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E-Creativity
11-03-03, 12:54 AM
What is the difference between gender and sex

Thanks :)

Wanderer
11-03-03, 02:11 AM
I prefer sex.

Najah
11-03-03, 05:51 AM
Gender: socially and culturaly constricted aspect of diffrencess between women and men.
*two genders: masculare and femenine.

Sex: What we physically are (Byologicaly determind)
*two sexes: Male - Female...


P.S. Hope that i answered it correctly!

Arabian Princess
11-03-03, 12:17 PM
YUP najah is right!!

couldnt explain it better!

FaHaD
11-03-03, 04:34 PM
well najah, thought they are the other way around.. don't know really

but i prefer using teh word sex instead of gender

E-Creativity
14-03-03, 03:20 PM
I'm no sure I got it:

Gender is bad because it asserts the unfair social differences between men and women. wjile sex is a discrptive word about the biological traits?

is that what it means?

Thanks :)

Najah
28-03-03, 08:52 PM
sooory E-creativity..

Yess that what it means E.
And Fahad no my answer is right, i double checked it.

Dr N
28-03-03, 09:38 PM
I think that what najah has said is true.....
Though to me, it doesn't make much difference what word I use, so why do some poeple think that the word gender would show a difference between men and women? There IS a difference, nothing bad about that!

Arabian Princess
29-03-03, 10:02 AM
Gender is not bad .. its the word used when the social aspects of the diffrences between men and women occur.

DeSerTDesTroYeR
30-03-03, 12:41 AM
hmm...i kinda see them as representing the same meaning....as different categories..of human being and thats men & women...

I would presonally use the word gender....:)

Seniora
30-03-03, 04:37 PM
the two words are closely related, where and when u use them, really is a matter of preference i think. i would prefer to use gender when i am relating to clothes, grammer, or animals. and would like to use "sex" when it comes relating things that concern human beings, as in their behaviour and rights,

E-Creativity
01-04-03, 09:52 PM
Ok, now I got it :

Gender is a word that is used by those who think that there is no difference between men and women, the only difference are social stereotypes.

Am I right ?

Thanks :)