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That's like saying canonically people don't have two eyes. Some are born with one less or more. It's an edge case. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12476264/ h
by Ygg2 4y ago
That's like saying canonically people don't have two eyes. Some are born with one less or more.
It's an edge case.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12476264/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12476264/
- nicoburns 4y agoSure it's an edge case. But I think we've definitely gotten to the stage of this debate where we need to be considering edge cases. Better to say "sex isn't binary, but it's close enough that it's a useful simplification" than doggedly insist that it is when technically it isn't.
- Ygg2 4y agoSo by same token you would say people don't have two eyes but in practice they mostly do. How is that more useful of a sentence than saying "People have two eyes, except in rare circumstances". It's obvious from article language is causing problems for the author. And by optimizing for the edge case, you impose problems for the most common case.