[lbo-talk] Sex and gender

Charles Brown cb31450 at gmail.com
Wed May 25 07:51:34 PDT 2016



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> Gender and sex are not the same thing , THOUGH gender is partially determined by sex. Sex is 100% genetically determined. Gender is cultural , symbolic , uniquely human. Humans are the only species with gender. Anyway, gender has existed since human origins 2.5 million years ago as the human way of organizing reproduction. Therefore gender is a totemism on natural sex in the Levi-Strauassian semiotic sense an analogy to the binary logic of sex. Levi-Straussian structures based on the nature /culture binary.


> But then gender generates third terms , whereas sex is locked in two. Gender is BOTH biologically and culturally determined ; both. Not only socially determined as Foucault and Butler et al. falsely claim.
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> The existence of born intersex individuals does not contradict this . Individuals , regardless of genitalia , can play only one of two roles in fertile sex acts: egg or sperm donator . Male and female are complementary opposites , two sides of one coin, the basic division of reproductive labor in sexually reproducing species.
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> And dats da trut
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