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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2013-07-10 06:42 pm

[ SECRET POST #2381 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2381 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Horrible Histories]


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03.
[Galileo, Strawberry Night]


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[Star Trek]


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[Sphere]


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06.
[Malcom Tucker (played by Peter Capaldi) in The Thick of It]


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[Coupling]


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[ROM Spaceknight]


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[Avengers]


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10.
[My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic]


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[Lizzie Bennet Diaries]












Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 023 secrets from Secret Submission Post #340.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 1 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

(frozen comment) Re: Gender/Sexuality spectrums

(Anonymous) 2013-07-11 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
I didn't say it wasn't a social construct, so I'm afraid I've lost the flow of the conversation here. All I have to offer is that as-is, in present day, within the frame of "the entire world," the vast majority of human beings will see the male-female binary as standard. I don't think I'm wrong about that.

And please do not strawman me, which you are doing! Nowhere did I say that every gender identity has have its own special category and that everyone must know every term. The question I raised was where agender people fit into this three-part organization system of OP's. If OP must categorize, which they actively did on their own, then their system can have its flaws, one of which I was pointing out! And nobody so far has given me an answer to that question; I would consider "agender people do not exist for realsies" as a rationale for that system, but have not even been given that.

(frozen comment) Re: Gender/Sexuality spectrums

(Anonymous) 2013-07-11 03:55 am (UTC)(link)
There is NO such thing as agender. You have a damn sex. If you were to have a blood test done, it would either say FEMALE or MALE. You can pretend you're a magical unicorn species that has a ken doll's lower half for genitals all you want, but at the end of the day your DNA proves otherwise.

(frozen comment) Re: Gender/Sexuality spectrums

(Anonymous) 2013-07-11 04:02 am (UTC)(link)
Please hold the vitriol! There's no need to be angry about this.

"There is NO such thing as agender. You have a damn sex."

Are you saying gender and sex are the same thing, then? Just to be clear.

(frozen comment) Re: Gender/Sexuality spectrums

(Anonymous) 2013-07-11 09:03 am (UTC)(link)
What do you think about people with Androgen insensitivity syndrome? They're born with a female body and grow up believing themselves to be perfectly regular women. Then one day, alarmed by the fact they've never had a period despite being in their late teens, they go to a doctor, have tests done and find out that their DNA is that of a male. Would you go up to them and say "you may want to be a woman, but you're REALLY a MAN, your DNA proves it!"?
thene: PROTIP do not fuck with Minette (minette)

(frozen comment) Re: Gender/Sexuality spectrums

[personal profile] thene 2013-07-11 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
The question I raised was where agender people fit into this three-part organization system of OP's.

No one can answer that question except OP, can they? I sure can't. At this point I suspect you're taking OP too seriously.

I wasn't strawmanning you - I didn't think you were arguing for endless categorisation, only that you were asking me to choose between those two extremes for some abstract reason. OP's proposal never made sense in the first place because it was about cissexuality, not gender.

(frozen comment) Re: Gender/Sexuality spectrums

(Anonymous) 2013-07-11 04:10 am (UTC)(link)
http://fandomsecrets.dreamwidth.org/837895.html?thread=669255943#cmt669255943

They did, right above you! This explains quite a bit and I think I understand their system now.

Only two sexes exist, male and female.

People are whatever they are physically, according to their DNA.

Intersex people are both sexes, as shown in their DNA and not in their outward appearance.

Anybody who is trans is physically one thing but "is making an effort" or "wants" to be the other, if I am guessing correctly, as their DNA will not change and they will be physically female or male forever regardless of how they physically appear, as it is DNA that matters.

Ironically this doesn't sound all too different from what most people already go by, even though OP made it sound like it was progressive by adding trans and intersex in there. I find myself a little disappointed it wasn't more interesting.

(frozen comment) Re: Gender/Sexuality spectrums

(Anonymous) 2013-07-11 04:13 am (UTC)(link)
Two base* sexes. I forgot a word!
thene: PROTIP do not fuck with Minette (minette)

(frozen comment) Re: Gender/Sexuality spectrums

[personal profile] thene 2013-07-11 04:16 am (UTC)(link)
wtffffffffffff. So can you be agender if you have Turner syndrome, maybe?

(frozen comment) Re: Gender/Sexuality spectrums

(Anonymous) 2013-07-11 04:26 am (UTC)(link)
I suppose? They state in a thread further down that everyone is either male or female and that is a fact, so...

It's basic sex-binarism-by-DNA pretending to be inclusive by shoehorning intersex (genetic anomalies who cannot be male or female and must necessarily be both) and trans people (who swap between the two binary points only) into peripheral roles around the basic male/female system and denying the legitimacy of genderqueer and agender identities, which they have a obvious disdain for. Yay! Puzzle solved.

(frozen comment) Re: Gender/Sexuality spectrums

(Anonymous) 2013-07-11 05:01 am (UTC)(link)
Trans people have a mental disorder, that doesn't change their gender though

(frozen comment) Re: Gender/Sexuality spectrums

(Anonymous) 2013-07-11 06:20 am (UTC)(link)
OK, no. The person you link to screaming about DNA is not me, the person you first replied to.

But if you want it plain, fine. I do believe that there's male, there's female, there's transmale and transfemale and somewhere exists intersex in a place that maybe I don't fully understand. Everything else is bullshit snowflaky "make me feel all special for not being exactly like everybody else." It's the demisexuality of gender and sex.

Clear enough?

(frozen comment) Re: Gender/Sexuality spectrums

(Anonymous) 2013-07-11 07:28 am (UTC)(link)
Ohgod, Demisexuality. I kind of forgot that bullcrap existed, lol