[culturehandy]

I pitched this in the Community Forum and it was well recieved.

This thread is all about the politics and cross cultural and societal views on gender.

I started thinking increasingly about gender when the media frenzy about Caster Semenya emerged. It is my opinion that the only reason people questioned Ms. Semenya's gender is because she appeared to be "masculine". That is, she looked masculine according to the ideas of society at large. Had she had softer, more "feminine" features, questions of her gender would not have come up.

So, what is gender? We know that there is sex, your biological sex, but gender is a social construct.

[stargazer]

If something is biologically not real, but believed by so many people, it becomes "real" in a very different, but equally powerful sense.

Dude, you just blew my mind. Seriously though, this topic is almost similar to the talk about reality vs. socially constructed realities in the philosophy thread. Whoa.