The_Walrus wrote:
Gender is not sex. Gender usually correlates with sex, but not always.
Despite that, I feel this is quite frivolous. Some of the terms used were demeaning for any individual, however. A better case would be made based around being called "little lady" and such.
True, I should probably be using the term sex rather than gender for my last post and probably a couple before. Apparently gender is more of a social construct, while sex refers to the physical characteristics related to gender. Still kind of confusing since so many including me thought they referred to the same thing.
And I agree with the last bit, don't think it would be fair to sue someone because they accidently slip up and say he/she in a conversation...but the little lady remark does seem particularly condescending.
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