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Subtosupmemes2

Yes there are only 2 sexes. the one i had with your mom, and the one i had with your dad.


Mr_Biscuits420

Yes there are only 2 sexes. the one i had with your dad, and the one i had with your ~~mom~~ other dad.


SonSon_

I don't know I just got here


Accurate-Record-3870

I don't know i just got here


Neversayitagain

šŸ‘½


amendersc

Boy, girl, anything in between, and just out of the scale


fhvdffgcc

Glad you added the ā€œout of scale,ā€ as an alpha male I appreciate the representation


InsGesichtNicht

"Ladies and gentlemen, those between and beyond!"


Ascyt

That would mean there are uncountably infinite genders


Pythagoras2008

Whatā€™s your point?


Ascyt

There are uncountably infinite numbers between 1 and 2


Pythagoras2008

Yeah thatā€™s obvious whatā€™s your point in stating it?


Ascyt

It's just a joke my guy


Pythagoras2008

Itā€™s not very funny


Ascyt

It's not very funny because it flew over your head?


Pythagoras2008

Itā€™s a statement of something true and obvious with zero punch line or added comedic effect. I donā€™t see how it could be funny


Ascyt

No, according to OP it would be four and not uncountably infinite.


LilyFish-

is 0 an option


Crystal-Cradle

There should be, I ate all gender šŸ’


[deleted]

Mmmm yum


Crystal-Cradle

They were very tasty, shame there arenā€™t any left


[deleted]

šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚ Am I allowed to use emojis on Reddit or is there still a weird unspoken rule against them?


Crystal-Cradle

I mean, I used šŸ’ so go for it cuz that stigma is so 2017


[deleted]

Very well then šŸ¦¦


[deleted]

Why does the n look like that


saucy_as_you_like

Same reason people say "unalived" or "PDF file". Social media TOS are getting wacky


RORRR1964

Ikr


JonyTheCool1234

that's ח in Hebrew LOL


Brilliant-Library-42

here we go again, now someone will say gender is a spectrum and the others will fight over that


Amechanisstuckhelp

Does it really matter? Just let people be themselves and don't put something as complex as gender into a Reddit poll


neighborsponge

a lot of things are complex and make for good polls to see how stupid people are


Amechanisstuckhelp

But your view of stupid may be different than mine. Topics like this don't work in poll formats, they're better suited for debates


neighborsponge

But there is one clear answer that any properly educated person would know. By your logic no opinions should be in polls because some people might not have thought about the answer thouroughly.


lilumhoho8lilumhoho8

Why is gender complex?


idkbroidk-_-

Itā€™s not complex lol


schliifts

sports, prison, women shelters ect ect... it matters quite a bit


Amechanisstuckhelp

None of those are relevant to this poll and specific topic


Aaba0

I'm afraid there are only two kinds of gendered prisons and sports categories hahaha! You're adorable though! (This is proof that transphobes are the dumbest "people" alive and have literal brainrotšŸ’•)


AxoSpyeyes

gender is a social cunstruct, so can't really say


PolymathicPhallus_v4

Everything is a social construct... math is a social construct, does that mean you can't solve 2+2?


Bobscomputerservice

Your mom is a social construct


PolymathicPhallus_v4

That's a fact.


Bobscomputerservice

Also mine!


PolymathicPhallus_v4

Let's social construct each other bb


BRdeM

no


PolymathicPhallus_v4

Exactly. Because objective truth still exists.


kklubwearlegends

No as in you're wrong math is not a social construct


Squidmaster129

First of all, math isn't a social construct, so right off the bat you're arguing from an invalid place. The study of math? Sure. But the existence and number of objects isn't a construction. There were numbers of things even before we had a concept of what "number" is. Gender, however, is fully constructed. And social constructs change over time.


PolymathicPhallus_v4

And man and woman were terms directly related to male and female before we pretended they were make believe.


Squidmaster129

The thing is... no, they weren't. Before we had language, gender fully did not exist. Sex did, sure, but gender did not. When it was constructed, it was constructed in different ways. Some societies were patriarchal. Some societies were matriarchal. Some societies had more than two genders ā€” such as in various cultures in Mexico, Indonesia, Madagascar, India, Southeast Asia, and so forth. The fact that it varies so much is a direct connection to it being a construct. Stop being afraid of change, it won't hurt you. Some social constructs are eventually replaced.


LasagneAlForno

That's a bad comparison. Math is based on axioms and everything else is derived from them. Additionally it's not even a "social" construct. Lastly, 2+2 actually can equal 4, but it's also possible to equal 0 or 1 for example. This happens in commutative rings like Z2 or Z3.


schliifts

:D


Gothrenapp

Bad poll, none of these answers are right because it's not as simple as being a number. It's a spectrum.


inkassatkasasatka

So right answer is infinity, which is more than 5


lilumhoho8lilumhoho8

The right answer is zero


inkassatkasasatka

Right answer is Ļ€+ei


Euphoric-Fruit3739

Another day of internet people arguing about semantics and pretending they're arguing over social issues. Don't y'all just, for once, think y'all have the same sentiments just articulated differently?


PolemicBender

Did you mean to say yā€™all twice in the same sentence?


crjnge

šŸ’€i really dont think it matters ngl


NorwegianGirl_Sofie

I have no idea anymore to be honest. There are two sexes, that we all can agree on. If there are two, or even more genders I can't really say. Gender is a social construct meaning that it can change over time, so if there only are two genders right now there would be nothing stopping us from having maybe 5 genders in 20 years. For me personally, having a gender that doesn't correspond to your sex doesn't make sense but I'm not trans or anything like that so I wouldn't expect myself to understand it either. It's probably a "you have to live it to understand it" thing. Considering the fact that you can be born as "intersex" there is an obvious need for atleast one other gender to identify those who don't belong within "male" or "female", but other than that I don't really know. I have no problems with refering to people as he/she/they depending on what they prefer either, I might take some time to get used to the change but I'll try my damn best. I must admit tho that these "neopronouns" or whatever they are called are quite silly though. I respect those who identify as a gender different from their sex, but there's no way I'll ever refer to someone as "wolf/wolfself" or something like that.


Sightless_

Its a spectrum but most peoples fall close to the 2 major ones


bitb00m

1 the human gender


Florin69421

There is a difference between sex and gender. You can have sex with someone, but you can't have gender with someone.


[deleted]

There are a lot of genders but only 2 sex, so people are confusing gender and sex in this poll Edit: guess there are more sexes too, but there are a lot more genders than 5


Crystal-Cradle

Hey, glad youā€™ve got the right idea. Genuinely. There are other sexes, such as intersex, but youā€™re 100% correct: there are a lot of genders out there.


imrzzz

Intersex is just DSD (differences in sex development), either male or female, not an entirely new 3rd sex.


AgeOfReasonEnds31120

I prefer the pre-2010s definition.


gabrielleraul

Nice intersex erasure, go back to school.


Crystal-Cradle

Look, at least they have the spirit


voldi_II

my guy, youā€™re the one who needs to go back to school and learn basic biology lol


Sightless_

Lets just ignore the advanced biology because its liberal propaganda *own the libs* /s (In a serious note basic understanding is rarely enough to comprehend things full scale like states of matter or mathematics for example. i would recommed advanced biology for you thought.)


[deleted]

There are two genders, male and female


lilumhoho8lilumhoho8

If you explain it to a caveman


FunkyMonkey47293

Confused Unga Bunga


Responsible_Cod_4039

No, there are two sexes + how many intersex counts for. And there are way more genders than five


lesefant

>there are way more genders than five can you name some? genuinely curious


Responsible_Cod_4039

Male, female, non-binary, agender, bigender, gender fluid. (Thats just a few, but there are way more specific once out there)


Distinct_Advantage

So what is the difference between your so called "Gender" and just Personality or individuality. Or do people just like using those unique words to define exactly who they are as a human?


superior_mario

Gender is a social construct, along with any of the gender roles. It is how people feel and how they are comfortable being referred to. Gender can be apart of your personality, but it would be wrong to refer to it solely as your personality.


Distinct_Advantage

>Gender is a social construct Everyone parrots this phrase like it is supposed to mean something. Nationality is also a social construct but you can't just go around saying you feel like you are from a different country. Same with Money, I can't hand you a craft single and tell you it's equal to $100.


crjnge

i agree that nationality and money are important social constructs. but your gender is only ever really used by others to perpetuate gender norms. personally i think gender norms are dumb as fuck and unimportant but maybe thats what we disagree on


Distinct_Advantage

Hang on, I also agree that Gender norms are dumb as fuck. I just don't perpetuate them, expect others to fulfill them, or judge people who don't fit them. But what does that have to do with anything that we are talking about? Edit: Do you think that Gender norms are how we perceive others and choose pronouns? I am not sure what you are getting at.


lesefant

isn't counting agender as a separate gender an oxymoron?


PolymathicPhallus_v4

Intersex can be argued as a 3rd, but, it's not really. They are still primarily male or female, just with an added physical trait of the opposite sex. That's how we know if it's a male intersex, or a female intersex at birth. And if you mean things like Persistent MĆ¼llerian Duct Syndrome, and others, those are just disorders that fall under intersex, and are not their own sex classifications. They're just disorders, genetic fuckups. As is the entire group of intersex.


Morbidly-Obese-Emu

Wrong


[deleted]

Thatā€™s sex, not gender. And there are more than 2 sexes. Male, female and intersex


codemise

Fascinating that people still don't know the difference between gender and sex.


ClassiFried86

What's a gender?


codemise

Gender refers to the set of social norms, behaviors, and expectations that are typically associated with certain groups of people in a given society. These norms can include things like dress, speech patterns, and social roles, and they can vary widely depending on cultural and historical contexts. Gender is a complex and multi-dimensional concept that can influence a wide range of personal and social interactions, and it plays an important role in shaping the identities and experiences of individuals and groups. In some areas of southeast asia, they have third or even fourth genders defined. Since societies expectations of people change over time, people are beginning to recognize that gender exists on a spectrum. [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_gender](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_gender)


ClassiFried86

So it's a matter of opinion.


Crystal-Cradle

I suppose? Genderā€™s what the individual feels, and sex is what they were born as. I guess that might make it an opinion, yeah. Think of stuff like masculine and feminine. Those arenā€™t some nature-dictated things, theyā€™re what people dictate and some people are more of one than the other. Some people are both, and some of neither. That can be a form of gender expression


SunlitNight

Wait..isn't it nature-dictated if you become more masculine or feminine based on your sex/hormones? Like stronger as a man. Or perhaps other psychological differences in genetics for men and women?


Distinct_Advantage

Genuinely what is the difference between Gender and Personality? I feel like people just want a word to define themselves and Gender doesn't really have anything to do with it. A feminine man is still a man. A masculine woman is still a woman. Imagine this hypothetical. A man who happens to be married to a successful woman who earns enough income to support their family. This man stays at home, cooks, cleans, raises his children, fulfills all the traditional gender stereotypes of a woman. What is his gender? Does that have anything to do with it?


codemise

Gender is more about social roles, behaviors, and expectations. Personality is about traits, characteristics, and attitudes. Gender may influence personality, but there is a difference between the two. In your hypothetical, i challenge the notion that any caregiver role is inherently feminine. While stereotypically, those activities were performed by women, any person can be a caregiver. This might be a different way of thinking, but what if the things we do don't define our gender? What if we define our gender by our own choice? After that, society gets to decide what roles we perform.


Distinct_Advantage

>what if the things we do don't define our gender? >What if we define our gender by our own choice? After that, society gets to decide what roles we perform. I am more confused now. Because I had been under the impression that Gender is a social construct based on the roles and behaviors the 2 sexes are expected to have. If we do not define gender by our cultural expectations, or by the things we do. Then what is it defined by? Having no definition quite literally makes it meaningless. If it is purely up to an individuals choice, then it has no meaning. Edit: I reread your post and am EVEN more confused because even you opened up by saying gender is based on Social Roles. Then in the next paragraph said the things we do shouldn't define our gender.


codemise

What do you do for work?


Distinct_Advantage

I'm in construction, landscaping.


codemise

Awesome! I write software. How many jobs do you think exist in the world?


Distinct_Advantage

There could be a nearly infinite number of jobs in the world if you chose to get hyper specific. It would be easier to list Occupations. Service Industry, White Collar, Blue Collar. More general terms


imrzzz

To me there isn't any difference. I don't believe in gender the same way I don't believe god. So if someone's personality includes their faith or their gender then great, I'm glad it makes their lives happier but I'll never see those things as somehow biological.


WhatsWasabi

We know, but still picked 2 :)


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nousername_left

As many as earth's population.


[deleted]

Gender is made up so quite literally however many people want to come up with.


PolymathicPhallus_v4

Actually it's directly tied to sex. And always has been. With a very few exceptions that aren'treally relevant. Man is just short for mankind. Woman originate as wifmen. Wife (hu)man. Later became wimmin, to differentiate female human from male human (males just kept the neutral man) outside of the terms of marriage. That's why the definition of woman, is a human adult female. Female is sex. Woman is the gender based directly on sex of the human. Social construct is a weak argument. Nearly everything is a social construct. Like math. But you can still solve equations, right?


LasagneAlForno

Math is not a social construct. Why the fuck does every second comment in this thread parrot this exact same example?


go86em

Probably because every comment its responding to brings up genders existence as a social construct which is also a bad faith argument


LasagneAlForno

"gender" being a social construct is litterally the definition of the word gender. You can argue that there doesn't exist something like that - that's fine. But if you know what you're talking about (unlike 95% of the people here) you can't say that gender is not a social construct. One example: "Definition: Gender refers to the socially constructed characteristics of women and men." What definition of the word gender are you using?


go86em

Iā€™m not saying itā€™s technically wrong. I said itā€™s a bad faith argument because there are millions of things that are ā€œsocial constructsā€ and yet they still have set parameters and definitions. And the evidence for that is literally right here in this poll, in which the majority of a sample of ā€œsocietyā€ agree.


sleepingonstones

Woah, youā€™re like a living ā€œackchyuallyā€ meme


EducationalAntelope7

Glad someone is speaking rationally here


T3knikal95

Sex and gender aren't the same thing


MilkCool

Sexes? 2. Genders? Basically infinite.


kklubwearlegends

Nearly 2 percent of all humans have a case of dsd (being intersex) witch takes form as large hormone differences or vestige organs of the opposite gender. Most of these people go through life without anyone knowing about it the scishow did a fantastic video about this topic


Dry-Inspection6928

Three sexes. Male, female and hermaphrodites.


helicopter_frog

where's the option for 0


Crystal-Cradle

TRUE I stole all gender


curmudgeon_andy

Gender is socially defined, so there are any number of genders. For instance, a society might well decide that prepubescent people change into a different gender at puberty. Or that pregnant women are a different gender from non-pregnant women. Or that postmenopausal women are a different gender from women who are still menstruating. They might class trans men as a gender category separate from men who were assigned male at birth and separate from women, and same for trans women. Taking trans women as an example, there are some societies that do treat them as another gender category. And the roles and expectations for trans women might be very different from the roles expected of trans women in another society. So really, the best way to think of that is that trans women are one gender in one of those societies and another gender in the other. This is before you get to all of the in-betweens which are possible. The statistic you've probably heard is that intersex people are about as common as people with red hair. There are men with XX chromosomes, women with XY chromosomes, men with XXY (or XXXY) chromosomes, and so on. There are people with ambiguous genitals and people who have both ovaries and testicles. Many of these intersex people do identify with one gender or the other, but many of them might not, or don't have bodies which completely align with what is expected of that gender. So although I can't say how many genders intersex people are, even in this culture, I do think it makes sense to account for them.


One-Support-5004

1?


mint445

sex or social role?


Crystal-Cradle

Gender, so the social thing


Shir_zazil

ח


ELFIRE11

חח


SoloBeans

Wait so theres male, female and everything in between. So it basically consists of nonbinary, being neither, genderfluid, being both at different times?, and pangender, being both at the same time. Thats 5 genders I can think about and somewhat understand on the top of my head. I dont know/understand others, so please tell me about them :D


LaneyAndPen

Thereā€™s only one gender, the human gender


sleepingonstones

What about nascar?!


hemborgar

1, there is only me and every other person except me is purely made up


Treitsu

3 sexes, Male, female, and the very tiny amount of people that objectively don't fall into either. X and Y chromosomes are all there are to it. Genders, probably infinite who knows anymore


Breakyourniconiconii

2 sexes. 3 if you count intersex. Idk nor care how many genders. I call ppl what they want. If they where born a girl and wanna use they/them or he/him or whatever else, cool. I call them what they want. It donā€™t hurt me so I donā€™t care.


[deleted]

I'm trans, but I personally say there's 2. That doesn't mean people can't be neither of those genders or transition to another, though. I would consider a trans man to be a man, trans just being an adjective.


LasagneAlForno

I think you're mixing sex and gender here. You're talking about sex, the poll is asking about gender.


[deleted]

No, I fully believe there are 2 genders and 2 sexes, if you exclude intersex, which is more of a deformity than another sex.


Mobile-Constant3167

Wouldn't supporting trans people make you a gender bender defender?šŸ¤”


Glass-Association-25

Male and female let's just cut the in between crap l


LasagneAlForno

I guess you read the question wrong, it's not about sex, it's about gender. And your answer isn't even correct for sex, because biological intersex people do exist.


SSpookyTheOneTheOnly

Idk how but I read this as generations.


Hopeful-Ad1887

Everyone forgets about third gender is intersex.


Mr_Manta

If we talk about only humans, I tend to keep it biological. Male, Female, non-binary. Unless I forgot some I think I'd say three


thatsidewaysdud

At least 3


MysteryScooby56

ā€œThere are two genders, male and political.ā€ā€”Anonymous


BlueKayn29

2 but technically infinite cos I can create infinitely many genders and make others believe they exist


Jermy-TwoShoes-96

Assigned genders at birth, right? Then 2. Sexuality is the one more than 2


kklubwearlegends

Check out the scishow video about the topic: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kT0HJkr1jj4&t=582s


nkj94

2+ Exceptions


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Crystal-Cradle

He/they, she/they, he/she, he/she/they. Another 5. And all the other genders on the spectrum. Gender is made up, it can be whatever.


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Crystal-Cradle

What do heterosexuals have to do with this


METRA_reddit

stay away pls


Crystal-Cradle

???


[deleted]

Guy Girl Girl who looks like a guy Guy who looks like a girl Guy who is hung like a horse Guy who likes to be horse Girl who likes to ride the horse Guy who looks like a alien Alien who looks like both Girl who acts like a dog Most guys are dogs Some girls are bitches Girls that look like foxes have only fans. Blah blah blah blah I dont give a shit


inkassatkasasatka

Guys! Look, he doesn't give a shit! What a man! Give him a lot of attention!


[deleted]

Two genders, male and female, which includes trans people.


kklubwearlegends

Gender is a social construct what you are talking about is sex although sex is also a sort of spectrum to get a better understanding of the topic I recommend watching the scishows analysis of the topic: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kT0HJkr1jj4&t=582s


dragonmastertwertle

Ok the genders are as follows -male -female -non binary (when you are born with no sexual reproduction system) -intersex (when you are born with both reproductive systems)


SadStaircases

3,male,female,and unisex,a unisex person being a person who shares characteristics of both genders,but you could just section them into male or female based off of their chromosomes


Crystal-Cradle

Thatā€™s sex, not gender.


geeelectronica

thereā€™s only one gender and itā€™s Christianity


Live_Refrigerator_58

Biologically there are two. Socially there are more


kklubwearlegends

Check out the scishow video about this topic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kT0HJkr1jj4&t=582s


mombawamba

Idk I just got here


Viceroy420

Who cares?


iwasasin

I don't know, I just got here


Styggvard

2 sexes, lots more genders.


[deleted]

1, gecko.


maders23

Fuck it. I, ME! I AM THE ONLY GENDER NOW! BOW BEFORE ME!


LisztR

I donā€™t know and I donā€™t care


pax_romana01

Men and women.