Don't you guys agree Gender is more of a social contruct? Other thing I like to point I don't agree with how sites such as this one pressure you into selecting a gender when you sign up.
There is no gender. Yes there is sex (female, male, etc.) according to Biology but it's rediculous to think that one can "identify" as a single sex. We are all the same, the only differences between men and women are physical. All humans are incredibly different mentally, therefore they should not fit into two arbitrary groups like these one and neither are we physically tied to any one culture’s version of gender roles.
What are your thoughts?
firstly, even though I disagree, the definitions of terms can be easily confusing, and supposing I have got the position you are arguing from correct, they aren't even consistently used. You talk of sex being something that can be identified with (usually it is gender). But that is a technicality. I don't see much difference between sex and gender (I view them as two related sides of the coin in generality).
Male, female are genders, just though to add. Generally speaking just as there are only two sexes, it is expected the corresponding mental state of the brain (call it gender) would be likewise; so the idea of binary gender is perfectly sound in reasoning.
In most cases, people are of a single sex, genetically and biologically. The occurrence of intersex people is not a generality or a normality (what I mean is most people are not intersex), does not suppose the rest of the race, is "stupid" to identify with a particular sex, in fact it makes sense, and apart from the latest pushes for instance for organisations of that nature (as well as through programs such as Safe Schools), it is the generally accepted historically, scientifically and to some measure multi-culturally, as being normative and hence not ridiculous.
Don't you guys agree Gender is more of a social contruct?
Hardly, it is more so a mental construct that corresponds to the physical condition; if it is a construct at all.
Other thing I like to point I don't agree with how sites such as this one pressure you into selecting a gender when you sign up.
Clearly your choice on the left hand panel, indicates that there isn't a pressure to choose a particular gender.
yes there is, unless your definition is completely different.
Yes there is sex (female, male, etc.) according to Biology but it's ridiculous (sic) to think that one can "identify" as a single sex.
Most people have very little issue with "identify" with the "sex" they are, genetically. Hardly a ridiculuous thing. I thought you distinguished between gender and sex anyway, and that your issue would be with the former.
We are all the same, the only differences between men and women are physical.
And mental which is related, but not the same to the physical.
All humans are incredibly different mentally, therefore they should not fit into two arbitrary groups like these one and neither are we physically tied to any one culture’s version of gender roles.
The genders of "male" and "female" are hardly arbitrary, in fact they are accepted generally, because of their relationship to the biological sex. again there are intersex people and all that, but it is hardly arbitrary.
Science itself (and even you aren't into science) classifies and names things based on phenomena, the characteristics of personality and mental state influenced by genetic and biological factors associated with "sex" (as in man/woman)
Gender roles are a separate issue of discussion and do vary for culture to culture, but these are not the same as gender itself.
