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
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        119 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
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        39 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
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        19 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