RE: Please convince me gender is binary
February 7, 2019 at 9:21 am
(This post was last modified: February 7, 2019 at 9:21 am by bennyboy.)
(February 6, 2019 at 9:33 pm)Jehanne Wrote:(February 6, 2019 at 8:14 pm)bennyboy Wrote: As a social species, we are uncomfortable when we are abnormal in some way, and not only by gender. We don't like to be at the tail ends of the Bell curve, where things get lonely and cold.
Given the varied attributes that make us all human, we are all beyond 3-sigma on at least one attribute. Just posting on this message board pushes you beyond the "99% category".
Yeah, fair enough. I can think of a lot of areas in which the top 1% would be pretty creepy to me. The top 1% of Republicans, the top 1% of hunters, or survivalists, or horror novelists, or martial artists, or vegans, or. . .
The 1% or less of biological males who identify as female IS a little bit strange to me. . . but so are all those people. Mostly, I'm comfortable with ritualized behavior, because it can be done on social autopilot: "Hey, Biff, how you doin, eh?" "Hey, Chuck. Cold enough for ya?"
