Gender role, which refers to the cultural expectations as understood by gender classification, is not the same thing as gender identity, which refers to the internal sense of one's own gender, whether or not it aligns with
Definition of butterfly effect : a property of chaotic systems (such as the atmosphere) by which small changes in initial conditions can lead to large-scale and unpredictable variation in the future state of the system
The big news about chaos is supposed to be that the smallest of changes in a system can result in very large differences in that systemâs behavior. The so-called butterfly effect has become one of the most popular images of chaos. The idea is that the flapping of a butterflyâs wings in Argentina could cause a tornado in Texas three weeks later. By contrast, in an identical copy of the world sans the Argentinian butterfly, no such storm would have arisen in Texas.