Expression, Role, and Identity: Gender
Filed by: Antonia D'orsay
December 16, 2009 11:00 AM
http://www.bilerico.com/2009/12/expression_role_and_identity_gender.phpAs promised, I will now tackle the concept of gender.
Previously, I talked about What is Trans. Then I talked about What is Sex -
between the legs it was, and now we come to the between the ears part.
Sex was easy compared to this one. But this is the one that people really have the hardest time with, as it difficult to separate sex from gender in the mind when the two often seem to flow in and through each other. You can't really talk about one without talking about the other.
First off, Gender is not really a singular thing. It is a mélange of elements and pieces and parts and it is deeply embedded into the culture it is part of. So much so that my discussion here of gender is by necessity limited to English-speaking Western societies.
