Gender, Sex, Sexuality...

It seems to me as if the educational institutions and global institutions such as the United Nations are not very clear about the differences about Gender and Sex.  The inability to comprehend that the two have related but very interdependent meanings annoys me when there is "Gender" in place of "Sex" on a form.  It's as if these people thing that putting the word "Sex" will make those answering not take it seriously or make them feel to have intercourse... or some other strange reason that I don't get... 

Here's a little cartoon I found online that helps to explain what gender is an is not.

It possibly has something to do with the UN referring to "Gender" when they talk about women, with Goal 3 of the Millennium Development Goals being "Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women". For some reason the UN believes that "women" is a gender...  This also makes me wonder why Goal 5, "Improve Maternal Health", is not part of Goal 3...  But whatever, me believing that "women" should be a "Sex" category and "feminine" should be a "Gender" category is surpassed by me believing that there should be no categories to divide, separate and classify people.  After all, as is a statement used in Anti-Discrimination campaigns, "labels are for clothes".

I was very much annoyed when people were saying that my friend Wesley was an unsuitable candidate for the Faculty of Humanities Representative at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus because he was gay.  I fail to realise how being gay takes away from one's ability to do their job efficiently and effectively.  There was little question as to his capabilities though, which include much experience in the arts and management.  What I believe is that these people are so threatened by how open he is with his sexuality that they they react in this homophobic manner.

"Latent homosexuality can be defined as homosexual arousal which the individual is either unaware of or dent. Psychoanalysts use the concept of repressed or latent homosexuality to explain the emotional malaise and irrational attitudes displayed by some individuals who feel guilty about their erotic interests and struggle to deny and repress homosexual impulses. In fact, West stated, 'when placed in a situation that threatens to excite their own unwanted homosexual thoughts, they overreact with panic or anger.""

PBS.com "Putting Freud to the Test" by Henry E. Adams et al.

So if they people still seem intent on making "men" and "women" into "Gender" categories... we'll play along with it.  If they want to change meanings, then so can we...  Here's another wonderful little cartoon that shows, above all, that people should be not categorised by things that do not necessarily affect the quality of human being that they would are.