Humans seem to feel a need to put a gender to just about everything that even vaguely affords gendering. An example is the strange concept known as "brain sex". According to researchers, humans are possessed of this brain sex, and brain sex can be male or female. A "male" brain sex is more often found in genetic males, and vice versa. Thought processes typically associated with males are neatly categorized under the "male" heading, and so on.
It becomes potentially misleading when males are found to be capable of having female brain sexes, and females that of males. For some reason, brain sex isn't limited to the respective genders. "Brain sex" is a bad term, in my opinion. It implies that men are almost always like this, women like that. If someone knows it, that person may well try to fit "deviants" into the "right" categories. It also serves to perpetuate stereotypes. I say they should just scrap the "sex" part of the name. After all, it isn't so much sex as it is processing capabilities.
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