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• powerstruggle@sh.itjust.works ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Well, no. People just misunderstand what sex means in that context. You can’t disentangle sex vs gender from evolutionary biology.

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  • zalgotext@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Gender is a social construct. There, I disentangled it from evolutionary biology.

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    • powerstruggle@sh.itjust.works ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Sure, but nobody’s arguing that. Sex is very much real and very much not a social construct.

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      • zalgotext@sh.itjust.works ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        If no one’s arguing it then why did you bring it up? And no one said anything about sex being a social construct. It’s obviously a biological thing, which explains why you seem not to understand it.

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  • lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This is an “either I’m stupid or everybody else” moment and I let you decide on your own.

    Words don’t have inherent meaning but get meaning by the people who use it in the context they do. It’s an collective and context sensitive process. I remember how in one linguistics lecture (typology), we differentiated prepositions from postpositions whereas the syntax prof was like “I don’t care if the preposition is before or after”.

    Also: Judith Butler discusses your gamete definition as utterly irrelevant in this context in Who’s Afraid Of Gender so it’s not that they aren’t aware. That’s all the hint I give you.

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    • powerstruggle@sh.itjust.works ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Judith Butler is one of those people that, when you find yourself agreeing with her, you should sit back and really consider how you arrived at that conclusion. She’s not always wrong, but she’s very wrong on a lot of stuff, including the gamete definition. Here’s one example:

      whyevolutionistrue.com/…/judith-butler-on-trumps-…

      You may see elsewhere in this thread where I point out the difference between sex determination and sex definition, which is mentioned in that link:

      Here she conflates “determination” with “definition”, a bad move for someone as smart as Butler.

      The gist of the article is:

      Butler should have done her homework.

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      • lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        You could have engaged with my argument but instead you send an article that willfully ignores my argument as well and sprinkles in enough transphobic talking points to speak to the right while still presenting as rational and reasonable. Trans women in prisons commit far less assaults than prison warts but sure, they are the problem.

        Anyway, I stand corrected. It’s not only you but you and some random blogger who are stupid. Enjoy your fruit salad with tomatoes, avocados and pumpkin until you start to consider that not every definition is valid in every context.

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