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Are there more than two genders now?
by mrits 10y ago
Are there more than two genders now?
- dexwiz 10y agoI think its more about the shape.
- trombone 10y agoUh oh. The wrath of a thousand SJWs is about to fall upon you.
- talaketu 10y agoyes, as there always has been in the grammar of English and many other languages.
- ebfe 10y agoThe commenter your responding to is most likely using "gender" to refer to the concept you would describe as "sex". That is, the biological characteristic of being male or female rather than a grammatical concept.
- ashitlerferad 10y agoSex isn't binary either.
- collyw 10y agoIn the vast majority of cases it is.
- dragonwriter 10y agoA trait either is binary or is not (being binary is, itself, binary.) A trait that the vast majority of the time takes on one of two values, but other times takes on other values, is not binary.
- mrits 10y agomale,female,null
- dragonwriter 10y agoEven if that was the exact set of possible values, that's not binary (though I suppose if someone overexposed to SQL might mistake it for a being binary...)
- zeta0134 10y agoYes, and I'm not sure why he's getting downvoted. This is a legitimate Facebook feature. Gender can be either Male, Female, or Custom, and Facebook gives you the option to choose which gender pronouns you prefer. Thus, to see it represented as a boolean is unusual. I'm curious as to what the value of that field is when a user has chosen Facebook's custom gender display options.
- collyw 10y agoI am sticking with the biological definition.
- legodt 10y agoThe biological definition is not real. Binary genders are a trend, not a certainty in nature.
- mrits 10y agoI was attracted to hard sciences because the subjectivity of things like psychology turned me off. Statements like yours make me concerned that liberal arts departments are going to try to make science fit their narrative. The roles of male and female is one of the most universally common behaviors across specifies. If I grew a vagina and had a baby it doesn't make me a different gender. It means I took on some of the attributes of a human female. At that point I wouldn't consider myself male or female. But I certainly wouldn't try to make up a 3rd gender for my unique situation.
- legodt 10y agoThat's a very positivist approach, and I hope the liberal arts continue to erode such binary based thinking in the sciences as I believe that philosophy makes better scientists. . And so what if you "made up" another gender? Gender is socially constructed and is not a real, concrete construct. I'm sorry that considering concepts and people as unable to be hyper taxonomized by artificial constraints is inconvenient to you and more valuable than treating the identities of others with respect.
- dragonwriter 10y ago> Are there more than two genders now? That question needs unpacked further: (1) Are there more than two gender identities? Yes. (2) Are there more than two socially ascribed genders? Yes, given that (1) has achieved a significant degree of acceptance, as has aligning ascribed gender with identity. (3) Are there more than two grammatical genders? Depends on the language. (4) Are there more than two arrangements of sex-related biological traits? Yes (5) Are there more than two of any of the items in #1, #2, or #4 on which people might preferences that would be relevant in a dating app? Probably.