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Dominik's avatar

Great article.

I hate that people on my side of the political spectrum have started to primarily use the self-identification definition... which is indeed intellectually bankrupt for obvious reasons. But there's nothing wrong at all with using a property-cluster definition

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Bentham's Bulldog's avatar

Thanks.

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cinc's avatar

What about defining 'female' and 'male' in terms of gametes? I don't see how that's "tricky and imprecise."

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Bentham's Bulldog's avatar

I'd classify Blaire as a woman for the reasons described in the post, but I'd use whatever pronouns Blaire preferred.

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