the post-Nye woke insistence on "gender is a spectrum" is killing me. fucking no. sex is not a spectrum, sex is a large number of spectra.
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Replying to @chaosprime
gender, on the other hand, is not a spectrum, it's an unbounded conceptual space containing spectra, single points, dyads, triads, whatever.
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the meaningful question there would be whether you feel that describes the kind of person you are (it certainly seems to me as if it does)
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there might be some level of assortative utility we could request as a minimum, but idk, maybe. a difficulty here is that there's a couple…
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…competing versions of "gender". one is the one illustrated by how French for gender is "genre", i.e. where it's "kinds of person".
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i find it extremely loathsome to give sex characteristics overwhelming priority there so i tend to like anything that blows it the fuck out.
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it's entirely loathsome to reason from typicality to propriety/optimality and impose typicality on the atypical
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