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RE: Sex Differences: Check out the gonads on that one!
Very interstingand informative, but I feel like I missed the “punch line”... where is your conclusion? Not the actual punchlines - all the humor I get haha.
the scrotum (ball-sack, in French)
Lmao don’t make me google this...
from Greek ορμώ (or-MAW)
what kinda Greek pronunciation is that in parenthesis?
Should it not be: ohrr-MOH ? I’m no linguist just wondering.
Well this is part of a series, and the conclusion from last post (the first in the series) was that you can't find sex 100% in the chromosomes (XX is normally female, but there are XX males, etc.) This time the conclusion is that you can't 100% find sex in the gonads, and you can't find sex 100% in the hormones. So far, there's no single test that will determine, for all people on earth, which sex they belong to.
But John Money came up with multiple criteria for this reason. He has (more or less) 8 criteria. Chromosomes, gonads, and hormones, are 3 of them. If most of the 8 fall into one camp, say male, he'd say you're a male. But there's other things coming up in future posts: like can people's brains be of one sex and the rest of their bodies of another?! Some research suggest they can!
So the overall conclusion, if there's any, so far, seems to be that sex, much like gender, exists along a continuum, it's not a binary male/female, and all things can happen.
If MOH is pronounced like the 'mo' in 'motion' then that's wrong! It should be 'mo' like in 'mother' like a Scottish person would pronounce it (I think).
or (or ohrr) should be pronounced with a hard rhotic 'r', but I thought indicating that was unnecessary info for the average reader )
I'm no linguist either, just Greek :D
Thanks for the conclusion. Very helpful. I need simple breakdowns most of the time. Or to regurgitate info for me to understand it.
More thoughts:
If we consider all of these terms in different contexts: social, cultural, scientific, etc... then what someone is biologically will differ than what they are considered socially, etc. (Obviously right?)
Also if we look at all of these terms as labels with a specific man-made definition, then it almost makes them irrelevant. Until a need arises for humans to be categorized.
I’m ignoring the purely objective (at times) and potentially subconscious human need to find meaning in things, label them, and associate them with something:
What is thunder and lightning?
Where is the edge of the world?
Why does the apple fall from the tree?
As for the Greek phonetics, it also depends on the readers comprehension and pronunciation of the language translated into, this case being English. So perception plays a role here. But ultimately It was just my trivial thought commentary translated into a reply.
:)
Looking forward to your next post!
Yes, which is why I'll be treating the social construction of sex (i.e. gender) as well in this series at some point.
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Humans are so fucked up