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		jimbokun on March 3, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Banning words won’t make the world more just When did terms like "tomboy" come into vogue? The idea of a person of one sex displaying common gender characteristics of the other sex is very old.

Robotbeat on March 3, 2023 [–]

Maybe in a general sense, but not in the way we use the word “gender” today. This distinction was made by academics studying this in the 1940s and 1950s, really becoming widespread in academia in the 1960s.

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