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[-] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Or even the gender?

Edit: so... based on the downvotes this gets, its not OK for a male to interrupt but if it had been a female or other gender, then it would have been ok?

[-] Specal@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

Male and Female aren't genders, they're Sex, Words used to describe biological makeup of a living creature, for example XX Chromosomes are Female, XY Chromosomes are Male, but there are also instances where XXY Chromosomes can happen, and things get a little tricky.

Gender is what we use to tell children how to behave based on their genetalia and cause dysphoria in them when they don't want to do something but will get ostracized for doing what people with the other genetalia do.

[-] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

Thanks. Its a bit confusing to me especially as a none English user. But your description of gender sounds negative. I assume a gender can be a neutral description of oneself? I am not sure.

My point here though is, that OP mentioning it was a male, is as irrelevant as their skin color. I dont see why it needs to be there when they dont add other irrelevant characteristics such as nationality, age, hair color etc.

[-] madcaesar@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

You know when the right looks at the left and calls us batshit? Your comment is shit they point to...

[-] Specal@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

What's batshit about it? As a society we do exactly that, we tell boys to like blue and girls to like pink.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

There’s a lot more to sex than chromosomes. It’s probably better to say it’s clustering of positions on bimodal curves of traits. And even then you wind up with weird shit because biology really doesn’t like simple classifications. Like seriously there are so fucking many ways to be intersex and intersex people are downright common.

But also grammatically male and female when used to refer to humans are generally just the adjectives for man and woman.

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