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Brammymiami's avatar

XX - that is the definition. Anything else is doublespeak designed to try to convince the population that up is down and day is night. If you believe them on this - they can convince you of anything (such as the senile, mumbling, squinting old man is actually running the US and doing a wonderful job!)

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Steven N.'s avatar

Woman - Adult human female.

ItтАЩs elegant in its simplicity.

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Wayne's avatar

The XX definition leads to the тАЬsex is a spectrumтАЭ because of anomalies in human development and the wider animal world. The male/female dichotomy depends on the size of reproduction cells. Females have large gametes and males have small gametes. For humans around 100K to 1. All sexually reproducing life has evolved the same solution, one sex has large gametes, the other sex has small gametes. We define the side with large gametes as female, the other as male. Even sexually reproducing plants have the same solution. Large female seeds and small male pollen. Using the XX approach will lead you into a sophist maze created by gender theorists. IMHO

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Brammymiami's avatar

We are humans, not plants. For the vast majority of humans, we are XX or XY. If anything other than that, it is classified as an illness. There are exceptions to every rule, but that does not negate the rule.

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Wayne's avatar

I agree everything. BUT, using XX XY dichotomy leads to unnecessary complications. Look at the now famous apologetic for sex as a spectrum https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-redefined-the-idea-of-2-sexes-is-overly-simplistic1/#. Notice how the author avoids the actual definition of sex by gamete size in order to obfuscate the issue. IтАЩm only offering what I think is a better definition of sex.

I have to point out, as a matter of logic, not all rules have exceptions and exceptions do negate rules. Rules are not rules if they have exceptions.

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jt's avatar

TYTY. That's scientifically true. But movements don't flourish under the scrutiny science would demand.

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DarkWhite's avatar

And yet the one thing that is an ACTUAL spectrum -- race -- is being treated as some non-debatable quantity graven in stone. o_O

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jt's avatar

Not in advertising, but been told I have a flair. "XX" is as simple as branding can get, in any color Ya want, with any colored background. Just IMHO (In My Humble Opinion).

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