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Re:The Full 10-Page Anti-Diversity Screed Circulating Intern... by noddy1 on Saturday August 05, 2017 @07:38PM (#14938670)
Anyone who knows anything about biology or genetics knows that it is absurd that there would be zero phenotypic difference between males and females. There are simply different factors driving each gender's reproductive success, and therefore the XX and XY chromosomal difference will push different traits.

Sociology and anthropology depts can't handle this because they aren't interested in science.

Re:The Full 10-Page Anti-Diversity Screed Circulating Intern... by door on Saturday August 05, 2017 @07:56PM (#14938759)
both "myths of gender" and "delusions of gender" were written by scientists.

the fact that you still think of sex as a binary difference between xx and xy shows how far outdated your ideas about the science of sex differences are. even "biological sex" (not even gender) is a spectrum influenced by a variety of different factors

Re:The Full 10-Page Anti-Diversity Screed Circulating Intern... by SamReidHughes on Saturday August 05, 2017 @08:13PM (#14938841)
Sex is in fact a binary difference, transgender folk are a tiny proportion of the population.
Re:The Full 10-Page Anti-Diversity Screed Circulating Intern... by Pulcinella on Saturday August 05, 2017 @10:32PM (#14939343)
"Truth values are in fact a binary difference, fuzzy logic is a tiny portion of mathematics."

"Light switches are in fact a binary difference, dimmer switches are a small portion of all switches."

"Life is in fact a binary difference, brain death patients are a tiny portion of all patients."

Re:The Full 10-Page Anti-Diversity Screed Circulating Intern... by tbrownaw on Sunday August 06, 2017 @12:16AM (#14939633)
"Truth values are in fact a binary difference, fuzzy logic is a tiny portion of mathematics."

Metastable states[0] are a tiny portion of all logic values. They exist and are inherently unavoidable, but somehow massively complicated systems that fundamentally rely on the assumption that values are either 0 or 1 still work.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metastability_in_electronics

Re:The Full 10-Page Anti-Diversity Screed Circulating Intern... by SamReidHughes on Saturday August 05, 2017 @10:51PM (#14939414)
In the context of there being measurable differences between the sets of males and females, 99% is binary enough.
Re:The Full 10-Page Anti-Diversity Screed Circulating Intern... by Pulcinella on Saturday August 05, 2017 @11:13PM (#14939476)
"99% server uptime is enough!"
Re:The Full 10-Page Anti-Diversity Screed Circulating Intern... by LyndsySimon on Sunday August 06, 2017 @10:19AM (#14941419)
Indeed - we design systems to operate under the expectation that services are available. We handle their not being available as an exceptional case.

This seems analogous; we should design social structures (or allow social structures to emerge) that assume that individuals are male or female, but which handle the exceptional case of non-cisgendered individuals. Just like a software system that doesn't handle exceptions gracefully, a social system that lacks provisions for these is fundamentally flawed and can fail unexpectedly and potentially catastrophically.

Re:The Full 10-Page Anti-Diversity Screed Circulating Intern... by gspetr on Monday August 07, 2017 @11:32PM (#14953872)
Catastrophically how?

Society also lacks "provisions" for violent criminals[0] but it still handles them and is yet to fail catastrophically.

[0] I'm not equating these two categories of people, merely illustrating that your example of comparing software exceptions to people is deeply flawed.

Re:The Full 10-Page Anti-Diversity Screed Circulating Intern... by door on Saturday August 05, 2017 @08:25PM (#14938907)
Re:The Full 10-Page Anti-Diversity Screed Circulating Intern... by SamReidHughes on Saturday August 05, 2017 @08:54PM (#14939037)
The page you linked gives the proportion 1/100. Is there something I'm missing?