The two words were only interchangeable to those who benefited from cultural stereotypes of gender and they were harmful. Big boys don’t cry all your teachers are women dads leave and go to work all day. Gender has always been a thing
I believe those were called sex stereotypes and ironically the postmodern Gender project doesn't work to eradicate them, but instead has rebirthed and reified them in the form of rigid ideological labeling. Thus if your son plays with dolls or paints his nails out comes the most regressive stereotypes of sexual expression, and he must be a "girl" (possibly in need of castration).
This is repression disguised as liberation, overseen by our newest priesthood of dour moralists, the Gender Studies zealots.
Yup. Over decades ago. In the 60’s, we (called women libbers back then) set about to change the sex-based stereotypes that were preventing humans from experiencing full humanness. You know the ones...like the ones Michael mentions. And yet we were also a bit leery of using the word “sex” as, you know, it had other connotations. The word “sex” could be confusing. So we started using the word “gender” as a replacement for the word “sex”. What is so weird about the academics and institutions foisting this “gender identity” racket on us (egads we are still reducing this to dolls v trucks?) is that is so reactionary. The absolute opposite opposite of revolutionary. It’s driving us back to the 1950’s or probably more accurately the 1500’s.
It seems like the problems largely stem from the tendency to merge our understanding of sex binary with our understanding of gender.
The two words were only interchangeable to those who benefited from cultural stereotypes of gender and they were harmful. Big boys don’t cry all your teachers are women dads leave and go to work all day. Gender has always been a thing
I believe those were called sex stereotypes and ironically the postmodern Gender project doesn't work to eradicate them, but instead has rebirthed and reified them in the form of rigid ideological labeling. Thus if your son plays with dolls or paints his nails out comes the most regressive stereotypes of sexual expression, and he must be a "girl" (possibly in need of castration).
This is repression disguised as liberation, overseen by our newest priesthood of dour moralists, the Gender Studies zealots.
Yup. Over decades ago. In the 60’s, we (called women libbers back then) set about to change the sex-based stereotypes that were preventing humans from experiencing full humanness. You know the ones...like the ones Michael mentions. And yet we were also a bit leery of using the word “sex” as, you know, it had other connotations. The word “sex” could be confusing. So we started using the word “gender” as a replacement for the word “sex”. What is so weird about the academics and institutions foisting this “gender identity” racket on us (egads we are still reducing this to dolls v trucks?) is that is so reactionary. The absolute opposite opposite of revolutionary. It’s driving us back to the 1950’s or probably more accurately the 1500’s.