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mech@feddit.org 19 hours agoWhat does this even mean?
Who “organizes” bodies?
If a body can’t and never could produce gametes, what makes it “organized” to do so anyway?
Comment on OnLy tWo eLemEnTs
mech@feddit.org 19 hours agoWhat does this even mean?
Who “organizes” bodies?
If a body can’t and never could produce gametes, what makes it “organized” to do so anyway?
powerstruggle@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
There is no “who”, it’s the process of evolution over billions of years. Our bodies aren’t blank slates.
pebbles@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
Kinda feels like you dodged the question. I think they were asking you to define what it means to “organize around producing a gamete”, how folks that were never going to produce either fit into that definition, and how you construct sex as a binary despite that.
powerstruggle@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
Sorry, you’re down in the list of comments in my inbox. They’d look for structures like these for diagnosis:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramesonephric_duct
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesonephric_duct
There aren’t people born with bodies that just have “no concept” of how to produce a gamete, and that’s what I mean our bodies aren’t blank slates. Even if someone doesn’t actually produce gametes, the rest of their body is still structured in a sexed way, because we’re a sexually dimorphic species.
pebbles@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
I see what you’re saying. Something like “there are two sets of characteristics and most folks grab from the majority of one or the other. Therefore we can place everyone into one sex or the other.”
I feel like when I first read your comments I took issue with how black and white your words seemed. I still kinda feel that.
Is there some structure that’s presense or lack there of definitely defines sex for every person? If so I think its fair to call sex a binary.
I feel like I’d only be convinced if I could understand what makes the options only 0 or 1 yk? It doesn’t seem to be chromosomes, which is what I was taught growing up. X/Y Chromosomes have more that two ways of existing in humans.
I’ll read through those wiki articles a bit. To me it seems like your saying that there is some kind of structure that has no middle ground in humans. It always only goes one way or the other. No variation. It’s hard for me to picture life doing that. If ya have any more info to point to I’d be down to look at it.