Posted by Ken Waldron
Re: I don't like JK Rowling but...... Archived Message
on June 7, 2020, 2:06 pm, in reply to "Re: I don't like JK Rowling but......"
'Woman' and 'man' are genders, which are cultural categories.
...'Male' and 'female' are biological realities...
Gender is from the root gen-"born-" It merely means the sex you are biologically born.
-That indeed confers an assumed social identity in any culture: c.f. also "gens" :family, tribe, but the two can't really be semantically divided as above.