Comment on How do you "feel" gender?
RamRabbit@lemmy.world 10 months ago
no feeling like other people have
Most people don’t really have much of a feeling there either. You just are. If you are cool with who you are, then there is nothing to worry about.
Don’t overthink it.
kindakind@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
Well I don’t really worry about anything, I’m fine with how it is.
But a question which does arise reading this answer is: If most people don’t have a feeling for gender, why does gender even exist in the first place? I view gender as a set of personality traits that are summarized under one term (a gender). If you match the personality traits connected to a certain gender, you have this gender. This makes it easier for people to have a basic overview of your personality without you having to explain much. But if most people actually don’t really correspond to gender norms and don’t have a feeling for their gender, doesn’t gender cease to exist? Isn’t it just your name and your pronouns at this point?
RamRabbit@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Gender and Sex were synonyms up until very recently, and many people still consider them synonyms. Gender was the ‘nice’ way to refer to one’s sex.
treeofnik@discuss.online 10 months ago
Patriarchal control mechanism