They do this classic extend-and-retreat gambit about that. They insist it's about gametes ONLY, but when you point out that gametes don't have any direct effects on sports performance they insist that it just matters, okay?
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Replying to @iridienne @lawnerdbarak and
It matters, because the testosterone that has a huge effect on bodily development during puberty is produced for the most part in the same gonads that produce gametes.
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Replying to @NathanielHart72 @iridienne and
Wait, but you just said hormone levels are totally irrelevant. athlete could be walking around with a 10” schlong and testosterone levels 5x what *im* running, but if he’s got some internal Fallopian tubes he didn’t even know about due to chimerical twin you think he’s a wkman
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Replying to @lawnerdbarak @iridienne and
No female has natural testosterone levels in the normal male range. While there is a huge overlap in athletic ability between the sexes, the male world records are 10-40% higher than the female world records in almost every physical sport. That’s why we separate sports by sex.
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Replying to @NathanielHart72 @iridienne and
Uh, yes, they do. It’s exceptionally rare, but so is “olympic level athleticism” generally. Olympic champions are 5-sigma events—they are almost by definition genetic freaks. But this is irrelevant. You JUST SAID hormone levels are irrelevant to determining biological sex
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Replying to @lawnerdbarak @NathanielHart72 and
See what i mean? extend-and-retreat.
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Replying to @lawnerdbarak @NathanielHart72 and
I won't use that term because Scott Alexander is a reactionary fuckhead and i refuse to give his ideas or coinages any currency whatsoever.
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Replying to @iridienne @lawnerdbarak and
I mean he didn't invent that term but yeah it's an annoying cultural thing among his fans
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Replying to @arthur_affect @lawnerdbarak and
as far as i know, he DID invent it. Certainly he wrote a nine billion word article about it.
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No people said it before that
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Replying to @arthur_affect @iridienne and
Wikipedia says it was coined by philosopher Nicholas Shackel in 2005
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Replying to @arthur_affect @lawnerdbarak and
Aha. Okay, so Alexander was just a popularizer. The RatCult people in general LOVE the idea.
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