Please or to access all these features

AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

AIBU to say no one can define female gender clearly

54 replies

cerilere · 11/09/2026 10:38

AIBU to think that no body has ever been able to explain what female gender is.
I recently heard a guy say, 'if a guy throws a ball badly (he did an impression of a 2 year throwing a ball), then that's female gender.'

If sex and gender are different things, then what is female gender.

Please only respond with a definition of female gender that does not rely on regressive stereotypes.

YABU = here’s a definition
YANBU = No one has ever given a definition without using sexist stereotypes.

OP posts:
senua · 11/09/2026 10:45

Please only respond with a definition of female gender that does not rely on regressive stereotypes.
But gender is a stereotype. That I'd hoped that we'd moved on from. It is inherently regressive.

LarryForPrimeMinister · 11/09/2026 10:45

Gender isn't real it's a made up construct.

cerilere · 11/09/2026 10:43

To the poster who voted YABU please define female gender, thanks.

OP posts:
KilkennyCats · 11/09/2026 10:41

Gender is a made up construct. There’s the Male and Female sexes, and you can behave as you please within that, it’s nothing to do with “gender”.

Swipe left for the next trending thread