No it's not. That is a new usage and meant to obfuscate and confuse and demoralize, like all Marxist language trickery. Sex refers to biology and anatomy. Gender categories were not used outside of language and grammar studies traditionally. Marxists following John Money started using (exploiting) gender to refer to "social roles" which used to be properly called sex roles. This change happened within my lifetime. Periods are a biological function of the XX chromosome reproductive organs. Playing political language games doesn't change that absolute fact.
The word 'gender' comes from the word "genus" which basically means 'type'. Gender became a popular synonym for biological sex when it became very common to refer to sexual copulation as just "sex".
That's it.
John Money did start modern "gender theory" with his idea that gender was somehow separate from sex, which was a stupid idea then and a stupid idea now. It was always synonymous with biological sex.
That is the etymology but I am still old enough to remember when the switch happened. Using sex, instead of euphemisms like nookie, to refer to copulation happened when I was a kid in the 60s and 70s. And many people were openly uncomfortable with such indelicate language. The push to replace the word sex with gender, and to normalize that usage when describing people, came when I was in grad school in the 1990s. Money's perverse usage was the conceptual wedge that was used to drive and legitimize the change. The big push for new usage first came out of then novel university grievance studies departments. From there it spread to the liberal arts and soft sciences and finally to the corporate and government spheres, where it became entrenched and normalized. Again I watched this happen, and fought it to such a degree as I was able. You would be hard pressed to find any book, whether academic or artistic, more than 30 years old where gender is used in the manner in which we are being coerced to use it now.
Gender is not a synonym for sex. The use of gender instead of sex was a deliberate attempt to create a new category of what you feel/do as opposed to your biological sex.
Gender IS biological sex. (It's not a "social construct".) English has a parallel vocabulary since the French-speaking Normans invaded and imposed their rule over German-speaking Saxons. So we have parallel vocabularies (one set of words from Latin, one from German). Hence why we have "kingly" and "regal," "raise" and "rear," "height" and "altitude". Gender and sex co-existed for the same reason, and were synonyms.
I speak Italian. On Italian forms, when they ask for your sex, they request you to fill in your "genere," your gender. It comes from the root word that also gives us "generate" [as if to generate a child] and "genitals".
"Gender" is just about the worst word to try and de-peg from biology, because it's a direct reference to it. Gender is no more a "social construct" than your genitals are. (Hint: Same word.)
No disagreement. As I said we always used gender in language classes. I took French and German fwiw, in addition to English. No way to learn any romance languages without gender for sure. There were instances like forms where either word could be used but I don't remember seeing gender used most of the time. Old school typing and printing methods probably favored a three letter word over six. The idea that sex and gender could in some cases not match and that this should dictate policy is a very recent development. I remember when it came to my university department and when it came to my husband's corporate offices. It seemed crazy and nonsensical because it was. I prefer using sex over gender because nowadays so many people are indoctrinated into the paradigm which insists that the words have totally different meanings. It's a little way of fighting back against this evil perversion of the language.
It's not a gender thing. It's a biological sex thing period.
We would also just die if we peed blood for a week.
If you cut your dick off, it will
bleedmenstruatexirstruate 🔪 🩸Mr. Garrison: You can't trust anything that bleeds for a week but doesn't die.
Gender is a synonym for sex so...yea it's a gender thing.
No it's not. That is a new usage and meant to obfuscate and confuse and demoralize, like all Marxist language trickery. Sex refers to biology and anatomy. Gender categories were not used outside of language and grammar studies traditionally. Marxists following John Money started using (exploiting) gender to refer to "social roles" which used to be properly called sex roles. This change happened within my lifetime. Periods are a biological function of the XX chromosome reproductive organs. Playing political language games doesn't change that absolute fact.
You couldn't be more wrong.
The word 'gender' comes from the word "genus" which basically means 'type'. Gender became a popular synonym for biological sex when it became very common to refer to sexual copulation as just "sex".
That's it.
John Money did start modern "gender theory" with his idea that gender was somehow separate from sex, which was a stupid idea then and a stupid idea now. It was always synonymous with biological sex.
That is the etymology but I am still old enough to remember when the switch happened. Using sex, instead of euphemisms like nookie, to refer to copulation happened when I was a kid in the 60s and 70s. And many people were openly uncomfortable with such indelicate language. The push to replace the word sex with gender, and to normalize that usage when describing people, came when I was in grad school in the 1990s. Money's perverse usage was the conceptual wedge that was used to drive and legitimize the change. The big push for new usage first came out of then novel university grievance studies departments. From there it spread to the liberal arts and soft sciences and finally to the corporate and government spheres, where it became entrenched and normalized. Again I watched this happen, and fought it to such a degree as I was able. You would be hard pressed to find any book, whether academic or artistic, more than 30 years old where gender is used in the manner in which we are being coerced to use it now.
Regardless of the etymology of the word, you are incorrect. Gender as it is currently used is a new concept and is supposed to be subjective.
Now, if you're saying that the word gender has been hijacked, I agree.
However, prior to the hijack, no one used gender and sex interchangeably. I remember exactly when that started to change.
While true, is it even worth acknowledging their garbage?
I'd like to put every effort into not legitimizing their cult.
I don't want to legitimize them either. But I do feel compelled to fight for proper use the the English language. Two buttons meme, I guess.
Gender is not a synonym for sex. The use of gender instead of sex was a deliberate attempt to create a new category of what you feel/do as opposed to your biological sex.
Gender IS biological sex. (It's not a "social construct".) English has a parallel vocabulary since the French-speaking Normans invaded and imposed their rule over German-speaking Saxons. So we have parallel vocabularies (one set of words from Latin, one from German). Hence why we have "kingly" and "regal," "raise" and "rear," "height" and "altitude". Gender and sex co-existed for the same reason, and were synonyms.
I speak Italian. On Italian forms, when they ask for your sex, they request you to fill in your "genere," your gender. It comes from the root word that also gives us "generate" [as if to generate a child] and "genitals".
"Gender" is just about the worst word to try and de-peg from biology, because it's a direct reference to it. Gender is no more a "social construct" than your genitals are. (Hint: Same word.)
No disagreement. As I said we always used gender in language classes. I took French and German fwiw, in addition to English. No way to learn any romance languages without gender for sure. There were instances like forms where either word could be used but I don't remember seeing gender used most of the time. Old school typing and printing methods probably favored a three letter word over six. The idea that sex and gender could in some cases not match and that this should dictate policy is a very recent development. I remember when it came to my university department and when it came to my husband's corporate offices. It seemed crazy and nonsensical because it was. I prefer using sex over gender because nowadays so many people are indoctrinated into the paradigm which insists that the words have totally different meanings. It's a little way of fighting back against this evil perversion of the language.