The coming to power of the first elected African presedent, the first woman president in Chile and a debate going on over on a Shakespeare Message Board about men playing women's roles, has reactivated one of the bees in my bonnet.
A great deal of confused debate of the role of women comes, I believe (quite perversly some will say) from the misuse of the word sex.
Sex is a physical act, procreation/recreation.
To refer to a human being's sex, is going to reduce that being to a physical action: And define them by a very limited part of their activities (or their dangly bits).
Gender is the correct word for refering to a person's masculine or feminine identity. This is much more inclusive and incorperates aspects of personality which extend far beyond the physical.
More to be said on this I am sure.
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