grammatical gender and thing-chuds-think-is-sex2 aren't automatically the same. languages that have piles of linguistic genders generally don't have that many social roles, but "it's unfortunate we use the word gender for both of these things" is the limit of my knowledge here.
Yeah, the term "gender" used to mean just like a category, but narrowed in meaning to be specifically about all the stuff we think about these days when we hear it. It makes a lot more sense when you realize it's historically from the same root as "genus" and "genre".
grammatical gender and thing-chuds-think-is-sex2 aren't automatically the same. languages that have piles of linguistic genders generally don't have that many social roles, but "it's unfortunate we use the word gender for both of these things" is the limit of my knowledge here.
Yeah grammatical gender is just a way to categorize nouns and it just happens to be called gender, at least according to a quick google search.
Yeah, the term "gender" used to mean just like a category, but narrowed in meaning to be specifically about all the stuff we think about these days when we hear it. It makes a lot more sense when you realize it's historically from the same root as "genus" and "genre".