Why not invent cold fusion while we're at it? How many factors would have to be kept track of and balanced with each other and who could even follow the why and how? Remember that each field would need a different heuristic. A consensus on how to balance hemoglobin levels vs testosterone levels vs femur length vs age vs weight vs God knows what would never be found, and even if it were (fat chance!) the winner would be decided according to literally arbitrary formula that would need eternal updates to keep abreast of changing statistics...
[RD] What is gender ?
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Traitorfish
The Tighnahulish Kid
Gender is the cultural articulation of sex.
Sex can be articulated in a number of ways, depending on the economic and emotional needs of a culture.
But culture isn't always good at finding an articulation that meets those needs, and different aspects of culture can change in different ways, especially if the economic and emotional landscape is unstable, and the articulation can become inconsistent or self-contradictory.
That sort of disconnect isn't unique to modernity, but seems to be characteristic of it.
Sex can be articulated in a number of ways, depending on the economic and emotional needs of a culture.
But culture isn't always good at finding an articulation that meets those needs, and different aspects of culture can change in different ways, especially if the economic and emotional landscape is unstable, and the articulation can become inconsistent or self-contradictory.
That sort of disconnect isn't unique to modernity, but seems to be characteristic of it.
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