Science

I remember having an argument about this on Lemmy lol.

Trying to explain to the user that kept using the "organized around producing large/small gametes" definition that there is no "supposed to" in biology. It either happens or it doesn't. It doesn't matter if you have a penis, testes and went through an androgenic puberty. It is unfortunate if you wanted kids (and that's why we use the word "suposed to". To explain why it doesn't work), but that doesn't meant that your body was "supposed to" produce small gametes.

This graphic triggers me so hard. Take that PhD away from him.

I'm part way through the article, and its a fascinating read, and very well explained

I think its interesting how people tie themselves into knots with the whole binary male/female with convoluted descriptions of large small gametes defining gender (I'm particularly thinking of jk rowlings tweet and all the terf stuff)

I can see how binary definitions can never adequately reflect the complexity of an individuals internal experience. And also the designation of male/female is a social construct than biological reality

I am a late in life diagnosed autistic woman, my experience of reality will always differ from someone who doesn't have sensory issues because of my autism. I've had my mother, teachers and friends deny my experiences of reality because it doesn't match theirs. It seems barbaric to apply outdated social constructs to something as varied and complex as a human being

I think I may be waffling, but TLDR thanks for the link, its helping me understand things more clearly

Edit, just finished reading it now, and I love how it suggests using the description of a "mosaic" definition of gender as opposed to binary or spectrum

Really good article

~Gender is not binary~

Gender cannot be expressed as a 1 bit value

As a Blackadder fan, I'm struggling with this because of Nursie.

Out you popped, out of your mummies tumpkin and everyone shouted : “It’s a boy, it’s a boy!”. And somebody said “but it hasn’t got a winkle!”. And then I said “A boy without a winkle? God be praised, it is a miracle. A boy without a winkle!” And then Sir Thomas More pointed out that a boy without a winkle is a girl. And everyone was really disappointed.

That was a good read

Wdym it's not binary?? You either have sex or don't have sex, simple as!! /s

I find it odd that we have advanced how complex our understanding of human beings and gender are and yet…we STILL have old timey days levels of designatiin when it comes to determining a person’s gender ? Why?

We literslly have technologies that we can use to help a person transition from one gender to another or even to help them become more like the non-binary person they really are with different hormones! And different sugeries!..and yet…we still have this binary , well-overdue designation when it comes to understanding gender!?

Back im the past a person would burn at the stake the suggestion that such a tjing as ‘hormones’ exist or even at the suggestion of a mosaic model of gender, gender expression , and sexuality…and yet…most humans stilll drag on this neolithic barbaric format when it comes to understanding modern gender, gender expressions and sexuality?!

We outnumber the capitalists, we always have and we always will, so I dont see why WE aent the ones who are dictating how WE define , format , understand, and deeper research things like gender, gender expressions, sexuality, and even other concepts relating the mosaic models of human categorization that we havent begun to even research yet!

And I say this as a cis-male who was rsised with that very binary, outdated, ‘oNlY mAlE AnD fEmAle’ model of gender. I was actually somewhat shocked when I was presented this mosaic model relating to the mosaic model of gender and sexuality and human categorization because this is only the SURFACE! We can go deeper!

Cause like think about it : With the mosaic model of gende r, sexuality, and human expression w e are merely scratching the SURFACE of things relating to gender snd sexuality and human expression . We have learned more about the human brain in the last 30 years alone than we have in the last like 500 or 1000 or whatever millenia…what is to say that we are not going to do the same when it comes to gender, sexuality and human expression in the next 30 years? Heck there could be like a 3D or even 4D Mosaic Model that finally accurately , undeniably, falsifiably defines ALL of human gender, sexuality and expression!....

Maybe Im getting a bit too ahead of myself with the 4D model lol but I do think we can all agree that our current understanding of gender, sexuality and human expression and even social relations betwween different people of different genders is being held back by letting ourselves be controlled by capitalists who only want to research new weapons to more effectively vaporize Palestinians, Venezuelans, Colombians, Cubans , and Sudanese .... 😐 We gotta end that first!

Biblically accurate sex

I've read that women's skin is elastic along two axes while men's skin is elastic along only one axis. Is true, or variable across a spectrum, or simply false?