Yeah I kinda forgot the whole “model” aspect of it. Models are still useful, but they’re just that: models. If it’s not helping the current context, then it’s just useless.
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Fedizen@lemmy.world 5 days agoI addressed your points. Please read what you’re responding to.
Binette@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
powerstruggle@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
I mean, you’re just flat-out wrong. You should listen to those lectures, they would do you some good.
In mammals, there are two types of gamete and two classes of reproductive anatomy. The male sex class produces many small motile gametes – sperm – for transfer. The female sex class produces few large immobile gametes – ova – and gestates/delivers live young. […] Biological sex does not meet the defining criteria for a spectrum. […] Not one of these individuals represents an additional sex class.
(Because it sadly needs to be said, I’m not “citing wordpress”, I’m citing a project created by a PhD Developmental Biology with many signatories with relevant credentials, which she chose to host on wordpress)
Bringing up hyenas is ironic, because it’s a great illustration of why sex is defined that way. Female hyenas have a pseudopenis. But how can we tell that they’re female? Because they produce the larger of two gamete types! Without the gametic definition of sex, there’s no way of talking about “female” across species.
Sex is defined by gamete production because it’s the only coherent way to describe the reality that biologists have found across all anisogamous species.
Sex currently has 2 plus several proposed additional definitions.
Biology has one definition of sex, that has remain unchanged for well over a century, and has no serious attempts to change it.
Fedizen@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Look if you don’t understand what models are I would encourage you to take a single college level science class.
powerstruggle@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
I just quoted people with PhDs in the subject at hand, telling you that you’re wrong. Do you think that they’ve maybe taken a single college level science class?
Fedizen@lemmy.world 5 days ago
You’re taking the quotes out of context
AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 5 days ago
But this guy says it, and he’s defined himself to be the sole authority, so that matters more than any number of biologists.
Every argument they come up with has been refuted in past threads, and they just dismiss anything they disagree with as irrelevant, but treating tenuous sources like a supposed screenshot of Imane Khalif’s SRY test originating from an obscure site that’s never been republished by a mainstream one, even if they’d been calling for her to be barred from future tournaments based on no evidence so would love to vindicate their stance with test results.
It’s not worth your time to engage with them in good faith.
powerstruggle@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
I’m sure everyone would like to see said refutations. You’re not lying, are you?