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It's All Politics
Asking about gender issues, point blank.
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[–]OrionBlastar 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 2 years ago (7 children)
Frogs can change genders with the right chemicals: https://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2002/04/16/531726.htm
People can change genders with the right hormone treatments and operations.
[–]Flicksener 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun - 2 years ago (6 children)
No they can't.
1) Unlike these frogs, women can't develop testes and men can't develop ovaries, no matter how many treatments and operations they undergo.
2) These frogs developed hermaphroditic (both genders) characteristics as a result of being exposed to a harmful poison, they didn't change from one gender into another willy nilly. This is a deformity, not a treatment, and likely led to many health issues and untimely deaths for the poor frogs. It's not a good thing.
And 3) humans are not frogs. Different species, entirely different biology.
Please, for the love of god, learn some science, specifically about biology.
[–]OrionBlastar 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 2 years ago (5 children)
So you are saying that gender is not a social construct?
[–]jet199 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun - 2 years ago* (3 children)
You are using the word gender in 2 ways to confuse the issue, to mean both biological sex and social sex roles.
You could say social sex roles are a social construct but biological sex is real and observable by every person (and animal).
Biological sex in humans or any mammal can not be changed.
The fact you have to look at frogs for an example shows how far off the possibility of sex change is in humans.
[–]Trajan 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 2 years ago* (2 children)
I wouldn't even concede that point concerning sex roles. Roles are so consistent across cultures, polarisation only increasing as equality increases, it seems reasonable to claim that biology is by far the biggest factor.
Where we go see shifts towards homogenisation of sex roles tends to be as a result of technology (e.g. birth control, weapons, mechanisation).
[–]jet199 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun - 2 years ago (1 child)
By roles I would mean things like wearing dresses or trousers not instinctive behaviour like fighting or caring.
[–]Trajan 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 2 years ago (0 children)
Ah, fully agree there. Thanks.
[–]iamonlyoneman 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun - 2 years ago (0 children)
Gender and sex are synonymous and immutable. Gender roles are a social construct.
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