ppl are rly forgetting that the idea of teaching hard science that included evolution n environmentalism's been a liberal cause for decades
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Replying to @OriginalBubsRA
& "gender is a spectrum" is trivially true, scientifically speaking. most people's current concerns about it are how we handle it culturally
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Replying to @Tipsycaek @OriginalBubsRA
Gender is bimodal and fairly concentrated. The argument is between people who believe it's discrete and people who believe it's uniform.
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Replying to @St_Rev @GrumplessGrinch and
I’m not sure I’ve seen an argument for it actually being uniform. Did you mean continuous?
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Replying to @daniel_houck @GrumplessGrinch and
Ppl who believe in infinitely shifting gender rarely have the analytic chops to pin down their beliefs, but if you reject bimodality...
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Replying to @St_Rev @daniel_houck and
Once you're at genderbread levels of category-chopping, it's pretty much an even smear.
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Replying to @St_Rev @daniel_houck and
eg http://itspronouncedmetrosexual.com/2015/03/the-genderbread-person-v3/ … presents a 10-dimensional model via UI sliders of all things--and the examples are pretty evenly distributed.
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Replying to @St_Rev @daniel_houck and
In particular, the way biological sex is presented here is...inadequate.
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Replying to @St_Rev @daniel_houck and
This kind of model implies a lot of things that just aren't true--changing _expression_ from day to day v. different from attraction...
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...which is v. different from biology. And using horizontal sliders w/ evenly distributed samples implies uniform distro.
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Replying to @St_Rev @GrumplessGrinch and
Yes. It’s trying to be maximally expressive, but that makes it almost minimally informative, and there are still things it can’t express.
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