Gender Is Not A Social Construct

tenchineuro · 2018-04-03T14:27:02+00:00

No, 'gender' is a language construct, masculine and feminine, although today it has morphed into something unrecognizable.

LoganBlade13 · 2018-04-04T13:08:39+00:00

Naa whoever said penis=male vagina=female was a cisgender heteronormative white male scum. Because who needs science when you have feelings.

ThePigmanAgain · 2018-04-03T23:28:35+00:00

Gender IS a social construct. That is the only way the word is intellectually useful. If you conflate it with sex, it becomes worse than useless, it becomes a way of preventing rational discourse.

mcmur · 2018-04-03T20:05:13+00:00

He sounds like an idiot here. Gender is unequivocally socially-constructed. Gender is behavior, not biology. He seems to be confusing sex (which concerns biology) with gender (which concerns behavior) which would be forgivable if he wasn't claiming to be an expert on the topic, since that is an extremely rudimentary mistake that would be made by someone who has literally no background at all in studying society or gender.

Gender is what you do. Its not in my DNA to not wear a dress simply because I'm male. There is no 'dress-wearing' gene that exists on my DNA that could be observed by a geneticist. Its nonsense. I don't wear one because our society has defined via social-convention that wearing a dress is a 'feminine' behavior. 2000 years ago in ancient Rome, males wore what we might consider today 'dresses', they did not wear pants. Back then, it was not considered 'unmasculine' to not wear pants - nobody wore pants in that society. The coding of wearing pants as 'masculine' and dresses as 'feminine' is simply social convention and not rooted in biology. I mean it would be absurd if your genes told you what color and style of clothing you were going to wear.

Title	Gender Is Not A Social Construct
Author	Morphos1759
Upvotes	38
Comments	33
Date	April 3, 2018 9:44 AM UTC (8 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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