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Again, it's not difficult to understand but you seem determined not to understand it. gender: how you feel about yourself: e.g. you could feel more masculine o

by Aaargh20318 4y ago

Again, it's not difficult to understand but you seem determined not to understand it. gender: how you feel about yourself: e.g. you could feel more masculine or more feminine, or something in between. Sex: the actual hardware you've got. Neither is binary.

concordDance 4y ago
Not binary, but pretty strongly bimodal. Using a single criteria like height already gets you an 80% accurate classifier in homogenous regions, adding a few more can easily get you to 99%. Also worth noting that "masculine" and "feminine" are heavily culturally constructed (e.g. wearing make up, long hair and dresses).
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- genaavrfshpxbss 4y ago
  Sex is binary though. We know this because there's no intermediate type of gamete between sperm and egg.
skissane 4y ago
> gender: how you feel about yourself: e.g. you could feel more masculine or more feminine, or something in between That seems to be assuming everyone “feels” they have a “gender”. Some people may know they have a biological sex, but without having any feelings about that fact. If “gender” is defined in terms of one’s own feelings, does a person who lacks such feelings have one? And I’m not talking about “feeling genderless” (as in a person who calls themselves “agender”), since that’s still a “feeling about gender”-I mean a person for whom “gender” (or “sex”) simply isn’t among the subjects upon which they have feelings about themselves. The idea that “sex” and “gender” are distinguishable is only widespread in certain cultures. A person who comes from a culture which doesn’t commonly distinguish them, the question of what “gender” they “feel” themselves to be may not make any sense give their own cultural understandings-they may know they have a “sex”/“gender”, but to them it may be a given about which it makes no more sense to have feelings than “feeling” one was born in a particular year, or born with whatever colour skin or hair or eyes

concordDance 4y ago

Not binary, but pretty strongly bimodal. Using a single criteria like height already gets you an 80% accurate classifier in homogenous regions, adding a few more can easily get you to 99%. Also worth noting that "masculine" and "feminine" are heavily culturally constructed (e.g. wearing make up, long hair and dresses).

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genaavrfshpxbss 4y ago
Sex is binary though. We know this because there's no intermediate type of gamete between sperm and egg.

skissane 4y ago

> gender: how you feel about yourself: e.g. you could feel more masculine or more feminine, or something in between That seems to be assuming everyone “feels” they have a “gender”. Some people may know they have a biological sex, but without having any feelings about that fact. If “gender” is defined in terms of one’s own feelings, does a person who lacks such feelings have one? And I’m not talking about “feeling genderless” (as in a person who calls themselves “agender”), since that’s still a “feeling about gender”-I mean a person for whom “gender” (or “sex”) simply isn’t among the subjects upon which they have feelings about themselves. The idea that “sex” and “gender” are distinguishable is only widespread in certain cultures. A person who comes from a culture which doesn’t commonly distinguish them, the question of what “gender” they “feel” themselves to be may not make any sense give their own cultural understandings-they may know they have a “sex”/“gender”, but to them it may be a given about which it makes no more sense to have feelings than “feeling” one was born in a particular year, or born with whatever colour skin or hair or eyes