So it's just a convention, nothing to do with correct or incorrect application
of the current definition?
Peter Shute
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
> On Behalf Of
> Merrilyn Serong
> Sent: Tuesday, 22 January 2013 11:20 AM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] sex, not gender
>
> In biology, the correct term to describe the sex of an animal
> is 'sex'.
> 'Gender' is not used.
> In particular, the term 'sex' is used in sexual dimorphism,
> sex characteristics, sex chromosomes, etc.
> Cheers,
> Merrilyn (wearing my biologist hat)
>
> On 22/01/2013 10:41 AM, wrote:
> > That is no longer true, at least in the U.S. While I was
> taught that
> > words have gender, people have sex, the advent of gender
> studies at universities
> > (they couldn't really call it sex studies) and increasing popular
> > use of gender has made it a proper usage , and it is now
> accepted in
> > the major dictionaries.
> >
> > Eric Jeffrey
> > Falls Church, VA 22043
> >
> >
> >
> > In a message dated 1/21/2013 6:36:16 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> > writes:
> >
> > Good explanation here:
> >
> > http://www.med.monash.edu.au/gendermed/sexandgender.html
> >
> > Ian
> >
> > On 22/01/2013 9:55 AM, Peter Shute wrote:
> >> How come?
> >>
> >> Peter Shute
> >>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From:
> >>> On Behalf Of
> >>> Jonny Schoenjahn
> >>> Sent: Sunday, 13 January 2013 6:35 PM
> >>> To: Birding-Aus
> >>> Subject: [Birding-Aus] sex, not gender
> >>>
> >>> Hi Denise,
> >>>
> >>> you were referring to the sex of those Accipiters, not
> their gender.
> >>> Cutting a sociolinguistic explanation short: as fas as
> ornithology
> >>> is concerned, birds have a sex, but no gender.
> >>>
> >>> Cheers,
> >>> Jonny
> >>>
> >>> Jonny Schoenjahn
> >>> Perth WA
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Denise wrote on 12 January 2013:
> >>> "In the Top End size range for male Brown Goshawk is
> 33-42 cm while
> >>> for Collared Sparrowhawk it's 30-40 cm (both genders)."
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