One interesting (i.e. ironical) aspect to World War T is that it has to be crashing against a biological limit: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2014/02/heres-a-list-of-58-gender-options-for-facebook-users/ … ...
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... No one seriously thinks human cognitive capability can manage 58 gender categories in quotidian social interactions, do they? ...
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... Messing with pronouns takes you straight into the foundational sub-basement of a language -- absolutely basic points of competence. ...
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... This is the cultural infrastructure (all moral questions aside), ground right up against raw neurological capacity. ...
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... If minimal 'politeness' requires mastery of -- say -- five gender pronouns, how big a slice of the bellcurve is going to be calved off?
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... My guess would be that for ~40% of the population, dealing with this would require trading off a crippling chunk of brain function. ...
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@BrowningMachine @SOBL1 "Near-infinite" -- innocence @ work.
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