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The paper "The Five Sexes, Revisited" which you can find at [1], is at best an essay on gender and recent changes in gender-based legislation, at worst badly wr
by YorkshireSeason 7y ago
The paper "The Five Sexes, Revisited" which you can find at [1], is at best an essay on gender and recent changes in gender-based legislation, at worst badly written political activism, but most certainly not in the slightest a scientific investigation into the biology of reproduction. The latter is what those who criticise modern conceptions of gender have in mind.
[1] https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/21a4/4d10b40354a974c8d1d3a9a0e66fef731e75.pdf https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/21a4/4d10b40354a974c8d1d3a9...
- soudiere 7y agoI referenced the original 1993 essay "The Five Sexes" You have referenced the 2000 essay, "The Five Sexes, Revisited" No on claimed it was a scientific investigation, I quoted the full text of the issue I was discussing in a previous comment.
- YorkshireSeason 7y agoI replied to "jboynyc" uncritical remarks about "The Five Sexes, Revisited", as if "The Five Sexes, Revisited" mitigated the weaknesses of Fausto-Sterling's work.
- soudiere 7y agoAh apologies, yes her revisiting of the original paper does not address many of the issues raised.