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[–]Jizera 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Watch videos in this YouTube channel Paradox Institute. But this is my simple explanation:

  • Sex categories (man, woman, male, female) have meaning only related to reproduction. We differentiate between men and women because there are two very different roles in reproduction. If there was only one identical role in reproduction we would not distinguish between human beings based on a role in reproduction, because it would be impossible.

  • These categories are notions, concepts in our brain reflecting phenomena observable in the real world: There are the two roles, one requires ability to produce speciall cells called ova (singular ovum) or egg cells, the other requires ability to produce sperms.

  • Even before people knew in detail the mechanism of reproduction they were able to differentiate between men and women, because the ability to realize the different roles is manifeseted in very significant differences in various structures of the body and corresponding functions and behaviour. And we also need such differentiation, because ability of reproduction is the most important function of any live species and it impacts principally all life of all live things, including those individuals who don't have a direct role in reproduction, like worker bees, or those who are not able to reproduce because of some disorder. Even now in this crazy time we need this differentiation and therfore some idiots create various absurd neologisms like menstruators or uterus owners.

  • Sex categories don't reflect disorders which can cause inability to reproduce. But we include individuals in sex categories based on their body features, because, as you can learn in the videos of the channel linked above, each human individual is either male or female, only in some individuals full development of male or female functions and corresponding body structures failed, because of some genetic or developmental failures. Even so called intersexuals are either males or females and not "something in between". SEX IS STRICTLY BINARY. But because of complexity of human body and its functions, some functions can be absent or in conflict with sex of the individual.

  • Sex categories also don't reflect mental states or individual fate which can cause that some individuals don't realize their ability to reproduce.