And this is the current round of arguments, mocking the idea that there's some third gamete, whilst ignoring that the question isn't about gametes but about gonads. GC people bring up the idea of some pathway of gamete production, but then back away from the gonad discussion.
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Is the gamete definition replacing the chromosome one? Did these goofs finally figure out that the chromosome definition isn't so cut-and-dried? I've lost track of what Immutable Binary definition of sex they're using this week, but I see they're still confusing sex & gender
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I swear to God *I* did a big long thread about "small gametes vs. large gametes" months before that weird ILoveBeetles lady did And at the time that I did it, I and my audience understood it to be an *attack* on biological essentialism
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AmeliaRoseWrite and
"This is what the official definition is and it's utterly absurd to treat this as though it's some universal fundamental category In plants 'male' is just the part of the flower that makes the pollen and 'female' the part that makes the seeds, *in the same plant*"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AmeliaRoseWrite and
"ANYTHING could have a big gamete producer and a small gamete producer and NOTHING you think of as the definition of 'male' and 'female' -- being the stronger one or the bigger one or the one that cares more for the offspring -- is consistently associated with one or the other"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AmeliaRoseWrite and
And then the beetle lady went and made it into a whole thing Saying the same thing but taking the EXACT OPPOSITE LESSON from it "The fact that in any anisogamous species there's a big gamete and small gamete maker (by definition) means that THESE ARE UNIVERSAL CATEGORIES"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AmeliaRoseWrite and
"Between any two objects that are capable of reflecting light at all, you can measure one that reflects more light and one that reflects less light This is a matter of basic physics and math -- no matter how close they are, no two albedos can be identical"
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"Therefore, God made some people white and some people black and that's just the way it is, long live Jim Crow"
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