“it helps me separate sex and gender in my head”
*Biologist voice* Well we call plants sex organs male and female because…I dont actually know but if I ever meet an alien Im going to ask it if its a boy or a girl
we’re calling those sex organs male and female because there are actual definitions for these terms and these definitions are gamete based.
Small, numerous, mobile gametes: male
Big, few, immobile ones: female.
That’s it, that’s the whole magic, so far we’ve on this planet not found anything with a third gamete type.
To wit: unicellular organisms with sexual (read: genetic recombination) reproduction are classed into mating types which are highly individual to the species because surprisingly enough, something that’s made up of only one cell doesn’t have gametes and thus we can’t use the definition of sex that we normally operate under. It’s more than possible that extraterrestrial life would have evolved differently and would therefore class entirely differently.
But yes please keep blabbering because you can’t be arsed to do a fucking google search for the proper defintions.
This post is commenting on the fact that we call gametes and sex organs as a whole male or female. Im complaining about the fact that biologists are so wrapped up in the Western gender binary that they apply it to fucking bees and flowers.
But yes just keep assuming that Im an idiot who doesnt understand simple biology rather than someone who is frustrated with language used to describe things
If we’d call them anything else we’d still have those two things because there are two types of gametes on this planet as far as we know. You could call them red and blue and would still end up being a binary because lo and behold there are two kinds of gametes, meaning there are two types of sexes which are, by course of history named by the terms ‘male’ and ‘female’. Naming them tow other things wouldn’t change anything about the basic facts that these things calls into two groups, in a way that spans all sexually reproducing multicellular life on this planet as far as we’re aware.
Also has nothing to do with gender because we’re talking about sex here and yes sex is binary, intersex conditions are not a third sex because they do not meet the definition for being a sex.
Hence why I will never use ‘male’ or ‘female’ to describe gender. These are scientific terms that I only use to describe sex. It helps me separate sex and gender in my head.
plus intersex conditions are uncommon.
Intersex people exist, and they are valid, but the fact is that most people fit neatly into either male or female. If over 95% of the population fits neatly into one of those binaries, then it makes sense that biologists and scientists would group them under those different categories.Lmaoooo, a genderist tried to act like they know more about biology than a BIOLOGIST.
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