kevindk

the title and the OP reminds me the very first topic in our Southeast Asian Study lecture - Gender and Sex, a link to identity and the mentioned topic had been discussed within Thai culture- during my school days. It was long time ago but the concept is still with me, though I doubt it's rather rusty now. In fact, they tried to make up or consolidate a comprehensive understanding on one's IDENTITY which obviously comprised of various structural components (social norm, geography even biography etc). Having said that, Gender and sex were proposed to be differentiated clearly when one is making/drawing/hypothesizing an identity. Simply, each social norms has different categories/partitions for SEX and GENDER too. So on and so on, it would take a never-ending serious talk and we can keep this up to a complicated study, say within Thai culture/social context.

By the way, from the response, I would say not many people here like this intellectual topic (?). Personally, I think regular members prefer a more casual (yet practical) topic. It's nothing wrong as people (including myself) likes to visit favorite place where I can talk comfortably, with least effort of thinking too much about myself vs. other big things outside there. JT, you may create your group and further discuss your "insightful" idea. Would that way attract more constructive replies?

Cheers,
Kevin

PS: BTW, I'm not an English-native speaker thus I found it ridiculous when someone tried to catch others' posts on grammatical/spelling errors. Likewise this case, why bother if you can understand what I tried (hard) to say? is that language created to let people communicate?