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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sex is not a social construction. Gender is.

Similarly, age is not a social construction, but youth/middle-age/old age etc. are. That's why we have sayings like "you're only as old as you feel" or "youth is wasted on the young" or "50 is the new 40" or "if you're 55 or better..." 
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[b]Well put. [/quote][/b]

It's not well put, because this distinction you make between gender and sex is silly.  The word gender has been used for decades and it's always been a polite euphemism for sex.  Back in the 80's no one used the word gender to decipher how masculine/feminine one considered themselves to be. [/quote]

They did, as a cursory Google on the topic would tell you. It may not have been common in your circles but it was in other circles and people were writing academic papers on it. The concept was widely acknowledged and taught by the time I entered college in the 90s.

Not that any of that matters, because "They didn't do it in the 80s" isn't an argument for or against anything. As PP said, you have a certain number of years of age, but what it means to be "old" or "young" - how you feel, what is expected of you, how people treat you, where you may go and what you may do, etc, - is entirely cultural. [/quote]

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