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26 Post author: Multiheaded 25 January 2012 05:43PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 25 January 2012 11:50:04PM 9 points [-]

Well that changes things.

And yes that is disturbing.

Comment author: Nick_Tarleton 26 January 2012 05:52:12AM *  9 points [-]

... though it's worth keeping in mind that "the details of how gender works are made up" is still true to a pretty large extent (≥ the extent to which cross-cultural variation in gender exists); it's just that, like all culture, they're made up in a way generated/constrained by primate behavior, which has a lot of sex-dependence.

Comment author: [deleted] 26 January 2012 07:01:09PM 2 points [-]

yes. I still think gender is a stupid idea and has large components of made-upness.

Comment author: thomblake 26 January 2012 07:38:05PM 1 point [-]

Ten times agreed.