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Sufeitzy's avatar

Brief and cut-jewel in precision.

One day it will be clear the single purpose of “gender”, used outside linguistics, is to create confusion about sex. This is done mostly by men to take advantage of women.

The word will seen clearly as a pejorative, like “cheat”, as in “he used gender to cheat”, which is the single most common usage I see seeing today.

Similar to hair color and eye color, behaviors are on a spectrum, and don’t have a unique sex link.

Nobody can be the wrong sex because they are kind or assertive.

It must be said constantly now, because of “gender” (cheating), that features like these are human characteristics, not sexual characteristics.

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Donna Druchunas's avatar

Q: But many of us do reject those stereotypes, don’t we?

A: Yes, fortunately. Bem called these people androgynous.

I call these people free.

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Mariah Burton Nelson's avatar

Love it. Free indeed.

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