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".
this post was submitted on 29 Sep 2023
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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.