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bigstrat2003last Monday at 6:38 PM3 repliesview on HN

That is only true if you're using an extremely idiosyncratic definition of gender. As far as 95% of English speakers are concerned, gender is defined by the body you possess.


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defrostlast Monday at 10:41 PM

As far as nigh on 100% of Bugis speakers are concerned there has always been five genders and they'll tell you the words in their language they have for them.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buginese_language

It appears to be a cultural construct.

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Terr_last Monday at 6:59 PM

Does that mean hundreds of years of English-speakers referring to sailing ship as "she" were all part of a conspiracy to hide that ships have jiggly bits? :p

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lovichlast Monday at 10:34 PM

The only real states of matter are solids, liquids, and gases. Everything else is just woke lunacy.

I am confident in this fact because I learned it in elementary school decades ago and it is impossible for humanity to discover new information that updates our world model. Every English speaker knows that “plasmas” and “Bose-Eisenstein condensates” are made up.

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