their gender. The primitives cannot be gender if we want the model to not end up being essentially a new "binary", i.e., an N-ary system
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that still ends up being prescriptive and exclusionary. IMHO ofc.
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If you assign genders to the primitives you fail to model gender, IMHO.
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You end up modelling interactions of known (but perhaps wrongly defined) genders. But gender itself is mix of roles, clothes, personalities.
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So to model it you have to realise that a person might have exactly the same end result as another, e.g., "male", but different features.
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And vice versa, the same features but end up with different genders e.g., "gender fluid" or "woman", etc.
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You would be able to locate trends above such rare cases, but would somebody be able to avoid prescriptivism, at least I hope.
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*somebody=somehow
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By the way, the main reason other than cyclic logic that you can't have "woman" as a primitive is because of the perhaps obvious fact that
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women themselves are all different to one another and how they embody the "woman" concept. Same for all other genders too.
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