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Posted by: AgentCOP1
Posted by: Locke357
Posted by: Murcielago00
A. I fail to see how gender and sex are independent, besides that of the psychological community saying they are.Well psychologists are the ones with doctorates in studying the human mind.
Sex is merely biology. It simply refers to your reproductive organs. Gender, however, is the identity of being either masculine or feminine, of which is socially constructed primarily.
Actually, the word gender comes from the Latin word genus. We use the word genetics to talk about someone's genes. Gender is talking specifically about the biological attributes of someone.
Genus=genes=gender
Your joking right? Just because two words have a common latin root doesn't mean they have the same meaning. Besides, you got the meaning of the root completely backwards, genus simply means: "a class, order, or type"
Both genes and gender are separated into types, hence the use of the root, but gender is pretty much exclusively used to describe societal roles in various cultures, not biology.
[Edited on 12.03.2012 7:03 PM PST]