"I have long understood that men and women all have various elements of attributes associated with masculinity and femininely without cause for more than two genders"
When you say "gender" here are you referring to the terms male and female or man and woman or masculine and feminine? Again, this is the kind linguistic precision we need to…
"I have long understood that men and women all have various elements of attributes associated with masculinity and femininely without cause for more than two genders"
When you say "gender" here are you referring to the terms male and female or man and woman or masculine and feminine? Again, this is the kind linguistic precision we need to try to really pin down. Here's my framing:
There are two sexes. Male and female. The words for these sexes when referring to human beings are man and woman. You can't be anything other than a man or a woman because you can't be anything other than a male or a female.
But gender, at least as it's used in most of these discussions, refers to the stereotypical expectations placed on men and women. We could use words like masculinity and femininity here. Masculinity and femininity clearly are spectrums. I have some masculine traits and some feminine traits but I'm still a man.
Everybody will have some varying combination of "gendered" traits, and I think it would be positive if we truly embraced greater expressions of femininity in men and masculinity in women. As long as we don't lose track of what men and women are in the process. Not sure if that clarifies things or not😅
"I have long understood that men and women all have various elements of attributes associated with masculinity and femininely without cause for more than two genders"
When you say "gender" here are you referring to the terms male and female or man and woman or masculine and feminine? Again, this is the kind linguistic precision we need to try to really pin down. Here's my framing:
There are two sexes. Male and female. The words for these sexes when referring to human beings are man and woman. You can't be anything other than a man or a woman because you can't be anything other than a male or a female.
But gender, at least as it's used in most of these discussions, refers to the stereotypical expectations placed on men and women. We could use words like masculinity and femininity here. Masculinity and femininity clearly are spectrums. I have some masculine traits and some feminine traits but I'm still a man.
Everybody will have some varying combination of "gendered" traits, and I think it would be positive if we truly embraced greater expressions of femininity in men and masculinity in women. As long as we don't lose track of what men and women are in the process. Not sure if that clarifies things or not😅