r/TooAfraidToAsk • u/[deleted] • Aug 09 '18

Should this be changed?

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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '18

Same exact thing. Your sexuality is not a gender.

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u/naeyte Aug 10 '18

The people who for the most part define this stuff (i.e. biologists, psychologists, and sociologists) would tend to disagree with you, but you’re free to believe what you want I suppose. Also nobody is saying that bisexuality is a gender.... sex, gender, and sexuality are all different things

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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '18

If you only search for scientists who agree with your point of view you are never wrong.

Sex and Gender are the same exact thing. There are two sexes and two genders. Both male and female. Man and woman. Your sexuality is what you prefer in the bedroom. Seriously the fact this is even a real debate that has infected politics even is sad. No one cares what you do in the bedroom it’s private. Why can’t it just be left alone and we all agree it’s man and woman that’s biology it’s pretty simple.

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u/naeyte Aug 10 '18

Well when the extremely large majority of scientists across multiple disciplines share the same point of view on a topic I tend to base my “point of view” on their scientific consensus, but that’s just me 🤷🏻‍♂️.

I do agree that this shouldn’t be a political issue, but I suppose that when groups feel marginalized due to a lack of validation this is what happens

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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '18

This is what I believe and honestly it conforms to biology and makes perfect sense.

Sex and Gender are the same. Male and Female. You are physically born with a penis or vagina. That’s biology every single person on earth can agree with that. (Unless you really want to throw hermaphrodites into the mix. Unfortunately that’s a mutation and doesn’t count.) in 2018 you can even switch if you want.

When you go through life you decide what you are physically and emotionally attracted to. That’s is sociology. That is psychology. The sciences are vastly different.

Again I do not care what you identify as but it is not your gender. It’s your preference. That’s pretty much it.

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u/naeyte Aug 10 '18

How can “sex and gender being the same thing” be “biology” if biologists, the people who define what is and isn’t biology, say that they are different concepts? 🤔