• nifty
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    3113 days ago

    Saying gender is binary is like saying there are only two types of apples, red and green.

    • OfCourseNot
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      3013 days ago

      There are two types of apples, red apples and non-red apples. D’ya see? Everything in the universe either is a banana or it is not, all is binary.

          • @[email protected]
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            612 days ago

            There are two types of apples, red apples and non-red apples.

            Is what the other person said. Paralels happen in certain game/sport categorizations, with women being a defined grouping, and all else (including women) being put into the open/other category.

              • @[email protected]
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                912 days ago

                https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Blitz_Chess_Championship_2024

                nope.

                The goal is to improve the women’s experience and make it more feasable as a career choice for the best women. Sometimes it gets controversial, even among women, but it’s a noble idea until women and men are evenly represented in top tournaments.

                Notable female players that reached near the level of the top men include Judit Polgar (Peak ranking : 8th worldwide) and Hou Yifan (Peak ranking 55th worldwide).

                There is no physical gender/sex/whatever based reason why women underperform compared to men, so until societal/environmental factors change, trying to enable more women to reach higher levels with incentives seems good. They are not barred from the open category (which people mistakenly call “mens’” sometimes) , so they can choose which tourney they attend. Some “open” (I’ve now realised open can have two meanings, I am only referring to tourneys that can be played by any gender, not the opposite of invite based) tourneys even make a point to request the female world champ participate.

                I’ve written lots about this in the past, but don’t have much time now

        • @[email protected]
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          1112 days ago

          Quantum physics doesn’t exist, it is invented by physics professors to sell you more quants

        • OfCourseNot
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          1112 days ago

          Something is in a quantum superposition state or it isn’t, absolute binariness.

        • @[email protected]
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          19 days ago

          just fyi that’s kinda the worst comparison you can make: The whole point of quantum physics is that it revolves around quanta, discrete states with no continuum between them. Best case it implies that there are a lot of genders, but it still implies each gender is its own distinct thing completely different from the other ones.

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      19 days ago

      because you mention apples i’m physically forced to share this trivia; There are two types of apple: Regular ones, and dessert ones. We’re used to dessert apples, ones that are sweet enough to just take a bite out of. For most of history we only really had normal apples, which taste like shit and are basically only usable for cider and using in cooking.