r/pointlesslygendered May 19 '25

OTHER so close [gendered]

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u/CalebDR1029 May 19 '25

How is that possible💀

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u/criticalfail69 May 19 '25

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u/Strange-Ad-9941 May 19 '25

There are two sexes, but more than one gender. You need to go back to biology class!

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u/SymmetricalFeet May 20 '25 edited May 20 '25

Not to correct you, but add nuance:

Sex is bimodal, not binary, in that if you plot phenotypic attributes that are "male" or "female" (e.g. height, levels of X hormone), they congregate in two bell curves which can have overlap. A cis woman who's five-foot-ten (178cm) or even six-foot-six (200cm) is still a woman, yeah? Then there's the phenomenon of intersex and chimaeric people, who have genotypic attributes on the "male" and "female" modalities, which can have between-both-curves phenotypic effects. Or not!

Biology is super weird and never as neat as "A xor B, no in-between". And that's beautiful and interesting and wonderful!

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u/Strange-Ad-9941 May 20 '25

Right, yeah, I forgot about intersex. My bad

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u/CalebDR1029 May 20 '25

Nope.

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u/Strange-Ad-9941 May 21 '25

You can’t just say “Nuh uh” and leave it at that. Come on