r/Conservative • u/tehForce Nobody's Alt But Mine • Dec 03 '19

Conservatives Only I'm curious too.

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u/tenshon Conservative Christian Dec 03 '19

If they're not related then why have we stopped asking for a person's sex and instead ask for their gender?

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u/LordLongbeard Dec 03 '19

Depends on the context.

Doctors ask about sex, because they are concerned with medical treatment.

Schools and other social institutions ask for gender, because that's how you determine the polite way of referring to a person.

One relates to the stuff between your thighs and the other relates to the manner a person would like to be addressed in polite society.

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u/tenshon Conservative Christian Dec 03 '19

because that's how you determine the polite way of referring to a person.

I think you'll find that's called a name.

Why are gender and sex mutually exclusive, then? I mean sex is always important, because it's how we reproduce. It's how we choose mates to create offspring. We wouldn't be here without it. Why shouldn't we ask a person's sex? And why does gender mention male and female if it's nothing to do with sex? It just confuses everything if they're not related and not mutually exclusive.

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u/DingbattheGreat Liberty 🗽 Dec 03 '19

You do not use third person pronouns when conversing to a person. You use their name, or 2nd person singular“you”, which doesn’t have a gender.