Ehehe, you people keep talking and I'm EDITING! I edited, and stuff -- and put in all the stuff I'd, uhm, thought I was putting in last night when I was typing with my eyes closed.
Shorter version, though: yes, we have 'sex' for biology, and 'gender' for behavior, which is a useful dissection when you're trying to deconstruct where one begins and the other ends, and how they impact each other. What those two words cannot do, however, is capture the unique state that results where sex and gender meet in a person (as I just said in the big honking edited-added part, but I'm used to repeating myself).
I'm pretty presumptuous (on bad days, just plain ornery), so I've no problem carrying that forth and saying that this third word would be one that represents our point where the x-axis of 'sex' meets the y-axis of 'gender'.
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Date: 6 Mar 2010 12:32 am (UTC)Shorter version, though: yes, we have 'sex' for biology, and 'gender' for behavior, which is a useful dissection when you're trying to deconstruct where one begins and the other ends, and how they impact each other. What those two words cannot do, however, is capture the unique state that results where sex and gender meet in a person (as I just said in the big honking edited-added part, but I'm used to repeating myself).
I'm pretty presumptuous (on bad days, just plain ornery), so I've no problem carrying that forth and saying that this third word would be one that represents our point where the x-axis of 'sex' meets the y-axis of 'gender'.