On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Nicole Zimmerman wrote:
> It seemed pretty legit, discussing the genetics of the X and Y
> chromosomes that make us the physical gender we are ("mental" or
> psychological gender determined differently) having been around for much
> longer than was first assumed.
A terminology suggestion: "gender" is usually acknowledged to be a social
construction, whereas "sex" is usually the word for anatomy. So, for
example, someone may have a "male" sex, but have the gender "man".
Note that this isn't a one-to-one mapping; for the sex "male", you could
have innumerable genders ("fratboy", "leatherfag", "boygeek", "drag
queen", "neuter", to name a few).
Talking about gender and sex as non-binary conditions seems useful to
me--- that's why i suggest this. I think that a lot of the problems geeks
face could be talked about in terms of gender.
For example: Male geeks often face pressure because they aren't [usually]
the "jock-guy" gender, and female geeks get pressure because they aren't
[usually] the "cheerleader" gender.
Does that make sense to anyone else?
> Additionally, the history channel is showing something on the "history
> of sex" all week long. It should be interesting to see how they deal
> with issues of non-physical gender (i.e. I may physically be male, but I
> know I am female type gender issues).
hmm. what times do those air?
srl
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