Sentences with phrase «gender distinctions which»

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We are made male and female, man and woman, and attempts to blur distinctions under the seemingly innocuous term «gender» are really attempts to assert that sex should be seen as an autonomous human activity, something which has noother meaning than what the individual wishes to bestow upon it.

This rejection of nature is manifest in the now orthodox distinction between sex, which is «merely biological,» and gender, defined as a construct either of oppressive social norms or of the free, self - defining subject — one often finds protagonists of this revolution oscillating back and forth between those polar extremes.

Some segments of society have expressed a fear that these recent developments mark the «death of gender» — in which the distinctions between men and women will simply vanish.

My explanation is that he managed to be so far outside the accepted New York School macho man stereotype that he made no gender distinctions, just intellectual and moral distinctions, which is one reason I was drawn to his writing and personality.

The fact that we found a diverging gendered pattern in comparison with the study of Busse et al. (2010), who found that for girls, but not for boys, more frequent sexual communication with friends was associated with perceiving more pressure (i.e., a combination of descriptive and injunctive norms) to have sex, emphasizes the importance of making a distinction between the different types of sexual peer norms, as well as between how often youths talk about sexuality - related topics with their friends, and the way in which they talk about such topics (i.e., how normatively or deviantly).