Just read this at a blog and dont understand it...

[alfa147x]

I was over at www.stuckincustoms.com

and found this

Gender: Male (actually, the word should be sex, not gender, as gender refers to writing. This is a pet peeve of mine.)

what does he mean? gender refers to writing ?

 

[Ruptga]

I have no idea what writing has to do with anything, but some get their undies in a wad because they don't want to infringe upon those that are, for example, physically male, but believe themselves to be mentally female. In simple terms, it's PC talk for I don't want to exclude people with sex changes.

 

[yankeesfan]

Gender is like masculine and feminine forms of words or names. It makes more sense when you study a different language like spanish.

I hope I'm not talking out of my ass.

 

[alfa147x]

Originally posted by: yankeesfan
Gender is like masculine and feminine forms of words or names. It makes more sense when you study a different language like spanish.

I hope I'm not talking out of my ass.

Oh ah im talking german and kinda understand it...

 

[Saint Michael]

Seeing as how gender has referred to sex for about 40 years I don't see what he's complaining about, unless he's old... in which case he complains about everything and should be ignored.

 

[Sumguy]

Originally posted by: yankeesfan
Gender is like masculine and feminine forms of words or names. It makes more sense when you study a different language like spanish.

I hope I'm not talking out of my ass.

That might be it. Some languages objects are given a sex.

For example, LA ordinateur refers to a computer as feminine

LE auto refers to a car as masculine.

On a completely unrelated note, I forgot most of the gender assignments, and while I was still taking my french courses I just refered to everything as masculine near the end of the year.

 

[Chaotic42]

http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/gender

 

[alfa147x]

Originally posted by: Saint Michael
Seeing as how gender has referred to sex for about 40 years I don't see what he's complaining about, unless he's old... in which case he complains about everything and should be ignored.

He doesnt seem too old
http://stuckincustoms.com/about-me/

 

[GregGreen]

Sex is biological (you are a male because you have XY and male genitals)
Gender is socially constructed (you act like a man because you have been socialized that way)

 

[pulse8]

Main Entry:
1gen·der Listen to the pronunciation of 1gender
Pronunciation:
\'jen-d?r\
Function:
noun
Etymology:
Middle English gendre, from Anglo-French genre, gendre, from Latin gener-, genus birth, race, kind, gender ? more at kin
Date:
14th century

1 a: a subclass within a grammatical class (as noun, pronoun, adjective, or verb) of a language that is partly arbitrary but also partly based on distinguishable characteristics (as shape, social rank, manner of existence, or sex) and that determines agreement with and selection of other words or grammatical forms b: membership of a word or a grammatical form in such a subclass c: an inflectional form showing membership in such a subclass

2 a: sex <the feminine gender> b: the behavioral, cultural, or psychological traits typically associated with one sex

 

[clamum]

Originally posted by: Chaotic42
http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/gender

Heh yep that's what I was gonna post. Looks like it can be used for both (biological difference and cultural differences).

 

[amdhunter]

He probably doesn't get enough gender himself...