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ackblom12:
Merrick, don't be a dick.
Also actually google yourself up the difference between Sex and Gender. You can do it yourself.
mtmerrick:
I'm being a dick for reading THE FUCKING DICTIONARY?
REALLY?
Valdís:
Dictonaries are dumb, by the way. It takes five percent of the public to be wrong about something for long enough and voilá - new definition. Also some words are in specific contexts used interchangeably, often with confusing results. For instance some forms will say "Gender: M/F?" and some forms will say "Sex: M/F?", but both can be asking about your legal gender rather than genitals or whatever. Bad habits die hard.
I say this coming from a country wherein the language doesn't include a split term for gender and it's said "Kön (Sex)" and "Socialt kön (Social Gender)". I have mixed feelings about that. On one hand it can complicate things to not have separate root concepts to speak about, but on the other hand you get into far less bullshit when dealing with trans* conditions as a matter of biology.
mtmerrick:
Not getting into gender issues here (if you hadn't gathered I agree with pretty much everyone here), but the definition.
Sex as meaning gender is actually an older (some might even say "more correct") definition of the word than sexy-times. It's not like it's some new-age definition or something. I'm not pulling from the urban dictionary here or anything.
I can't believe I'm getting shit for this >_<
Valdís:
Primo, we aren't referring to it as "Having sex", but rather the term meaning "The sexes" as distinct from Gender in English.
For that matter the number six is spelled sex in my language. Having sex is too. So one could say "They're definitions of the word in the dictionary!", but they're referring to different concepts.
Also words aren't static. Keeping Gender distinct as a concept has its uses and drawbacks, but they are different concepts. Therefore the continued use of Sex in some occasions where what they mean is Gender is pretty much just a lingering bad habit. When it stops lingering is when the dictionaries end up with an [Archaic] notation at the beginning. :-D
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