Talk:Gender (disambiguation)

Sex - Gender - Usage
Gender refers to cultural characteristics while sex refers to biological characteristics.One's society attaches preferred behaviors and demeanor to that person's sexual identity. IF a person is biologically a male then society prefers that that individual follow a prescribed gender path identified as masculine.If the individual is biologically a female, then the preferred gender behavior is the feminine one. These two words are not synonyms and cannot be used interchanged. Gender is not the same as sex. A person has a biological identifier ( sex) and a cultural indentifier ( gender). OFten times the cultural identifier ( gender) does not match the biological identifier ( sex). A male sexed being will behave in feminine defined gender or a person with femal biological characteristics will act in culturally identified masculine ways. THese persons are identifed as deviant and are said to be cross-gendered. User:24.181.194.183


 * I'd be a bit carefull with a word like "deviant" - this is a value judgement, and not exactly a positive one. Not to mention that whether being transgender can justifiably called deviant is quite open to debate.
 * Nevertheless, you are partially right about sex not being the same as gender - it is not. Unfortunatly, current English usage is not so precise, and gender is increasingly used as a synonym for sex, even when very clearly only the "hardware part" is meant. You might want to have a look at Talk:Gender.
 * If you want to further participate in the debate, may I however suggest that you sign your entries in the future? It makes reading a debate much, much simpler. That is done with -- ~ It would also be nice if you would get yourself a username, because calling people 24.181 does just not feel proper. -- AlexR 07:23, 15 August 2005 (UTC)


 * If you can access it, the OED page is fairly interesting as it has the earliest record of each usage
 * grammatical distinction ~1390
 * groups with common characteristics ~1400
 * male/female ~1470
 * sociological distinction ~1940
 * 74.215.119.97 (talk) 00:08, 4 August 2017 (UTC)