The Guys' Rules

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  • pwittek10
    pwittek10 Posts: 723 Member
    I need this list 30 years ago!
    Better late than never
    Thanks for the insight!
  • VorJoshigan
    VorJoshigan Posts: 1,106 Member
    How can I give this to my wife without giving it to my wife?
    If you give this to your wife, you might not get it from you wife for a while.

    ETA: How many times can the same joke be made? Many times many.
  • CorvusCorax77
    CorvusCorax77 Posts: 2,536 Member
    Gender is a social construct.

    I thought it was a genetic code construct.

    well, if we must talk genetics:

    http://www.isna.org/faq/frequency

    But still, gender is a societal construct, not a biological one. Gender refers the ideas we associate with masculie and feminine, and is not the same as being male or female. You may find it easier if you think of "gender expression" or "gender identification" which, in the end, has little to nothing to do wtih what your plumbing is.

    Jamie Lee Curtis, biological sex: intersex. Gender: female.

    Interesting, isn't it?
  • trojanbb
    trojanbb Posts: 1,297 Member
    Gender is a social construct.

    I thought it was a genetic code construct.

    well, if we must talk genetics:

    http://www.isna.org/faq/frequency

    But still, gender is a societal construct, not a biological one. Gender refers the ideas we associate with masculie and feminine, and is not the same as being male or female. You may find it easier if you think of "gender expression" or "gender identification" which, in the end, has little to nothing to do wtih what your plumbing is.

    Jamie Lee Curtis, biological sex: intersex. Gender: female.

    Interesting, isn't it?

    That's only true when being discussed within the realm of some social sciences and only then it has only happened in the past 50 years. Feminism. For a number of fields, gender = sex.
  • CorvusCorax77
    CorvusCorax77 Posts: 2,536 Member
    Gender is a social construct.

    I thought it was a genetic code construct.

    well, if we must talk genetics:

    http://www.isna.org/faq/frequency

    But still, gender is a societal construct, not a biological one. Gender refers the ideas we associate with masculie and feminine, and is not the same as being male or female. You may find it easier if you think of "gender expression" or "gender identification" which, in the end, has little to nothing to do wtih what your plumbing is.

    Jamie Lee Curtis, biological sex: intersex. Gender: female.

    Interesting, isn't it?

    That's only true when being discussed within the realm of some social sciences and only then it has only happened in the past 50 years. Feminism. For a number of fields, gender = sex.

    "Fields" is your way of saying "common colloqualism." It is possible to change the meaning of words over time, as we collectively graps more progressive concepts. Take for example the word "man" used to only mean "white heterosexual land-owning free man" but oh my how the times have changed!
  • trojanbb
    trojanbb Posts: 1,297 Member
    Gender is a social construct.

    I thought it was a genetic code construct.

    well, if we must talk genetics:

    http://www.isna.org/faq/frequency

    But still, gender is a societal construct, not a biological one. Gender refers the ideas we associate with masculie and feminine, and is not the same as being male or female. You may find it easier if you think of "gender expression" or "gender identification" which, in the end, has little to nothing to do wtih what your plumbing is.

    Jamie Lee Curtis, biological sex: intersex. Gender: female.

    Interesting, isn't it?

    That's only true when being discussed within the realm of some social sciences and only then it has only happened in the past 50 years. Feminism. For a number of fields, gender = sex.

    "Fields" is your way of saying "common colloqualism." It is possible to change the meaning of words over time, as we collectively graps more progressive concepts. Take for example the word "man" used to only mean "white heterosexual land-owning free man" but oh my how the times have changed!

    No actually. Not the same. go look up the history of the word. Its strict meaning is still biological in many fields. Not colloqualism. your usage is actually more colloquial, technically.
  • CorvusCorax77
    CorvusCorax77 Posts: 2,536 Member
    http://www.who.int/gender/whatisgender/en/


    I mean WHO gets it, why can't you?
  • CorvusCorax77
    CorvusCorax77 Posts: 2,536 Member
    Oh. Wait. WHO might be some crazy feminist group. DAMN!!!

    note the sarcasm, please.
  • trojanbb
    trojanbb Posts: 1,297 Member
    http://www.who.int/gender/whatisgender/en/


    I mean WHO gets it, why can't you?

    and the FDA uses gender to mean sex. /shrug
  • CorvusCorax77
    CorvusCorax77 Posts: 2,536 Member
    http://www.who.int/gender/whatisgender/en/


    I mean WHO gets it, why can't you?

    and the FDA uses gender to mean sex. /shrug

    FDA says "Gender refers to a difference between men and women that occurs due to cultural or social variations in a particular sex. As it will often not be clear whether an observed difference in safety or efficacy is due to gender or sex, the FDA has used the terms interchangeably to describe any difference-- cultural or social, genetic or hormonal-- between males and females."

    Meaning they recognize that gender and sex aren't the same, but for purposes of their work they use the terms interchangeably.


    http://www.fda.gov/ScienceResearch/SpecialTopics/WomensHealthResearch/ucm131182.htm
  • AllTehBeers
    AllTehBeers Posts: 5,030 Member
    tl;dr

    Anyone got some Doritos?

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