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You are very clearly lacking in familiarity with cross cultural and historical studies. Otherwise you would be aware that gender shows variation in both.
I have to hand it to you, for someone who has absolutely no idea what they're talking about in this particular instance, you sure do push the dramatic vocabulary with tremendous consistency. Abuse, mutilation, fantasy. It's a great read!
Nothing to deny in terms of a society pretending to be a different sex and accepting that you are one because you felt that way never happened until now with a portion of the population.
Nothing to mix up it never happened in the world of biology. And yes the made up recent term of gender is the same as sex. You can’t physically be something you aren’t.
Your entire position in our disagreement has been that the biological and the sociocultural are the same thing. My stance is that they are not. Therefore sex and gender are different.
Every single word is made up. But no, gender is the sociocultural and sex is the biological. For them to be the same would mean there is no distinction between the sociocultural and the biological.
I have not at any point made that claim. Once more, I separate the biological from the sociocultural. It is only you that believes there is no distinction between biology and culture.
There is no historical cross cultural experience in societies for sex confusion. At least nothing that made the slightest difference in what you are. It seems they were more sane and smarter in this time period on the subject.
I have not at any point made that claim. Once more, I separate the biological from the sociocultural. It is only you that believes there is no distinction between biology and culture.
Within the same post you got my stance apparently and then lost it moments later. I haven't exactly been hiding it. My stance is simply that the sociocultural and biological are not the same thing. That gender refers to the sociocultural dimensions of it and sex refers to the biological. You have however made numerous claims about the human condition which go beyond the discussion here. I have simply responded to these claims. Such as the next one that you can't change your biology.
Human biology is incredibly varied and displays itself in a lot of ways. Conceivably there is a stronger case for not being able to change our genotypes since this is not typically a level at which we can act. But with increasing understanding of the complex interactions between our biology and the sociocultural we are learning we can have more impact on our phenotypes. We can change our biology in lots of ways and when we can't directly change it we can use means to circumvent it. Although it is still quite complicated.
All words are made up. This isn't unique to the word gender. People have been inventing and modifying words for thousands of years. Not only that but the meanings and pronunciations of words can change too. The usefulness in words come from how they enable communication and understanding. Having gender and sex referring to sociocultural and biological dimensions respectively enables study and analysis of other cultures and time periods.
Their understandings of gender were different and in a lot of them they had means through which people could change their gender. It wasn't just Native Americans. It also varied in how it played out among Native Americans as well as other cultures. There were also societies that had multiple genders based on what stage of life a person is in. Similar to the difference between a girl and a woman or a boy and a man. Although these were ritualized and carried more reaching implications. People weren't choosing to change their gender, it was simply part of aging.
Within the same post you got my stance apparently and then lost it moments later. I haven't exactly been hiding it. My stance is simply that the sociocultural and biological are not the same thing.
But with increasing understanding of the complex interactions between our biology and the sociocultural we are learning we can have more impact on our phenotypes.
Similar to the difference between a girl and a woman or a boy and a man. Although these were ritualized and carried more reaching implications. People weren't choosing to change their gender, it was simply part of aging.
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