> climate change denial
what about race and gender denial?
what about race and gender denial?
Gender is an interesting word as the meaning of it has changed over a period of time. The meanings attributed to the word depend upon many things about the people using it. For all intents and purposes, it should be dropped from the English language as it has become a word of inherent conflict. There is no specific and universally accepted meaning that can be used in general discussion.
In some respects, similar problems arise with the word "race".
Gender as a term that relates to people, and not words (as in the sense of the gender of a noun in Latin-family languages), has been pretty well defined since it was introduced in the 1950s--specifically as a way to differentiate between biological sex (male, female, intersex, etc.) and the social roles that people play that may or may not actually be related to biological sex (men/women/boy/girl/etc.). It's always been quite well defined, although some people feel that it either doesn't make sense to differentiate between biological sex and gender (e.x. because, perhaps, they believe that social gender roles are innate conditions of biological sex).
Your disagreement over the meaning of the word "gender" just highlights the accuracy of my "position".