Ancestors

Toot

Written by Lina on 2025-01-21 at 23:12

people are saying that "at conception" means we're all female now, since fetuses differentiate weeks later

but let's look at the other parts of the definitions they laid out...

in (a), sex is defined as a classification between "male" and "female"

then, in (d) and (e), "male" and "female" are each defined as "a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the [large|small] reproductive cell"

tautological definitions aside, this effectively means that sex is defined as a classification based on the production of different-sized gametes.

however, that "at conception" adds an impossible constraint. nobody produces gametes as a fetus - gamete production starts during puberty. the definitions don't allow us to consider gamete production at a later stage of development... sex is a classification based on gamete production, and classification occurs at conception.

so it seems to me that, rather than everyone being female, nobody has a sex. "male" and "female" are unattainable for humans, so we're all agender/nonbinary/etc.

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Written by AlexanderVI on 2025-01-22 at 01:29

@lina cool I guess they can quit it with their weird gender obsession now that we're all [undefined]

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Written by Ω 🌍 Gus Posey on 2025-01-22 at 01:51

@lina That would explain a great deal at once.

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Written by Iris Young (he/they/she) (PhD) on 2025-01-22 at 02:08

@lina love it. It did occur to me that if someone failed to produce gametes at all they'd be SOL, but this is better. Sorry everyone, no sex for anybody.

And there's no definition for where the line between small and large is, so really, anything goes.

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Written by Lina on 2025-01-22 at 02:19

@iris

lol yeah imo emu eggs are giant, duck eggs are large, chicken eggs are medium, quail eggs are small, fish eggs are tiny, and human eggs are teeny tiny 🙃

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