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> As one example, one such diversity course at Kent university requires all students to affirm that ‘sex is, in fact, a diverse, multi-expressive form of identi
by tomlockwood 4y ago
> As one example, one such diversity course at Kent university requires all students to affirm that ‘sex is, in fact, a diverse, multi-expressive form of identity and a full spectrum.’
Correct, there are multiple continuous quantifiers which we can use to determine sex and therefore it is a multimodal distribution.
- doffa 4y agoIt's not a continuous distribution - there's no biological variable of 'sex units' that describe a spectrum of maleness to femaleness. It's also not really an identity in any meaningful sense. A male can say "I am female", but, that is just a false statement.
- tomlockwood 4y agoYou're right - there's no biological variable of 'sex units', that'd be a discrete thing.
- ohCh6zos 4y agoIsn’t that in itself imperialism? What if the student was from the Islamic world, which google tells me, believes sex to be binary as a cosmological statement.
- tomlockwood 4y agoSo you're saying that there's culturally different views on sex that we need to consider? Agreed. It makes the distribution even more multimodal.
- ohCh6zos 4y agoIsn’t forcing the affirmation of a single view the opposite of that?
- tomlockwood 4y agoSaying sex is "diverse" isn't forcing the affirmation of a single view. I agree with you, there are cultural conceptions of sex that we need to consider - which increases the amount of conceptions of sex! Which single view am I enforcing? If you're against the enforcement of a single view, what would you prefer here?
- kennend3 4y ago> Correct, there are multiple continuous quantifiers which we can use to determine sex and therefore it is a multimodal distribution. Out of curiosity, what would these "quantifiers" be? Given your claim that there are many you should be able to supply a list?
- tomlockwood 4y agoHormones, chromosomes, gene expression, and many phenotypes.