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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Yeeaahhhhh except that it's not meant to be taken literally. It's just a metaphor for how different men's and women's behaviors can be. Who knows whether on some other planet with humanoid life forms, they will have genders of male or female or anything remotely similar to what we know on earth. It would be funny to see what their idea of "porn" is. Especially if their genders and genitals are vastly different from our own, we'll probably not see their pornography as being pornographic or obscene at all, just funny-looking.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Toms-of-Finlandians are from Uranus.

And I pronounce it urine-US.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

I think a lot of this joke refers to the Roman god Mars, and the Roman Goddess Venus, more than it does the planetary bodies. Roman and Greek mythology both have a lot of gender fuckery, so I think it’s pretty appropriate.

That bing AI thing says there’s somewhere around 65 to 70 named Roman deities, so I’m gonna make a call and say that there are probably 69 genders.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I thought it was because Venus spins in the opposite direction from most others planets.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The spectrum is now divided in to precisely 69 individual genders. With men at one end and women at the other.

Assuming gender follows a normal distribution, most people are binary, falling only slightly one way or the other

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

I would expect "men" and "women" to be like 3σ from the center, allowing for some other genders that are even more extreme but rare

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I wonder if we could make some projections here, because based on the fact that women are from Venus and men from mars, it appears that we are gaining letters as the planet gets closer to the sun. As there is one planet (earth) between Venus and mars, we could reasonably extrapolate that the gender from earth should be called ‘omen’ - that’s simple logic. The next question is what letter to we add to find out which gender is from mercury?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

At least that way we can be reasonably sure that en are from Jupiter

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Actually are we going to end up with ‘minus’ letters I think we are ‘n’ are from Saturn and ‘ ‘ are from Neptune - who is from Uranus?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I've never actually bothered to find out what that book was actually trying to claim, so I had a bit of a lol at the description of that episode:

In 1992 a yoga instructor with a distance-learning PhD had the courage to ask: "Are women not getting help around the house because they're using the wrong modal verb?"

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Boys are from Mars,

Girls are from Venus,

You've got a yumyum,

I've got a penis.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Found Linda.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Only one known person has encountered all of them.

Your mom.

Sex encounters.

Because she is promiscuous.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yo mama stepped off the curb and got stuck. She’s also massive and warps space time causing light to bend around dat azz.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Her belt size is measured in AUs

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Shoot, she wears a Kuiper belt

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Orion's belt was too small.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 8 months ago (4 children)

And I, as a front end developer, have to put all of those on this drop down list.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Gender:

  • Male
  • Female
  • Other
  • None
  • False
  • Undefined
  • Null
  • Nil
  • [Object object]
  • 🚹 (The gender formerly known as male.)
  • November
  • 98°
  • Yes, please

[ Click here if you are a conservative and only wish to see male/female ]

In all seriousness though, this is what I did for my contact app (it’s a combobox, so you can type whatever you want in there or pick from the dropdown):

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Tbh gender setting should be like a color picker for rbg

This does limit the amount of genders to 1,073,741,824 if using 30bit rbg, but I'm willing to accept that compromise until someone lists more

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Then soon we will need to update the meatcolorspace to support alpha\ transparency channels.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Ruth Bader Ginsburg only made it to 87, I don't think you need to go up to 30 bits for that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a fucking amateur (I don't know who they are).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Best to put them in an autocomplete dropdown. My gender is xerxes 1.18373772918474920102738172636634, not to be confused with xerxes 1.18373772918474920402738172636634

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What about a free text field or just don't ask people about their gender?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Sometimes you have to ask for it. E.g. I work in the life insurance business and we need to know the gender for policy calculation.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Wouldn’t birth sex be more useful in that context than gender?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Nope. I don't know exactly why but it seems that e.g. a trans man is more likely to die in a stupid accident like driving a motorcycle without a helmet at 200km/h and vice versa. It isn't much of a medicine aspect and more of a lifestyle one.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

You could have just said "Nope. Trans men are rad"

Why use many word when few do

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Oh ok. Yeah, that makes sense.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Ok, but isn't that just to make vague generalizations about someone based on their gender?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

That is the whole insurance business. It is nothing but a bet if you look at it by a single policy. E.g. your insurance bets you'll probably die at 70, so when you hit 71 you paid more than you get when you die. Your insurance wins. But when you die at 55 you "win" the bet. But because there isn't just one but thousands of policies those bets aren't bets anymore, they're nothing but statistics. And one part is keeping track and calculating how old people born in year xy, in country ... with the gender zxy are going to be.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

They need to know if you're more likely to skijump into volcano or die from pregnancy to maximize profita

[–] [email protected] 45 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)
Gender

⚫ Female
⚫ Male
🔘 Gliese 436 b

But on a more serious note, if you actually need to know the user's gender, a perfectly good set of options could be eg.

  • female
  • male
  • other
  • would rather not say
[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

At that point why have it in the first place?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I’m a fan of “male” “female” “‘);DROP TABLE gender;—“ myself

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

What have things come to that we are now gendering poor little Bobby Tables?