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  • Sexes of the Homo Sapiens

    From Mikhail T.@21:1/5 to All on Fri Apr 9 23:04:37 2021
    On 08.03.21 08:26, entwickeln14 wrote:
    Homo Sapiens, uniquely among mammals, have more than
    two sexes.

    Really? When did that happen?

    When the Marxists gave up on Marxism-1.0 -- workers' lives just failed
    to suck, as 'twere, contrary to the bearded charlatan's predictions. And
    so a new source of dissatisfaction was necessary for the Revolution.

    I can't even imagine what a third sex would look like. Citation, please.

    https://slate.com/technology/2019/10/gender-binary-nonbinary-code-databases-values.html

    "Back in the 1950s, when modern computer systems were first designed,
    gender was generally considered fixed. If you filled out a paper form,
    it asked for your name and offered you two choices for gender: male or
    female. You could pick one."

    "If you are designing code for maximum speed and efficiency using a
    minimum of memory space, you try to give users as few opportunities as
    possible to screw up the program with bad data entry. A Boolean for
    gender, rather than a free text entry field, gives you an incremental
    gain in efficiency. It also conforms to a certain normative aesthetic
    known as “elegant code.”

    "That aesthetic, however, dates to the very earliest era of computing.
    It’s not inclusive. It is specifically exclusionary to someone like Zemí Yukiyú Atabey, an NYU graduate student who identifies as genderqueer and nonbinary. Atabey’s pronouns are ze (“Where is ze?”)/zem (“I don’t have
    the tickets. I gave them to zem.”)."


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  • From entwickeln14@21:1/5 to Mikhail T. on Sat Apr 10 05:01:05 2021
    On Friday, April 9, 2021 at 11:04:38 PM UTC-4, Mikhail T. wrote:
    On 08.03.21 08:26, entwickeln14 wrote:
    Homo Sapiens, uniquely among mammals, have more than
    two sexes.

    Really? When did that happen?

    [...]
    "That aesthetic, however, dates to the very earliest era of computing. It’s not inclusive. It is specifically exclusionary to someone like Zemí Yukiyú Atabey, an NYU graduate student who identifies as genderqueer and nonbinary. Atabey’s pronouns are ze (“Where is ze?”)/zem (“I don’t have
    the tickets. I gave them to zem.”)."

    What you cite is an example of people conflating sex and gender. They are not the same thing.
    Sex is a biological given. Gender includes other aspects of people that amount to cultural stereotypes.

    And I really don't care if someone identifies him/her/itself as the 'moon' gender. People can identify
    as penguins and it wouldn't really bother me unless they used that as an excuse to be jerks.

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