----- Original Message -----
From: "Andreas Johansson" <andjo@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 3:36 PM
Subject: Re: OT: [Let_It_Be_Forever_Islam] THE WORLD OF THE JINN
> Quoting Stone Gordonssen <stonegordonssen@...>:
>
> > > > In fact, one could argue that there is a stronger case for
> > > > classifying people by race than there is on the basis of gender.
> > >
> > >I find this somewhat amusing, since undoubtly the _practical_
consequences
> > >of
> > >your biological sex/gender is greater than those of your race.
> >
> > "sex" is biological - humans have 2; "gender" is a social convention -
> > humans have from 2 to 7, depending on the culture.
>
> I'm aware of this distinction, but see it violated so often that I cannot
be
> bothered to uphold it consistently. I'm generally all for maintaining
> distinctions, but this particular fight does seem pretty lost to me
(outside
> scholarly litterature).
>
> However, what I said above was intended to be parsed as [biological sex]/
> [gender], so in this case you cannot blame me for anything worse than
being
> ambiguous.
>
> That humans have two biological sexes is debatable; chromosomal and
anatomical
> gender doesn't map quite one-to-one for instance.
Two *functional* sexes.