Sex and Gender. What is the difference

[AngleEyes]

For those that can't tell the difference between sex and gender

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SEX AND GENDER?
Gender and sex are two very separate terms, despite people commonly thinking they mean the same thing. Learn about the difference between gender and sex.
https://www.brook.org.uk/your-life/...LizZJfOZrj7z7ljVmSQDB3mVyeBH3IQhoCtwsQAvD_BwE
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Sex is male and female.
Gender is man and woman.

 

[Deleted member 18243]

Gender is the grammatical classification of masculine, feminine or neuter.

Some sex pervert professor in the 50s or 60s misappropriated the word to use in place of "sex", which is the biological classification of male and female. It caught on, and nowadays even government officials use the word to mean sex.

The word sex meanwhile is now mostly used as a contraction of sexual intercourse.

 

[transam]

Nah I won’t be bothering to read it

all a load of baloney imo

put around by fruit cakes

 

[AngleEyes]

Gender is the grammatical classification of masculine, feminine or neuter.

Some sex pervert professor in the 50s or 60s misappropriated the word to use in place of "sex", which is the biological classification of male and female. It caught on, and nowadays even government officials use the word to mean sex.

The word sex meanwhile is now mostly used as a contraction of sexual intercourse.

You consider you are in a better qualified position to disagree with Brook Young People, Medical News Today ( https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/232363 ), ONS ( https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/envi...isthedifferencebetweensexandgender/2019-02-21 )

Please enlighten us with your credentials to allow you to disagree with such eminent organisations.

 

[EFLImpudence]

Anyone is allowed and perfectly entitled to disagree with them (Brook).

 

[AngleEyes]

Nah I won’t be bothering to read it

all a load of baloney imo

put around by fruit cakes

You're content to label those whose argument you refuse to even read, as fruit cakes.
You should transition into an ostrich. It would be more fitting.

 

[Justin Passing]

The defnitions of the terms are in flux. Look at dictionaries, and the official view of the moment:
https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/envi...isthedifferencebetweensexandgender/2019-02-21
etc etc.

The definitions proposed in the original post lead logically to these: an adult female can be a man, and an adult male can be a woman.
Some people aren't happy with that, and it's a new way to consider the issues. Dictionarries, Wikipedia and so on still have contradicting definitions which were unquestioned a few years ago.

I'm not comfortable with the limited words we have, but I don't have an answer.
As pointed out above, "gender" is hard to pin down, now.
Can someone be 70% gender man and 30% gender woman? How would anyone measure it?
If they said they watch mostly heterosexual porn and some gay porn, They'd be labelled with a string of derogatory terms, so in most cases wouldn't admit it.

There are new words, in the "cis" group, but I don't see them catching on.

 

[AngleEyes]

Anyone is allowed and perfectly entitled to disagree with them (Brook).

Of course you are. When that disagreement extends to other eminent organisation, then the average intelligent person would start to question their own viewpoint.

 

[EFLImpudence]

Of course it wouldn't.

All sorts of so-called eminent organisations are spouting utter nonsense these days.

 

[AngleEyes]

Of course it wouldn't.

All sorts of so-called eminent organisations are spouting utter nonsense these days.

I suppose that depends on your view of which organisations deserve the description of 'eminent'.
Those that spout utter nonsense I wouldn't describe as eminent.

 

[EFLImpudence]

So, only ones you agree with can be eminent.

 

[AngleEyes]

So, only ones you agree with can be eminent.

Not at all, I can disagree but recognise the validity of the counter argument.
It is eminently possible to respect another's view and see the validity in their reasoning, but disagree with them.
For instance, I can see the validity in the argument of Keynesian policies, but I may not agree with it.
I can see the argument of Darwinian theory of survival of the fittest, but modern society outperforms that theory on moral and ethical grounds.

 

[pcaouolte]

Does their sex or gender affect their ability to perform DIY tasks? Or am I mistaken in believing that this is a DIY forum?

 

[AngleEyes]

Does their sex or gender affect their ability to perform DIY tasks?

What is your opinion?

Or am I mistaken in believing that this is a DIY forum?

It's called DIYnot, what do you think?

 

[pcaouolte]

What is your opinion?

I know some people who are very good at DIY, I know some other people who are not very good at DIY. The difference doesn't seem to correlate with sex or gender.
Personally, other than myself and my wife, I couldn't care less what anyone else identifies as.
Threads like this are started with the aim of winding people up, I find that pathetic.