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>There's no reason they can't be So if we're saying there is no reason goth or geek or whatever can't be considered gender, then we're just saying that gender

• dragonwriter 5y ago
  > So if we're saying there is no reason goth or geek or whatever can't be considered gender That's not what I said. There's a very good reasons why, as they usually exist, those cannot be considered genders, and I provided that reason. There's no obvious logical (though there may be a practical) reason they couldn't not have the feature which makes them not genders, in which they could be genders, it's just that that doesn't actually happen. (Whether that's because of social inertia around gender categorizations or whether despite the label being a social construct there is some inherent human function of self-and-other gender categorizations which, even when one escapes socially imposed rigid binary stereotypes they still don't fit is...beyond the scope of what I am willing to stake a claim on.)
  • yucky 5y ago
    Based on this definition, gender is anything anybody wants it to be. To test this, I wonder if anybody can list out all of the genders. How many are there and what differentiates them?