Comment on Denying the Human Sex Binary Turns Biology into Nonsense
communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 5 weeks agoNo. You’re once again confusing sex with phenotype an/d genotype. The only thing that unites a large swathe of the animal kingdom in regards to sex is gamete size. If we toss that out, we lose precision
The point of the discussion is to figure out if there’s a better way to determine this, a more precise way, the point of such discussions are to move the field forward, all things in science should be questioned, and that is the way of science.
No, that is precisely my point. Sex is determined by many different factors especially across species. Sex is defined as gamete size because there’s no other coherent definition.
Can you not imagine the possibility that it isn’t the best way to determine it?
You really pick bad citations. Citing someone who says “oh i was just being ironic!” is laughable.
That still leaves my other citations in tact, and I could have much more, the point was that many people in the field agree with what i’m saying.
She also confuses sex and phenotypes as you have been and those other citations do.
We aren’t confused, again, this is the difference between determining and defining sex.
tahira@hilariouschaos.com 4 weeks ago
The definition you’re pushing is incoherent garbage. If there’s actually a better definition, great. Yours isn’t it.
I’m not going to wade through a bunch of garbage. You couldn’t even be arsed to figure out that the author isn’t a serious academic and won’t stand behind her own work before citing it. Find real citations first. A shit poll isn’t a citation either
communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 4 weeks ago
All definitions are incoherent garbage, is the problem, that’s why they’re trying to make new better ones.
My definition stands, sex is not binary, because of intersex people, even by that definition, that’s one of many possible definitions, how do you know you have the best one?
What do you think my definition is, and what are its flaws?
Okay, but they still stand.
Chucklestheclown@hilariouschaos.com 4 weeks ago
Sex is binary. It’s taught in biology in binary. Trust science. Sex is a classification for reproduction and not feelings.
communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 4 weeks ago
Yes, except for hermaphrodytes and when you get more into the weeds it kinda breaks down… like a lot of basic concepts in biology.
Species are taught as things that cannot interbreed, but you also will realize that falls apart along close analysis.
No. Science is all about skepticism, you don’t have to trust science, that’s the whole point! You make reproducible, repeatable predictions precisely so that you do not have to trust science. Science is not a faith.
You’re the one that seems to have feelings blocking your ability to process this.
Sex is a classification that needs improvement to accurately describe the totality of reproduction.