/sci/ - Science & Math

>>15025570
Fine question. Without going into it too deeply, I would argue that gender permeates both the contingent, ontical reality of Being, and that the tendency to categorize into types is an ontological foundation of Being. It is not essential to Being that any particular gender norms be as they are, but it is necessary to Being that gender norms of some type do arise. I would also argue that the norms only arise when transgression is possible, as a necessary condition for norms to arise at all.
>>15025586
>It's called marking nouns with the gender that corresponds to the sex of the referents.
Yes, 'natural gender' is merely in correspondence to sex, but I don't quite understand how that isn't still literally (and grammatically) gendering.