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Re:The Provocations of Camille Paglia by YorkshireSeason on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @09:33AM (#20819573)
The paper "The Five Sexes, Revisited" which you can find at [1], is at best an essay on gender and recent changes in gender-based legislation, at worst badly written political activism, but most certainly not in the slightest a scientific investigation into the biology of reproduction. The latter is what those who criticise modern conceptions of gender have in mind.

[1] https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/21a4/4d10b40354a974c8d1d3a9...

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Re:The Provocations of Camille Paglia by soudiere on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @11:40PM (#20826464)
I referenced the original 1993 essay "The Five Sexes"

You have referenced the 2000 essay, "The Five Sexes, Revisited"

No on claimed it was a scientific investigation, I quoted the full text of the issue I was discussing in a previous comment.

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Re:The Provocations of Camille Paglia by YorkshireSeason on Thursday August 29, 2019 @08:48AM (#20828992)
I replied to "jboynyc" uncritical remarks about "The Five Sexes, Revisited", as if "The Five Sexes, Revisited" mitigated the weaknesses of Fausto-Sterling's work.
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Re:The Provocations of Camille Paglia by soudiere on Friday August 30, 2019 @07:46AM (#20837630)
Ah apologies, yes her revisiting of the original paper does not address many of the issues raised.
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