Comment on OnLy tWo eLemEnTs
lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 hours agoSex encompasses everything about the body including external and internal organs, hormones, (facial) hair, voice (level), body height, … none of which are binary. Reducing it to gamete size makes it meaningless
powerstruggle@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago
Those are sex phenotypes
lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 hours ago
And that’s what sex means in the context of sex vs gender. Are you new to the concept that words have different meanings in different contexts? This isn’t about evolutionary biology.
powerstruggle@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
Well, no. People just misunderstand what sex means in that context. You can’t disentangle sex vs gender from evolutionary biology.
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
Gender is a social construct. There, I disentangled it from evolutionary biology.
lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 hours ago
This is an “either I’m stupid or everybody else” moment and I let you decide on your own.
Words don’t have inherent meaning but get meaning by the people who use it in the context they do. It’s an collective and context sensitive process. I remember how in one linguistics lecture (typology), we differentiated prepositions from postpositions whereas the syntax prof was like “I don’t care if the preposition is before or after”.
Also: Judith Butler discusses your gamete definition as utterly irrelevant in this context in Who’s Afraid Of Gender so it’s not that they aren’t aware. That’s all the hint I give you.