Quote from: Janet Lynn on April 11, 2009, 09:27:36 AM
Semantics. Words are words. Gender, Sex, brain sex, genital sex. Same things.
Saraloop and Julies W., your theories are saying the same things as what has been said. The words have just be in changed.
Gender = Brain Sex. Sex = Genital Sex. And my favorite.... Blending = Passing.
You say toe*may*toe, I say toe*ma*toe. It is still a vine ripen fruit.
I am not saying you wrong, just that you have changed the names to protect the innocent. 
It comes down to something is wrong. And we do what we must to fix the error. And we say what we have come to understand, to explain it. I don't think anyone is wrong in their theory.
Janet
I agree... because I feel like I can relate to you.
But there are others who have different concepts related to the words. Since this is the Transsexual section, perhaps more people would tend to be able to relate. Here is where I am coming from with this though.. As human beings.. when we are trying to understand other people.. we tend to fill in all the blanks (or missing information) with information we have gathered from our own experiences. There is an actual name for this process but I don't remember what it is. But we try to understand others based on information gained from our own experiences rather than gathering information from the individuals we are trying to know better.
For some people though.. gender is nothing more than social constructs. And some people actually believe that men and women are more alike than they are different. And go figure.. it tends to be "trans" people who are making these bold statements. Trans people who are trying to understand other people by filling in the blanks (or lack of information) with information they have gained from their own experiences.. their own lives.
It takes a special person to realize that we are not all the same. These people who are able to grasp that we are not all the same, these people who don't resort to filling in the blanks with themselves and who instead are able to learn about other people by asking questions.. by actually getting to know the other person.. they tend to occupy positions of power, management positions, positions as therapists and social workers and clergy. Most of us will never realize that other people are different. We observe others and we decide what they are feeling based upon our own experiences instead of inquiring, instead of getting to know others. It is why so many of us feel so alone so much of the time. No one is getting to know us, everyone assumes, no one is willing to reach out or listen or ask questions.