Hi everybody, this is a short video on the difference between sex and gender. I wanted to
Make this little video to clarify what the difference between those two topics are and so that you understand gender is the focus primarily
the focus of this class and
Also because I wanted to talk to you a little bit about fact versus opinion. I think it's ties in really well here. So,
so if we're talking about facts,
Sex is a biological
Concept. Your sex is determined-
It's basically it's male/female and then there's some other, like intersex, and some other categories as well
And it's determined by your biology, by chromosomes, by anatomy,y by your DNA,
By hormones, all kinds of different things.
And if you want to know more about that, you need to look it up online or go talk to a geneticist or something
Biologists because I'm not actually an expert in biological
DNA and because I'm not a biologist.
But it's... it's... we make it seem like it's really straightforward that
It's just male or female but hopefully by doing the reading this week you learned that there's a lot of people who aren't
Their genetics they're not
Exclusively male or female they might be intersex and there's a lot of variations of that as well.
So sex is a biological concept, right? That's a fact. And
that's just kind of - that's the definition of that word and then gender is a little different and
sometimes people want to confuse these two, so gender is a social construct, it has to do with
expression and
It's something you were learned or that you learned rather or that you were taught
by your family or your peers and your culture and all that, so it's a set of expectations and
you may or may not fit really super nicely into the set of expectations. And
It's something that is often considered to be a performance and it might even change for some people over time.
So it's a social construct, right, gender is something that you were trained into performing, a way of acting. Like, there's no real reason
Why women why we have this notion that women should wear skirts. I mean, obviously in 2018 that's
like not it any more. You still don't see very many men wearing skirts
so there's no like logical reason why really, like hey only wearing a skirt is super feminine thing to do, but
It's not a super masculine thing to do. It's just a
cultural concept that we came up to and if you go to a different culture
that doesn't apply in every culture, like go to Scotland, because they'll be guys wearing kilts, which are basically skirts, and
Trust me, and they find that to be highly masculine
so it's really cultural and it might vary depending on what culture you're in. So gender is a social construct and
The reason why I want you to get that that's like the definition of the word right? It's not an opinion.
you might have an opinion about
Gender as a social construct and what is or is not
Expected but the actual definition of the word is that it's a social construct
So I think it's really important that we understand the difference between the two and then we're gonna be talking mostly about gender in this
Class. The last thing I wanted to say is that gender does
Exist, we tend to talk about it in
Binaries like masculine and feminine, but there is a whole bunch of room
I mean you could call it a spectrum or a scale or a big messy graph
I mean it's kind of to you what helps you understand it the best but
There's so many different things out there besides just masculine and feminine and ranges degrees, like you could be
Androgynous person might be androgynous. So they express
multiple - they express some qualities of masculine
masculinity and some qualities of femininity or maybe they don't have a particular gender presentation at all and
That could be a way to express androgyny as well. So there's a lot of room in the middle and in fact
If you listen to the podcast from this week that I assigned
they talk about how sex is actually not as binary as most of us were taught to think about it either and
then it's not quite as simple as what we were talked about the taught to believe either so
it was super interesting and I find that that pod cast is really interesting because
It hints at some things about this whole concept that there's only masculine are only male and only female when in fact it turns out
genetically
Factually speaking, That is not true. So like this whole notion that we were talking when we're at sixth grade
It turns out that was kind of a lie that people
Sold you to help you understand what was going on and maybe even to help them understand what was going on frankly.
Because just biologically speaking
There's more than male and female
There's a lot of different variations. So it doesn't surprise me that if I'm talking about the social construct of gender
I'm gonna find there's more than masculine and feminine
and that there's a variety of
Presentations. The last thing that I want to note with this video you might have noticed. I've been talking about male-female masculine feminine.
Please know that if we're talking about sex the terms
We normally use our male and female and then intersexed or there's like a there's some variety in there, too
But typically it's male female intersex. Like I always kind of feel bad because intersex is like
this term to
accommodate a whole host of different ranges of
genetic conditions and I honestly that is a
Geneticist job to know that and so I only know like this much and I'm sure it's huge
in fact
There's probably not all that people who know everything that there is to know. They they couldn't because we don't have that all that research.
But also some some male and female tend to argues those are the biological concepts with sex. In this class
we're gonna focus on masculine and feminine which are the way of describing social constructs and
performative
ways that we perform gender. So they are slightly different words and we'll try not to confuse them together too much because I think it's
important we talk about
We use the right terminology.
It sounds a really important message
About the subject matter, so gender that's masculine feminine and then everything in between androgynous all that stuff so lots of different
words, but we're gonna
Specifically focus on gender in this class. Okay. I hope that helps you understand the difference between the two concepts
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