• nifty@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Saying gender is binary is like saying there are only two types of apples, red and green.

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      3 months ago

      There are two types of apples, red apples and non-red apples. D’ya see? Everything in the universe either is a banana or it is not, all is binary.

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          3 months ago

          just fyi that’s kinda the worst comparison you can make: The whole point of quantum physics is that it revolves around quanta, discrete states with no continuum between them. Best case it implies that there are a lot of genders, but it still implies each gender is its own distinct thing completely different from the other ones.

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      3 months ago

      because you mention apples i’m physically forced to share this trivia; There are two types of apple: Regular ones, and dessert ones. We’re used to dessert apples, ones that are sweet enough to just take a bite out of. For most of history we only really had normal apples, which taste like shit and are basically only usable for cider and using in cooking.