It seems like you can just switch out the word “gender” for “category” or “cluster”, right? (and not just for the reason that you can switch out any word for any sound). I don’t think the word “gender” is adding anything here. If what you want is to create categories of people and give them names, sure, I guess, go for that. It’s nothing new, that’s what a stereotype is, that’s what “tomboy” or “Macho” or “Nerd” is. Calling it gender, with all the baggage that comes with that, just seems like a bad decision.
The only thing I can see about the word “gender” that might be useful is that, judging from how I see it used, someone can only have one gender. So if you want to talk about exclusive categories (like men and women, instead of say, tomboy and nerd) maybe gender works well, though I’d still rather some completely new word than to use a word with so much baggage.
It seems like you can just switch out the word “gender” for “category” or “cluster”, right? (and not just for the reason that you can switch out any word for any sound). I don’t think the word “gender” is adding anything here. If what you want is to create categories of people and give them names, sure, I guess, go for that. It’s nothing new, that’s what a stereotype is, that’s what “tomboy” or “Macho” or “Nerd” is. Calling it gender, with all the baggage that comes with that, just seems like a bad decision.
The only thing I can see about the word “gender” that might be useful is that, judging from how I see it used, someone can only have one gender. So if you want to talk about exclusive categories (like men and women, instead of say, tomboy and nerd) maybe gender works well, though I’d still rather some completely new word than to use a word with so much baggage.