FutureTheLeftWant wrote on Jun 7
th, 2022 at 2:27pm:
As usual, boomers confused between sex and gender....
Sex: noun
the male, female, or intersex division of a species, especially as differentiated with reference to the reproductive functions.
a male, female, or intersex label assigned to a person at birth.
the sum of the structural and functional differences by which male, female, and intersex organisms are distinguished, or the phenomena or behavior dependent on these differences:
plants that change sex depending on how much light they receive.
the sexual instinct or attraction drawing one organism toward another, or its manifestation in life and conduct:
choosing a life partner based on sex.
verb (used with object)
to ascertain the sex of or assign a sex to, especially newly-hatched chicks.
Verb Phrases
sex up, Informal.
to arouse sexually:
The only intent of that show was to sex up the audience.
to increase the appeal of; to make more interesting, attractive, or exciting:
I needed to sex up my résumé with bold fonts and snappy formatting.
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Gender: noun
either the male or female division of a species, especially as differentiated by social and cultural roles and behavior:
the feminine gender.
Compare sex1 (def. 1).
a similar category of human beings that is outside the male/female binary classification and is based on the individual's personal awareness or identity.See also third gender.
Grammar.
(in many languages) a set of classes that together include all nouns, membership in a particular class being shown by the form of the noun itself or by the form or choice of words that modify, replace, or otherwise refer to the noun, as, in English, the choice of he to replace the man, of she to replace the woman, of it to replace the table, of it or she to replace the ship. The number of genders in different languages varies from 2 to more than 20; often the classification correlates in part with sex or animateness. The most familiar sets of genders are of three classes (as masculine, feminine, and neuter in Latin and German) or of two (as common and neuter in Dutch, or masculine and feminine in French and Spanish).
one class of such a set.
such classes or sets collectively or in general.
membership of a word or grammatical form, or an inflectional form showing membership, in such a class.
Archaic. kind, sort, or class.
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What are you trying to differentiate here, Future?