Comment by newen
5 years ago
Things are getting just a little bit ridiculous in America when you have people saying "women" is not a sex.
5 years ago
Things are getting just a little bit ridiculous in America when you have people saying "women" is not a sex.
male/female are biological descriptions. Men/Women are social constructs. A man can wear a woman's dress, but a male cannot be pregnant and give birth.
> Men/Women are social constructs.
What does it mean for these categories to be social constructs? What criteria makes one a man or a woman?
> What criteria makes one a man or a woman?
That's up to the society, hence their definitions as social constructs. For example, when you shop for dresses, do mostly men or women come up? Articles of clothing by themselves are not tied to the biology of a person's sex... meaning a vagina/penis is not required to wear a dress.
But most of society (as it is now) has deemed that woman are associated with dresses, while men are associated with suits. That image is now changing, although slowly, with trans and other non-binary genders.
An easy way to see this is to ask yourself if you think it's acceptable for men to wear dresses? If so, ask why we don't see more of that in the workplace.
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Not at all. It's a gender.
Can you elaborate on what makes that statement so ridiculous on it's face?
If you check a dictionary, the top definition for "woman" is typically something like "an adult female person" or "an adult female human." So the claim that woman/man is a totally different thing from male/female is pretty novel.
Indeed, I bring this up elsewhere, but there's been a lot of overlap of the medical and the social throughout history. That's changed recently. I don't see how that makes things "ridiculous" to quote GP.
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