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[–]TurkishCoffee 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I'll confess i couldn't make myself read that all the way through, but i don't think your friend understands what the phrase "bimodal distribution" means as a mathematical term in the freaking slightest.

Chromosomal sex is bimodal to the point of damn near being binary. Biological sex, excluding how one identifies or feels, is bimodal less extremely so than chromosomal but still pretty damn bimodal. THe percentages of people who do not solidly fall into easily recognized categories of male/female in sum total, are small. extant. but small.

Sexism speaking bimodally? Someone saw a big word they want to use. Actually someone likes to use a lot of woke words. And if blackness is like transness....y'know i'm not even gonna go there because we all know it's not the same thing but damned if they don't open up that rats nest of race isn't well defined either so why are transracial individuals wrong? they're a tiny number too. I'm sure they care about that (i wouldn't use that argument, it'll get you nowhere and come off as being hurtful, but they're being stupid).

[–]Skipdip[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Thanks for your perspective. So you think I should cut the transracial analogy? It can be inflammatory but I also think it communicated the concept pretty well by seeing it in another context.

[–]TurkishCoffee 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

you know your friend better than I do. i know if any of the people i know spouted such nonsense, and then I brought it up, it'd just get stonewalled and met with absolute insistence its not the same and now i'm just a racist they wont listen to.

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

Considering this exact thing happened to me, yea

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

You are probably right actually. I am glad that I didn’t impusivle send it to her. I think I need to stop processessing stuff externally (not within my fellow affionados) because I am very crude in how I am presenting this to people.