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Great resource! Thanks! Aside: Good God that list is cringy!
by Balgair 7y ago
Great resource! Thanks!
Aside: Good God that list is cringy!
- whatshisface 7y agoWhat it really puts into perspective is, Fifty years from now, student loan derivatives will be the largest asset class, you'll be worried about teenagers spongling each other on the lacework, and you'll read an article about the graduating generation and find it pretty insightful.
- jlborxes 7y agoThe lacework spongling issue is definitely exaggerated by the conservative bigots who believe that there are only 45 genders.
- falcor84 7y agoRegardless of the chosen value of x, Why do people feel the need to assign others to one of x boxes at all?
- jlborxes 7y agoBecause that's a feature of human perception. How would you handle social life without at least some labeling of others? You brain would overload with all the unnecessary information. Labeling is basically saving brain's RAM and CPU power.
- whatshisface 7y agoI think the Large Integer Gender thing was invented by academics with a strong cultural bias towards taxonimizing.
- banannaise 7y agoIt was invented by conservatives trying badly to make jokes about LGBT+ acceptance.
- nyolfen 7y agoa few million years of genetic programming and the fact that presentation and chromosome type correlate in >99.9% of cases. gender may not be a fact of the universe but it's about as close as complex cultural traits get.