I for one groaned. Science needs a term for the class which male and female belong to—and “sex” doesn’t cut it—it is already too overloaded. So, we should use the next best word, “gender” for that—and that’s what social scientists actually do. Socially-constructed conceptions of sexuality seem to be way down on the list of terminology priorities to me.
Socially-constructed conceptions of sexuality seem to be way down on the list of terminology priorities to me.
I think that anything that’s central to the self-identify of most humans, and some humans so much that they go through drastic difficulty to express it, gets to claim some priority.
Re: The gender/sex distinction
I for one groaned. Science needs a term for the class which male and female belong to—and “sex” doesn’t cut it—it is already too overloaded. So, we should use the next best word, “gender” for that—and that’s what social scientists actually do. Socially-constructed conceptions of sexuality seem to be way down on the list of terminology priorities to me.
I think that anything that’s central to the self-identify of most humans, and some humans so much that they go through drastic difficulty to express it, gets to claim some priority.