Because I think language is a useful tool and it makes sense to reflect relevant and obvious differences in language.
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Replying to @huckleterryfinn @chaosprime
what's the ~relevant and obvious difference~ here though?
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Replying to @butaflye @chaosprime
Potential role in procreation. If I add a new rat to my pet rats it's vital I know if it's male or female.
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Replying to @huckleterryfinn @butaflye
the thing about this is that the usual social construction of biological sex is as the binary you use here, it's either male or female
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Replying to @chaosprime @butaflye
and if you take that as your lens you can go around seeing it all day, and exceptions are freaks for your titillation or disgust
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Replying to @chaosprime @butaflye
but if you don't privilege the lens for a minute it's very quickly clear that "male" and "female" are statistical neighborhoods
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Replying to @chaosprime @butaflye
and then you see how social construction isn't just descriptive, it's coercive, with millions of babies cut up or murdered to enforce it
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Replying to @chaosprime @butaflye
It doesn't have to be coercive. I can state that majority is either male or female *and* consider being intersex 100% okay.
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Replying to @huckleterryfinn @butaflye
a little something more on why "male/female/intersex and intersex is a-okay" isn't really doing everybody as much service as we might hope:
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Replying to @chaosprime @butaflye
let's pretend that biological sex is a function of two variables (actually it's at least a couple dozen, but for the exercise)pic.twitter.com/VGA4PQtbMw
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by grouping everything outside "man" and "woman" as "intersex", we are telling points A and B that they are the same. a disservice.
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Replying to @chaosprime @butaflye
point A in fact has more in common with point C than with point B. and is it really that helpful to lump points C and D together, frankly?
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Replying to @chaosprime @butaflye
it may be possible to use these categories as tools of understanding, but it seems pretty clear that their current dominant usage is as…
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