Message from @.B
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so to reiterate my thoughts, sex defines biological differences of a species that store the method of reproducing a new lifeform of their species into 2 or more entities. this covers everything that empericly we can catagorize about them which are internally consistant. this means most physical traits and some psychological traits. gender has NO reason to define this, as theres no reason to have 2 words that mean the same thing. if you were to give gender a different definition scientificly, in my opinion it would need to define the social and psychological differences between individuals of different sexs
I kinda told you why "gender" was used
because in most languages "sex" is also a verb of the act
thats a weak arguement
in most languages the same word means different things
so to avoid confusion, "gender" was another way of refering to it that was clear to understand what you're asking
so gender so as to not pull an austin powers? *filling out form* "Sex? Yes please."
yes, I believe that is the main reason
not to mention sex is only an english word, in other languages the act of having sex is a different word
in my native language the same happens
in spanish too
in french too
gender: "late Middle English: from Old French gendre (modern genre ), based on Latin genus ‘birth, family, nation.’ The earliest meanings were ‘kind, sort, genus’ and ‘type or class of noun, etc."
I could do some research on it tbh
i dont think the chinese call the act of reproduction sex
consitering they have no latin roots
we are talking about the west
so not most languages
the Chinese have 5 different words using the same 3 letters
in the same order
kanjis are gendered
let's not dig a bigger hole into this
really i think only spanish has a word close to sex
sexo
what feminists are trying to do, removing gendered names of things can't even be done in most asian languages
italians use sesso
replace gender on all forms with "chromo" and have it be Y/X
portuguese too
well french use sexe
good luck trying to fix German if they are trying to make it "gender neutral"
even then though latin languages are also the most common languages to have a word with multiple definitions
and have those words transfer from verb to noun
also boats have genders apparently
but not sex
@Arch-Fiend is there no other language in which there is multiple words that mean the same thing?
yes there are
i think most languages do grenade
which is why "they use gender insted of sex because sex can also be a verb" is a weak argument
asking for the "sex" is also informal
its also not how science works