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Do you mean sex differences here? because gender differences or differences in gender roles is a mainly Leftist Idea, so it reads really weird if you mean that.
No clue what your talking about. Left seems to promote that there aren’t gender differences. Right promotes things like male masculinity and female staying at home etc.
why are you conflating sex with gender (Gender roles)?
Just proved my point.
Can you answer my question instead of saying meaningless pithy remarks?
Aren’t they the same thing
no, the bargain struct between progressives and everyone else was that sex was the biological categories of male and female and they were defined by biology; and gender or gender roles was agreed to be the social constructs of woman, man and what have you. Of course, as with anything else the progressives are beginning to renege on the deal (like with the abortion one), and there have been an encroachment of gender on sex, but it still hasn't spread.
Nobody on the right even understands that deal. Agree they are reneging on that. I’m fine with some people being transexual - biologically fuck up.
Gender is a social construct ? I’ve never had a female buy me dinner because she made more than me. Sounds fun. Doesn’t happen.
The deal is not exclusively between progs and republicans, but progs and everyone else including moderate democrats.
So? what is your point there?. I'm just telling you what it has been agreed, if you have a problem with it because females don't pay for your dates take it with them. You can begin by going to the wikipedia page referring with genders (not a perfect source of the definition but it's there at least) and fight it out with the editors there if you want.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender
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