Current Events > It is kinda ironic that gender was invented so feminists could be like men

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And still be considered biologically female.
Gender as it is used today didn't exist till the 70s when the feminist movement wanted separate the idea of roles and sex.

That is, just because you are female, doesn't mean you fit into this role was the idea. A female by sex could adopt a male gender role for example.

The irony is that this idea today is if a man acts with the roles of a female or a females acts with the roles of a man, perhaps they are actually the other sex.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender

Sexologist John Money introduced the terminological distinction between biological sex and gender as a role in 1955. Before his work, it was uncommon to use the word gender to refer to anything but grammatical categories.[1][2] However, Money's meaning of the word did not become widespread until the 1970s, when feminist theory embraced the concept of a distinction between biological sex and the social construct of gender. Today, the distinction is followed in some contexts, especially the social sciences[4][5] and documents written by the World Health Organization (WHO).[3]

In oher contexts, including some areas of the social sciences, gender includes sex or replaces it.[1][2] For instance, in non-human animal research, gender is commonly used to refer to the biological sex of the animals.[2] This change in the meaning of gender can be traced to the 1980s. In 1993, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) started to use gender instead of sex.[6] Later, in 2011, the FDA reversed its position and began using sex as the biological classification and gender as "a person's self representation as male or female, or how that person is responded to by social institutions based on the individual's gender presentation."[7]

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The modern academic sense of the word, in the context of social roles of men and women, dates at least back to 1945,[14] and was popularized and developed by the feminist movement from the 1970s onwards (see Feminism theory and gender studies below), which theorizes that human nature is essentially epicene and social distinctions based on sex are arbitrarily constructed. In this context, matters pertaining to this theoretical process of social construction were labelled matters of gender.

By feminist theory a young 5 year old wanting to wear dresses shouldn't be considered a girl. Human nature is epicene means wearing a dress isn't really feminine and that would be true as men used to wear long robes. A boy can be 100% a boy and love stereotypically "girly" things as society would view it.

Pretty sure today any 5 year old wanting to wear dresses is asked by parents and school if they are actually a girl.

That is kinda an interesting thing to see how the terminology flipped and did a 180 degree turn.
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