05-25-2016, 12:13 PM
(05-25-2016, 12:08 PM)PhilHos Wrote: False. I see this statement thrown around a lot and in varying ways on the internet and it baffles me how many people get this simple concept wrong. Gender is NOT a social construct. Gender roles are. Being a boy or a girl is NOT a social construct. The idea that boys play with action figures and girls play with dolls is.
Gender does not equal gender role.
OED specifies that it typically refers to social or cultural characteristics and not biological. But definitions on the topic vary. APA defines it as such:
Quote:Gender refers to the attitudes, feelings, and behaviors that a given culture associates with a person’s biological sex. Behavior that is compatible with cultural expectations is referred to as gender-normative; behaviors that are viewed as incompatible with these expectations constitute gender non-conformity.
Not everything is in agreement on it, but the way the language is moving is that gender refers to behavioral and sex refers to biological.
Edit: Not really arguing, just bringing some information into this.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
