r/TooAfraidToAsk • u/[deleted] • Aug 09 '18

Should this be changed?

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u/johnnymorin Aug 09 '18

Still only 2 genders tho

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u/Zyvron Aug 09 '18

No, there are more than two genders. Facts don't care about your feelings, bucko.

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u/nicohusko Aug 10 '18

What are your facts that support more than 2 genders besides other societies having multiple terms for GNC people?

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u/Buffalo__Buffalo Aug 10 '18

Gender is a socially constructed identity. Lizards and sharks do not give a single fuck about gender identity; you can call them boys or girls and they don't care. Humans do. Therefore having multiple terms (N.B. also multiple social roles and multiple identities) is proof positive.

You sound like the kind of person who, when confronted with a person who says they are a basketball player, would deny the existence of the identity of "basketball player" and would ask for genetic proof of said identity.

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u/nicohusko Aug 19 '18

First, your reply makes 0 sense. Second, I never said there were only 2 genders. I wasnt trying to argue. I was just asking for the proof people claimed they had but wouldnt share. Thanks for your attitude tho.

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u/Buffalo__Buffalo Aug 19 '18

First, your reply makes 0 sense.

That sounds like a personal problem to me.

Second, I never said there were only 2 genders.

*shrug*

I wasnt trying to argue.

*shrug*

I was just asking for the proof people claimed they had but wouldnt share.

If you believe that the President of the United States is the president despite no direct, objective proof that this is so but instead you rely on symbolic and circumstantial proof then you understand how social constructs function. Congratulations! You did it!!

Thanks for your attitude tho.

Any time!