"Biologically male/female" - an outdated (and harmful) notion

Slade said:
I'm not sure where you're getting that from. I'm gay but I'm pretty sure if I were to cum inside a woman I could get her pregnant. I just have no inclination to do so because vaginas are gross.

As for infertile people, they're usually born one gender and later become infertile due to external causes. If someone fails to develop functioning genitals for whatever reason, that falls under defect.

The point I'm trying to make is that gender isn't a triangle or some other polygon between male/female/intersex/whatever. It's just a line between male and female, and a normally developed human falls on either end of that line. Some of the unlucky ones get plopped somewhere in the middle, but it doesn't mean they're some magical third gender.
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I thought in an earlier post you were comparing being born gay with a birth defect. Obviously, I misunderstood. But we're only thinking in the perspective of our culture. There are other cultures that consider there to be at least 6 sexes. They even celebrate hermaphrodites. I think the western culture likes to over-simplify things into black and white.
 
Right, but he (or she, not specified by the user) is talking about "Biological" sex, which boils down to just male and female.
 
Norik said:
Right, but he (or she, not specified by the user) is talking about "Biological" sex, which boils down to just male and female.
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I'm not convinced. If a person's biology doesn't make them gay, straight or in between what does?
 
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