Peter Kreeft makes an interesting comment regarding sex vs gender.
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Originally Posted by BobCat's paraphrase
Gender used to be for hundreds of years, a quality of nouns (words) not persons. While sex was a quality of persons. Then after the '60's "sex" was redefined to something you do (having sex) instead of what you are. That's the first insult. Then we need to borrow a word to represent who you are, and then we borrow it from grammar. That is a second insult.
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I can see how this makes sense.
First insult: You are what you do. No, you are who you are.
Second insult: People are not things (words) - people are persons. Using a word that describes nouns to describe persons like calling a woman "handsome" or a man "pretty" - it does not fit and is insulting.
Even more reason I was right
