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Originally Posted by elphenor
according to who specifically?
social sciences began to recognize gender as separate from sex as early as the 1960s
although it's simply an observation and study of the way people have communicated for hundreds of years
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According to the followers of the most influential feminist thinker of the 20th century, who famously wrote in 1949 that "One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman" (she didn't use the word "gender", it was coined a bit later). Caused a huge furror at the time, though today it's seen as rather tame, I think. Anyway "the big idea" of mid 20th century feminism was to reject stereotypes of "femininity." Whereas the trans movement of today appears to take them arguably more seriously than they've ever been taken before.
It's not "simply an observation" lol it's a momentous philosophical revolution.
I have to know, why "hundreds of years"?