Vegetable Gremlin ⍼​👻Mar 3, 2023
consulting the talmud to loudly insist that historically there has only been eight genders
Show threadSean BalaMar 4, 2023

@vegetablegremlin This is so fascinating. I am always struck by the fact that so many of the things that "have always been" are not so. If people clinging to tightly to the idea of only two genders (that act in an exact way) just looked outside the US or their own society, cultures, or histories, they would be uncomfortably surprised at the non-universality of their own opinion.

#gender #sexuality

Show threadVegetable Gremlin ⍼​👻
@seanbala i mean at the risk of sounding like a boring nerd it is a fundamental problem with taxonomy: we are trying to give shape to a chaotic reality, the best we can do is rough approximations
Mar 4, 2023 at 3:32pmWeb
Show threadSean BalaMar 4, 2023
@vegetablegremlin Really fantastic point. The minute you try to name something. you already limit it.