Sure, but it’s sounding like guns kill people. People don’t kill people. We use skin color to discriminate against people, but doesn’t mean you can’t use it as a categorization in other ways. Anything can be used to discriminate against somebody. Credit score. Types of clothes they wear. Whatever.

Agreed. Just commenting on biological sex. The law sucks.

Agreed. Just commenting on “biological sex”. The law sucks.

For sure. There are always outliers and opportunity for more granular classification. Doesn’t mean the classifiers we have now are wrong, just not complete. I think it wouldn’t be as big of a concern if we didn’t relate male and female so closely to man and woman.

All good. I’m referring to the comment that I replied to stating that they don’t like the term “biological sex.” Not saying that trans people should be bucketed into being men or women based on their goodies. I’m saying that biologically, across many animals, specifically mammals, we can say something has this kind of genitalia or that. Call it male or female. Call it bapu and beepo. It’s a biological difference that can be classified along with other traits.

So you’re saying it’s true

Sure but you can classify the ones with just two types of genitalia as something or another. Doesn’t mean you can’t have other layers of classification.

Woah. I don’t have an hour and a half to dissect all the ways an animal with a penis and an animal with a vagina may not fit the standard classifications of male and female. Not discrediting that there are so many different life forms out there that can’t possibly just be two categories, but you also can’t say that “pretty much everything I said is wrong.” If I wanna breed dogs, I’m gonna need two types of genitalia. Elephants? Same. Salmon? Ducks? Lots of animals can be classified in that way. Not all their characteristics, but their reproductive traits for sure.

I totally understand what you’re saying, but if you take gender out of it and just think about humans as any other animal, you could classify animals with penises and animals with vaginas separately especially if you’re breeding them. The AI overlords won’t care when they’re breeding us.

EDIT: two types of genitalia instead of just penis and vagina. And not all but many animals.

Like the Mitch Hedberg joke about rice

That’s beautiful really

You’re an abomination.

He dead

Yeah and it varies by culture too.

Correlation strikes again? Turns out it’s just how we’re raising boys?

That’s right. I just tell them to put the hot dog in the palm of my hand and pour topping on me so I don’t waste the bread.

You must take a bite from the middle of a hot dog you savage beast.

Because you’re on Lemmy…

Then there are people who don’t snap pieces off and just bite it across the grooves like some sort of feral creature.