a social construct?
Isn't Society a gender construct? Do you really think this whole system was set up, and then we decided "men work women clean. Boys like fighting girls like dolls"?
No, societies are a construct of what males and females felt they individually should do in the societies they created. That is why there are differences, but in the majority of them males are fighters and providers, and women are nurturers.
I'm not saying that therefor nothing should change and we shouldn't accept people who want to go against the norm, and I'm also not saying that our current society as a result cannot change people who do go against the norm. But I don't think that somehow society has created a chemical and psychological stance in everyones head. Masculine traits in males and Feminine traits in females can be observed from birth, they don't just decide to start acting the way they do when people tell them to.
Sure, when a girl spits and her mother tells her that its unladylike, she is making an affect on that girl. But most of the time, when a girl goes to the toy store, it is the child leading the parent to the toy aisle to buy a doll.
I don't buy that gender is a social construct because the biology wouldn't make sense. Maybe I'm wrong, but I haven't exactly read any studies that can show that it is.
Isn't Society a gender construct? Do you really think this whole system was set up, and then we decided "men work women clean. Boys like fighting girls like dolls"?
No, societies are a construct of what males and females felt they individually should do in the societies they created. That is why there are differences, but in the majority of them males are fighters and providers, and women are nurturers.
I'm not saying that therefor nothing should change and we shouldn't accept people who want to go against the norm, and I'm also not saying that our current society as a result cannot change people who do go against the norm. But I don't think that somehow society has created a chemical and psychological stance in everyones head. Masculine traits in males and Feminine traits in females can be observed from birth, they don't just decide to start acting the way they do when people tell them to.
Sure, when a girl spits and her mother tells her that its unladylike, she is making an affect on that girl. But most of the time, when a girl goes to the toy store, it is the child leading the parent to the toy aisle to buy a doll.
I don't buy that gender is a social construct because the biology wouldn't make sense. Maybe I'm wrong, but I haven't exactly read any studies that can show that it is.
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durkadurka (12 hours ago) [-] Gender is more than a social construct. If this were the case you could socialize a male into behaving like a female.
I'm not saying that there's nothing socially constructed about gender; you can see it in things like preferences for the color blue versus pink. But ultimately if you could strip away the impact of our society from people and let them develop on their own, you'd still see a familiar differentiation between the men and women.
Our minds are set up to fit in certain roles because it was simply beneficial from a reproductive standpoint.
I'm not saying that there's nothing socially constructed about gender; you can see it in things like preferences for the color blue versus pink. But ultimately if you could strip away the impact of our society from people and let them develop on their own, you'd still see a familiar differentiation between the men and women.
Our minds are set up to fit in certain roles because it was simply beneficial from a reproductive standpoint.
