gender is like comics, if you only think the Big Two exist you're unbelievably fucking tedious
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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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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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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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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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tools of violent oversimplification that basically exist to let people be lazy with their cognitive maps at the cost of understanding
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