ABSTRACT
Now that wasn't very hard, was it? Of course not. Where gender begins to get difficult is when we mix sex into the equation.
Gender and sex are two distinct phenomena working in any given culture as well as in and on our minds. Gender and sex obviously influence who we are and how we relate to others. The weird thing is that the concepts referred to by both words tend to get jammed into "sex, " as in
"What sex do you think that person across the street is?" or "I think we all need to take responsibility for safer sex in this day and
age. " The concept of gender is muddled enough without our confusing it with
something entirely different like biology. Sure, some people differentiate sex and gender by saying things like "My sex is male, but my gender is woman."
