@Mariah To paraphrase your concept (and please correct if this is not it): sex refers to the genetic disposition of the anatomy. And gender is an unchosen mental disposition.
If this is so, then why does gender relate to sex (i.e. why are genders masculine and feminine)?
Why aren’t the genders more like: antagonist, bookworm, mad-video-gamer, etc.?
I only ask, because the mere fact that the genders are rooted in the sexes (even in the root of the word ‘gender’) offers, what seems to me, only two available options, male and female. But I can’t see how people are arguing away these genders (i.e. gender roles are false misconceptions), but at the same time acknowledge their gender as male or female, and even speak/chat about it in those words.
I guess what I’m wondering is: Is there a male gender? Is there a female gender? Are there other genders besides?
Lastly, I didn’t imply gender is chosen. I offered thoughts/considerations of relations within a perspective in which genders are chosen, because I have heard and read others speaking and writing such ideas. I explained my applied concept of ‘gender’ earlier in the thread, and it has nothing to do with choice. I use sex and gender to mean the same thing.
I don’t apply the gender-roles, or gender as it seems most here do, hence my questions trying to understand it. I can’t grasp the idea of the male sex of/with a female gender without applying some form of standards that define what a female gender is as opposed to male; and if such definition is applied, then the gender roles have been substantiated then and there. If not, how so?