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Originally posted by JohnT
Nice, but we live in this world. The one with two genders.
Not really. We just don't bother with a formally rigorous classification system. People are funnelled into two loose, overlapping straitjackets based on their genitalia, and that's the end of it.
Words like "tomboy", "sissy", "metrosexual", and the like exist to denote various kinds of deviation from convention. They aren't particularly systematic, but a larger picture exists.
Yes, the larger picture of two distinct sexes. What are you not getting here?
I think I'm beginning to understand JT. One problem that may be causing me some confusion...all those clothes. Do you have any educational materials where they're not all bundled up like that?
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Well, since I look like none of those, I am not of either of those genders.
Whatever.
In the seven-gender system of Greg Egan's Distress, the pictured would be of the ultra-female and the ultra-male varieties. I am more of an infra-male.
Originally posted by Lancer
I think I'm beginning to understand JT. One problem that may be causing me some confusion...all those clothes. Do you have any where they're not all bundled up like that?
I have heard rumors from faraway lands that extensive, days-long computer research might reveal possible pictures of these "women" creatures without their clothing. You might not find anything, and if you do, it is likely that you'll find the selection of photographs to be so meager, of such poor quality, as to be almost useless in your learnings.
Or you can approach one of them and ask them to remove their clothing. But that requires a skill set of a completely different sort. Better to stick with that computer thing.
Originally posted by JohnT
Yes, the larger picture of two distinct sexes. What are you not getting here?
I am saying that, just like Good and Evil, Man and Woman are a lossy way of looking at the world.
Yes, everything can be categorized as Good and Evil. Everyone can be categorized as Man and Woman. And every bitmap picture can be converted to greyscale and resized to 1x1.
But, by doing so, we lose crucial details. The model fails to approximate the real world within a reasonable margin of error Man and Woman is not very useful as a descriptive model, and it should never be used as a predictive model.
And better approximations exist.
Look at the picture space05 posted. I don't look anything like the five Men pictured, despite having the same set of genitalia and the same taste in the genitalia of a partner. If I may continue judging books by their covers, our interests, talents, and skills are very different. Something that engages my imagination and my intellect would leave them bored ****less, and vice versa.
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