Would you care to explain yourself? Maybe explain how folks that would never produce either gamete fit into your binary based on gamete production? Or is that too advanced? I hear we are sticking to basic biology after all.
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powerstruggle@sh.itjust.works 2 days agoI wish this were for fun. Unfortunately, you’re being anti-science
pebbles@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
powerstruggle@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Nobody’s body is a blank slate. Just because one developmental pathway didn’t turn out as expected doesn’t mean that it’s impossible to determine sex. Their bodies are still organized around producing one or the other of two gamete sizes, hence binary.
pebbles@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
organized around producing one or the other of two gamete sizes
This implies that the organization can fail then? That is how we put the outliers in in the binary? That means that that kind of organization has an goal?
That feels like common sense. Like in the culturally-rooted sense. Not necessarily a reflection of reality, but an easy idea to swallow. I don’t think human development has intention in that kind of way unless you are religious.
I guess, what makes gamete production the goal of human development? What makes you confident that there is a goal to human development?
To me it seems like it would be hard to answer those questions without anthropomorphizing human development.
powerstruggle@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
You’re asking questions that are great, but are philosophical and go beyond this topic. Narrowly, the human body could be said to have a goal of reproducing in the same way a falling rock has a goal of reaching the ground. It’s clear how the physics play out, but there’s nothing that turns that “is” into an “ought”
davidagain@lemmy.world 2 days ago
May, you’re just taking crap because of your political indoctrination. Stupid enough to be hoodwinked into supporting right wingers is often stupid enough to refuse to understand even when people explain.
powerstruggle@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Sadly no. I’m leftist, but also not willing to abandon science because it feels nice. Right wingers are right on this like a broken clock is right twice a day and all that. Or that Hitler was a vegetarian, but that doesn’t mean that vegetarianism is wrong or bad. Pick your favorite analogy
davidagain@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Lol. Leftist like “Dems are evil, don’t ever let them win” or leftist like “Trump is a fascist cunt who should have been kept from power”?
powerstruggle@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
As in the latter. Trump is a fascist cunt who should have been kept from power.
I don’t expect you to believe it, but realizing that biology is real doesn’t mean being anti-trans.