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Originally Posted by chryuop
Maybe in English. In other languages the word for sex and gender is the same...and by what kirakiraさん said it seems in Japanese too.
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I'd say that differentiating between sex and gender is a stylistic/situational thing for english. If I want to know whether someone is a male or female, I'll use the words interchangeably. If I'm in a psychology class discussing 'gender roles', I would agree that gender is a mental construct. It can be tricky business trying to differentiate them because their differences are really only apparent (or relevant) when they're used in combination with other words. Certainly 'gender roles' and 'sexual characteristics' are two very different sets of concepts. However, if you're just talking about 'sex' or 'gender', then I think differentiating between them is a nit-picky, stylistic difference more than anything else.