Before Political Correctness destroyed language in favor of the New Speak, "gender" was a gammatical term. As explained to me years ago: "Words have gender, people have sex."
CRB >Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 08:26:22 -0400 >From: "Steve Desjardins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >I've been told by some of my social scientist friends that the correct >term is "sex", i.e., the answer to "are you amle or female?". >Evidently >sex is a pure physical discitnction whereas gender refers to the >psychological, behavioral, or cutltural traits associated with the >sexes, so that then latter is a continuous and not a binary variable. >At least this was the answer I got when I suggested we use the word >"gender" on a survey. If memory serves, I made some sophomoric >joke as a reply. ;-) > > >Steven Desjardins
