R. A. Briggs
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first heard Jun 2018
last heard Jun 2018
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Thanks.
It's great to be back.
Yeah, so there's quite a lot and there's a lot in your question that I want to sort of pull apart.
So one thing you said is that you were taught that boys have one kind of physiology and girls have another kind of physiology.
And a philosophical distinction that is common in feminist philosophy and pretty old is between sex on the one hand, which is the physiology, and gender on the other hand, which is the social role.
So when you classify people as men and women or boys and girls sort of in your day-to-day life,
You're often looking at cues other than the physiological cues you got told are associated with being male or female.
So being male or female is sort of usually the words people use for the sex category.
So that has to do with what your reproductive biology is like and being a man or a woman.
is sort of what people use for the gender categories, which have to do with what your social role is like.
And so sex and gender are sort of different because they play, first of all, different explanatory roles.
So if I want to know why somebody got pregnant, appealing to their sex characteristics is a good explanation.
If I want to know
why somebody got discriminated against at their job.
Their sex characteristics might not be like the first thing to point to.
So there's the distinction between sex on the one hand and gender on the other hand.
And I should add that like quite a lot gets lumped into the gender category that maybe could be pulled apart farther.
So like later in this interview, I'm going to be talking about work with my colleague, B.R.
George.
And B.R.
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