The Difference Between Sex and Gender

Sex is a body plan designed by evolution to support either the male or female role in reproduction. So when did gender come from that? The word used to mean just a grammatical thing, like gender was in grammar,. And then it got sort of co-opted into meaning these social roles and the way we're socialized into being masculine or feminine. But this is a co-option by... By feminists. They were trying to separate out the idea that a woman had to be feminine. There's an awful lot of truth to that. Some things about gender are quite arbitrary. I would say they're not at all divorced. No, some of them are. You know, if you