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o_O.Q on 19 May 2019
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the-pi-guy said:
o_O.Q said:

"People with XX chromosome sometimes have penises.  

People with penises sometimes have female parts.  

So chromosomes, and penises don't work 100% of the time. "

some people are blind do we then have to stop calling eyes organs used for seeing?

categories are never 100% perfect, no biologist would ever make that argument, but that doesn't mean that we just throw away categories as a result, never mind the fact that you aren't going to stop people fro categorising things automatically anyway

Who is calling for throwing away the categories?  

I know very few people that are calling to throw away categories.  It's about understanding that the categories aren't as easy to define as people grew up understanding.  

o_O.Q said:

"How do you distinguish gender? "

sex organs/appearance as everyone does

-What about people that choose to change their appearance?  

-What about people that naturally don't have distinctive features that we correlate with sex/gender?

-What about people with both sex organs?  

o_O.Q said:

"I prefer letting people decide for themselves.  "

are you a feminist?

What does it matter?

"Who is calling for throwing away the categories?  "

ok since you believe "man" and "woman" are still valid categories, how do you identify men and women?

"It's about understanding that the categories aren't as easy to define as people grew up understanding.  "

but that's not true, people have always known that reproduction is not a perfect process and occasionally abnormalities occur

"What about people that choose to change their appearance?  

-What about people that naturally don't have distinctive features that we correlate with sex/gender?

-What about people with both sex organs?  "

i treat those situations the same as i do when i see the girl with eight limbs or the guy covered in bark like growths all over his body - exceptions which does not mean that they do not deserve respect but that they do not fit into the typical characteristics we use identify a particular group

that's what people have done from the dawn of mankind

"What does it matter?"

i suppose i'm just curious about how feminism could still function when at any time someone can simply choose to identify as the other gender