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Today, students of the social sciences unquestionably understand the importance of analyzing factors such as gender, sex, age, religion, socio-economic status, and race in order to conceptualize individual and group intersectionality experiences. Most people are able to find the distinction between gender and sex, where gender is defined by social constructs of what it means to behave in masculine and feminine ways, while sex is defined by the biological question of anatomically locating male and female human parts. If this is the case, then we have already arrived at a very problematic approach to the concept of race, which does not capture the behavioural/biological distinction in the same way that sex and gender do. To be precise, the concept of race falsely assumes that humans can be concretely categorized into neat compartments where behavioural traits are inherently linked to biological ones.
— Brace (via eatingwithears)