Boring [CW: Transphobia]
Boring [CW: Transphobia]
Transcript: a 4 panel comic by Brooke Valley. A man is holding a sign saying "There's only 2 genders", Brooke walks in and says "Hmm?", "You know, not only is that wrong and harmful... ", "It's downright boring".
Here's a relevant Sartre quote from 1944:
“Never believe that [they] are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The [bigots] have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”
It is indeed quite boring, because their methods haven't changed much at all in almost a hundred years.
The depressing thing, is that it still works and that because so many people don't understand history, we are likely doomed to repeat it.
Bits are only true or false, qbits are a spectrum.
I like qgender
So my dump uneducated question is: if there are only 2 genders is wrong, what is the right answer? I understand gender as universal social norms. Most socities are structured around male and female (some like india have itersex but i don't know how much that counts).
I'm well aware who uses this argument and why. It is the wanne be scientific take to say queerness is scientificly wrong and mistakes should be corrected.
It's an uncountable noun. You are asking a question roughly akin to "How many airs are there?" There's not an answer because it does not have the quality of countability.
Gender is a social tool that has been used to group people or ourselves into categories based on characteristics related to sex. On some level, it has to be based on appearance because we don't usually know what genitals somebody has or their medical history.
Just having men and women is a too simple version of the tool. People are complicated and varied and for many reasons sometimes don't see themselves as belonging to either bucket or prefer other ones altogether.
Sure, but this is just the problem with brouth categories. Society still hasn't solved that issue. Over all we still only have the outlined ideas of men and women, as unfitting as they might be to some.
Very wrong. Should be there're.
theren't would be correct