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[–]voi_che_sapete 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Oh my fucking Christ. Yes, of course biology is complicated, sex markers are complicated, blah blah blah. However, REPRODUCTION IS A GODDAMN BINARY, AND REPRODUCTION IS WHAT MATTERS HERE.

Reproduction is a brutal process that severely disadvantages women and led to patriarchy. You cannot get around the realities of roughly half the species reproducing in a way that physically incapacitates them for 9 months and was historically enormously dangerous.

Yes, women who can't get pregnant are still classed as women. Society still organizes them according to what they perceive to be their reproductive class, and socializes them accordingly. I don't care if they secretly have twelve testicles instead of ovaries. The determining factor is still reproduction.

Some people get pregnant. Some people impregnate. It's a goddamn binary. The gender binary that formed in the wake of that binary is entirely invented bullshit, but it all hearkens back to society organizing itself according to reproduction.