I think I'd enjoy philosophy more if it wasn't so much arguing over arbitrary word definitions

but you are an internet troll

Gender is a word and when different people use the word to mean different things they somehow think this is a reasonable basis to get angry at eachother

Quote from: Dustin xLilD on January 06, 2015, 02:08:44 AM

Quote from: Slade on January 06, 2015, 02:05:03 AM

Gender is just a concept, Dustin.

Gender is a set of personality traits: masculinity and femininity. Your DNA alters your personality with different compounds to change your behavior. You cannot have a gender unless there is sex to base itself off of. Obviously there are going to be oddities, for the most part your genetics are what cause the relation of males being masculine and females being feminine. There is some social construct to gender, but it is based off DNA.

Hm. Perhaps I gave you less credit then. But then how could you explain a masculine female and a feminine male?

Butch and fags

Quote from: Slade on January 06, 2015, 02:11:15 AM

Quote from: Dustin xLilD on January 06, 2015, 02:08:44 AM

Quote from: Slade on January 06, 2015, 02:05:03 AM

Gender is just a concept, Dustin.

Gender is a set of personality traits: masculinity and femininity. Your DNA alters your personality with different compounds to change your behavior. You cannot have a gender unless there is sex to base itself off of. Obviously there are going to be oddities, for the most part your genetics are what cause the relation of males being masculine and females being feminine. There is some social construct to gender, but it is based off DNA.

Hm. Perhaps I gave you less credit then. But then how could you explain a masculine female and a feminine male?

A very large percentage of males aren't masculine and a very large percentage of females aren't feminine, and only a small percentage of those actually feel to be in the wrong body. Gender is a set of personality traits but it does not encompass all personality traits. And as humans grow more conscious and intelligent, people are going to increasingly deviate from that norm which can explain transgenderism. It's unlikely that there is any evolutionary benefit to having members of a species want to be the other sex, I believe most of it is environmental. You can argue over how much of gender is genetic and how much is social but it's undeniably both.

Hm. You have a valid point.