Original sentence: Gender is commonly used as a synonym for sex, referring to males and females classified according to genetic differences and distinct primary and secondary sex characteristics.Situations sometimes arise where sex or gender may be mimicked by inanimate objects, notably in cable connectors that have "male" and "female" counterparts.Social scientists use gender to refer to a particular social identity, status, and cluster of roles, that are often (but not exclusively) determined on the basis of sex
Edited sentence: Gender is a grammatical term only.Situations sometimes arise where either sex (male/female) or gender (masculine/feminine/neuter) may be mimicked by inanimate objects, notably in cable connectors that have "male" and "female" counterparts.Social scientists' abuse of the term gender refers to a particular social identity, status, and cluster of roles, that are often (but not exclusively) determined on the basis of sex.This blunder is illustrated well by politically motivated parties' (and/or ignorant users' of the language) common misuse of gender as a synonym for sex, referring to males and females classified according to genetic differences and distinct primary and secondary sex characteristics.To speak of persons or creatures of the masculine or feminine gender is either a jocularity (permissible or not according to context) or a blunder