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(12-31-2021, 12:45 AM)kruddler link Wrote:Continuing down the numbers theme for a minute, and i hope you can follow me, but to me its less about binary, and more about real vs imaginary numbers.
Real numbers are the numbers we all know and love and use everyday.
Imaginary numbers don't exist, but we made them up to help us work things out and describe things in a simpler way.
Perhaps being 'non-binary' falls instead on the imaginary number scale. That is, it serves a specific purpose but is largely irrelevant to everyday use. I do follow and it's a fair analogy imho.. I don't
want to see Darcy or any other young or old person as irrelevant but you are right calling it imaginary being non gender imo.
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Re the Mouncy issue ... that's where the problem starts tolerating this rubbish
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Well, maybe we should just drop the womens aspects of sports and revert to let the strongest competitor man or woman win?
We'd save a bomb on prize money.
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Maybe it's my age but I am struggling to keep up with current day definitions of sex and gender, so I would appreciate some help.
In looking at a definition of the "I" in LGBTQIA+, it says in part: "When an intersex person is old enough to choose a gender identity, they can choose to identify as male, female, or a combination."
Is non-binary covered by this definition, or is it a sub-set of one of the other letters?
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12-31-2021, 04:48 AM
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Just call them quantum and we'll be all square!
btw., What are "they, them or it" going to do when this question is posed to a quantum computer, a device specifically design to answer non-binary questions?
It's not like they invented the term, but they may have hijacked it!
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(12-31-2021, 12:45 AM)kruddler date Wrote:Perhaps being 'non-binary' falls instead on the imaginary number scale. That is, it serves a specific purpose but is largely irrelevant to everyday use. I'd like to challenge this assertion on a technical level, pretty much every bit of modern life taken for granted exists because of imaginary or complex numbers!
In this regard, is a self-declaration of a non-binary identification being a touch grandiose?
Yes, I'm being mischievous, but me being free and allowed to do that forms part of my point, I can issue labels too!
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I think the demographic on this site is right in the WTF wheelhouse!! (Including me!!)
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(12-31-2021, 04:40 AM)Macca37 link Wrote:Maybe it's my age but I am struggling to keep up with current day definitions of sex and gender, so I would appreciate some help.
In looking at a definition of the "I" in LGBTQIA+, it says in part: "When an intersex person is old enough to choose a gender identity, they can choose to identify as male, female, or a combination."
Is non-binary covered by this definition, or is it a sub-set of one of the other letters? If the waters weren't muddy enough...
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/21/style...guage.html
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The funny thing about all this is that it wouldn't even rate a thread or a mention except for the fact that Darcy is a prominent figure in the Carlton women's AFL team.
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(12-31-2021, 07:38 AM)Lods link Wrote:The funny thing about all this is that it wouldn't even rate a thread or a mention except for the fact that Darcy is a prominent figure in the Carlton women's AFL team. Not entirely true. I made a thread about Ellen/Elliot Page when that occured. Big enough names, get mentioned.
But yes, this specific one was because its a carlton player.
Same would occur when the first mens player actually comes out of the closet publicly. I suspect we all know someone who is gay and its not entirely big news....unless its the 'first'.
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