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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Can you not imagine the possibility that it isn’t the best way to determine it?

The definition you're pushing is incoherent garbage. If there's actually a better definition, great. Yours isn't it.

That still leaves my other citations in tact

I'm not going to wade through a bunch of garbage. You couldn't even be arsed to figure out that the author isn't a serious academic and won't stand behind her own work before citing it. Find real citations first. A shit poll isn't a citation either

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The definition you’re pushing is incoherent garbage. If there’s actually a better definition, great. Yours isn’t it.

All definitions are incoherent garbage, is the problem, that's why they're trying to make new better ones. Failing to make a better one doesn't mean it isn't worth attempting.

My definition stands, sex is not binary, because of intersex people, even by that definition, that's one of many possible definitions, how do you know you have the best one?

What do you think my definition is, and what are its flaws?

I’m not going to wade through a bunch of garbage. You couldn’t even be arsed to figure out that the author isn’t a serious academic and won’t stand behind her own work before citing it. Find real citations first. A shit poll isn’t a citation either

Okay, but they still stand.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sex is binary. It’s taught in biology in binary. Trust science. Sex is a classification for reproduction and not feelings.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Sex is binary. It’s taught in biology in binary.

Yes, except for hermaphrodytes and when you get more into the weeds it kinda breaks down... like a lot of basic concepts in biology.

Species are taught as things that cannot interbreed, but you also will realize that falls apart along close analysis.

Trust science.

No. Science is all about skepticism, you don't have to trust science, that's the whole point! You make reproducible, repeatable predictions precisely so that you do not have to trust science. Science is not a faith.

Sex is a classification for reproduction and not feelings.

You're the one that seems to have feelings blocking your ability to process this.

Sex is a classification that needs improvement to accurately describe the totality of reproduction. Large/small gametes is not a perfect definition that describes the totality of things very well.

Here's an example: https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/why-this-fungus-has-over-20-000-sexes

Also, definitions are not made through science, in fact, definitions are just used by scientists to do science. A scientist has defined many things, but they didn't define them through reproducible repeatable experiments, they just went with what they felt was best. You're protecting a definition for no real reason, you're not defending science.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sex is about reproduction. There are only two sexes. Period.

I’m defending facts. We don’t need stupid children. Not understand the classification. Two is all you need for humans. Period.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Sex is about reproduction. There are only two sexes. Period.

except when there aren't like here: https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/why-this-fungus-has-over-20-000-sexes

and when even by your own gametes definition intersex people produce both.

I’m defending facts.

You're not, I just gave you contradictory facts, you're defending your opinion.

We don’t need stupid children. Not understand the classification.

There's literally nobody who doesn't understand or is confused by this.

Two is all you need for humans. Period.

Except in intersex cases where there's at least 3 and arguably 4 if you want to include producing neither gametes.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I don’t care what discovery magazine says. It’s wrong. This is my field of expertise. There are two sexes. Period. Intersex is not another sex category as much as your want it to be. It’s a defect. Plain and simple. I’ve explained this to you before and this the last time im explaining it. There are only two sexes in human biology. This isn’t a debate. This is how it’s taught and it’s taught this way for a reason.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

I don’t care what discovery magazine says. It’s wrong.

On what basis? Is that a fact or your opinion?

Here's the original source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1087184599911295?via=ihub

This is my field of expertise.

Herpetology is my field, do you specifically study reproduction?

Intersex is not another sex category as much as your want it to be.

Why not? I don't want it to be, it just seems to be as a matter of fact, by your definition, they produce two gametes, that makes them a third option no?

It’s a defect. Plain and simple.

You couldn't explain why it's a defect. This is just your opinion. You gave an example of a defect with sterility, but intersex people are not necessarily sterile. How do you make intersex a defect as a matter of fact, rather than your opinion?

There are only two sexes in human biology. This isn’t a debate.

Except for the thing you call a defect based entirely (it seems) on your opinion. It can really go either way, you just want it to go a certain way because you have feelings involved in it. I don't, that's why I can be objective and say, this isn't necessarily a defect and can count.

This isn’t a debate. This is how it’s taught and it’s taught this way for a reason.

Except it isn't taught that way at higher levels, because things are often more complex than they are at the simple levels, for the same reason species is taught as things that can't interbreed at the lower levels.

Do you know the definition of a species? You don't seem to know the difference between fact and opinion.