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Ahh yes the good ol' let me talk down on someone with their "elementary" level of knowledge is always a great way to start a "good faith discussion". EDIT: Int
by flippinburgers 4y ago
Ahh yes the good ol' let me talk down on someone with their "elementary" level of knowledge is always a great way to start a "good faith discussion".
EDIT: Intersex does not turn the male/female binary into a "spectrum".
- socialismisok 4y agoI didn't talk down. Genuinely, high school biology teaches us that there are two sexes XX it's a woman, XY it's a man. That's literally what we learn. It's only after you dive into the science at a collegiate level or higher that you learn there's a small percentage, maybe 1-2% of people, for whom this binary understanding is not a good model. I'm not saying it's bad to only have a high school understanding, just that it's an incomplete understanding.
- AnimalMuppet 4y agoYou may not have intended to talk down. But it came across that way...
- socialismisok 4y agoApologies! Text is difficult. If I did a poor job, I'm open to suggestions on how I could have rephrased (and if I can still edit the post, I'll try to do so).
- AnimalMuppet 4y agoIt wasn't so much the words - the words were fine. It's the assumption that "I know real biology, and you must not".
- socialismisok 4y agoThat's fair, but if you tell me there's a simple biological definition of sex, odds are pretty good you have a relatively simple model.