Transcript: a 4 panel comic by Brooke Valley. A man is holding a sign saying “There’s only 2 genders”, Brooke walks in and says “Hmm?”, "You know, not only is that wrong and harmful… ", “It’s downright boring”.

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    • RozaŭtunoOP
      14•9 months ago

      Gender != Sex. And there are more than 2 sexes too, because, it turns out, intersex people exist.

      Biology is exciting, and interesting, if you bothered to actually learn something about it.

        • RozaŭtunoOP
          11•9 months ago

          Regardless of what you identify, that is a whole other thing, the human body is quite binary (except from very few anomalies)

          “The human body is binary, except when it’s not binary”

        • The Quuuuuill
          English
          3•9 months ago

          a subclass within a grammatical class (such as noun, pronoun, adjective, or verb) of a language that is partly arbitrary but also partly based on distinguishable characteristics (such as shape, social rank, manner of existence, or sex) and that determines agreement with and selection of other words or grammatical forms

          Note that the definition says that biology informs, but does not define, gender. In fact, arbitrary is part of the definition. Further, dictionaries give us introductions to words, not a concrete and unchanging lexigraphical mandate

        • Hyperreality
          1•9 months ago

          gender noun
          OPAL WOPAL S
          /ˈdʒendə®/
          /ˈdʒendər/
          ​> [uncountable, countable] the fact of being male or female, especially when considered with reference to social and cultural differences, rather than differences in biology; members of a particular gender as a group

          https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/gender

          gender
          noun
          uk /ˈdʒen.dər/ us /ˈdʒen.dɚ/
          gender noun (PEOPLE)
          a group of people in a society who share particular qualities or ways of behaving which that society associates with being male, female, or another identity

          https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/gender

          … In this dichotomy, the terms male and female relate only to biological forms (sex), while the terms masculine/masculinity, feminine/femininity, woman/girl, and man/boy relate only to psychological and sociocultural traits (gender). This delineation also tends to be observed in technical and medical contexts, with the term sex referring to biological forms in such phrases as sex hormones, sex organs, and biological sex

          https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gender

    • The Quuuuuill
      English
      3•9 months ago

      You’re thinking of sex (only not even, since intersex people exist), not gender. Gender is socially constructed

    • Neato
      1•9 months ago

      It’s not even true for sex. Intersex is a huge spectrum.