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Re:Ignoring Boys' Emotional Needs Fuels Public Health Risks by stubybubs on Monday June 26, 2023 @02:58AM (#36476584)
You're talking about gametes and OP and GP are talking about dimorphism, which is generally considered the difference in forms not including gametes. It's a very specific word to do with size differences, body hair etc. That is absolutely a bimodal distribution. Even just in height it is not binary.

Sex does have several meanings, and form is one of them.

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Re:Ignoring Boys' Emotional Needs Fuels Public Health Risks by brigandish on Monday June 26, 2023 @05:02AM (#36477396)
Sexually dimorphic. That was the phrase used, was it not?
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Re:Ignoring Boys' Emotional Needs Fuels Public Health Risks by stubybubs on Monday June 26, 2023 @11:58AM (#36481487)
Yes, I just said dimorphism for short. My bad. What I said still stands, sexual dimorphism is the non-gamete differences between sexes.
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Re:Ignoring Boys' Emotional Needs Fuels Public Health Risks by brigandish on Monday June 26, 2023 @07:21PM (#36487159)
The subject is anisogamety, not sexual dimorphism. One may affect the other but they are not synonyms.
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