What is the truth of sex genders?

**Squeek** · 04-5-2007, 08:25 PM

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If you're asking if males can be deserted on an island and survive without women, then that's pretty obvious.

In fact, I've already done it. Three weeks of it.

But to be totally frank, humankind needs other people to rely on for everything we do. It just so happens the most common bond people share is between a man and a woman.

A pirate ship with a captain and no crew is not a pirate ship.

**blindreper1179** · 04-5-2007, 08:36 PM

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very well put by mr. squeek

**Billydude** · 04-5-2007, 08:42 PM

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I think males and females need eachother in life, but I don't think an individual male can not survive with females. Squeek puts it almost perfectly.

And also, in CT threads people are supposed to post there opinions. Telling them not to post something can restrict them from posting there opinions.

**meiloyn** · 04-5-2007, 09:35 PM

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No, because the men will get really horny, and all the heterosexual ones will kill themselves because they can't get any.

~*~

Being serious:

An individual male may be able to survive without any females, in my opinion, but his life quality might be very limited. Since humans were meant to interact with each and divide jobs equally among the two sexes, A male with a female may be better relaxed than a male with no female.

Same thing for females with males.

**Kilroy_x** · 04-6-2007, 10:44 PM

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Human beings are biologically adapted to a two gender existence, including variants along the usual bell curves of physicality and attraction. At the same time human beings are also the most adaptive animals on the planet, and biological entities are by definition adaptable in the grand scheme of things. Our adaptability as human beings keeps us as human beings though, whereas evolutionary adaptation would perhaps make us different things.

**Chrissi** · 04-6-2007, 11:13 PM

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Originally posted by Kilroy_x

Human beings are biologically adapted to a two gender existence

You mean sex. We don't have biological genders, and saying that we are biologically one gender or another is a very closed-minded western point of view.

**Kilroy_x** · 04-6-2007, 11:17 PM

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Wow, not reading an entire post is one thing but not reading an entire SENTENCE!? I'm impressed!

But hell, it's possible you meant something you just failed to articulate. Human beings most certainly do have biological genders, in any number of different senses. Sometimes the lines blur, and sometimes some attributes of one gender are present and others are absent, but always as a result of the interplay of definable biological categories.

**Chrissi** · 04-6-2007, 11:45 PM

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Originally posted by Kilroy_x

Wow, not reading an entire post is one thing but not reading an entire SENTENCE!? I'm impressed!

But hell, it's possible you meant something you just failed to articulate. Human beings most certainly do have biological genders, in any number of different senses. Sometimes the lines blur, and sometimes some attributes of one gender are present and others are absent, but always as a result of the interplay of definable biological categories.

I read the post. I chose the part that was most relevant, to quote.

Humans do not have biological genders. This is a flawed and western view. Gender is a social phenomenon. I think you mean sex. To quote wikipedia:

Gender in common usage refers to the sexual distinction between male and female. Although ‘gender’ can commonly be used interchangably with ‘sex’, within the academic fields of cultural studies, gender studies and the social sciences the term ‘gender’ refers to a social construction rather than a biological condition.

I am assuming since this is critical thinking we'd prefer to use the academic definition rather than the slang one?

**RPGFREAK** · 04-6-2007, 11:54 PM

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Originally posted by meiloyn

No, because the men will get really horny, and all the heterosexual ones will kill themselves because they can't get any.

~*~

In that case virgins after reaching a certain age are doomed to commit suicide and prison inmates shouldn't worry about 'dropping the soap'.

An individual male may be able to survive without any females, in my opinion, but his life quality might be very limited. Since humans were meant to interact with each and divide jobs equally among the two sexes, A male with a female may be better relaxed than a male with no female.

Same thing for females with males.

I personally don't believe men and women have "jobs". The only jobs I can think of involve the conception, birth, and general wellfare of a child before they are physically & mentally capable of taking care of themselves. Beyond that the jobs, as you so call them, are elective. It not a man's job to 'bring home the bacon' nor is it a woman's job to take care of the household.

To answer the question, men only need women as a survival tool of the gender as a whole & the human race.

**YoEr13** · 04-7-2007, 12:21 AM

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Well, men and women could live separately forever, however, they would never evolve. Because of this the human race could never survive. In the end no they couldn't, but in a short term yes they could. It just depends on how long they are going to be apart.

That was a little broad but it gets my thought out good enough.

**Kilroy_x** · 04-7-2007, 12:24 AM

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Originally posted by Chrissi

Gender in common usage refers to the sexual distinction between male and female. Although �gender� can commonly be used interchangably with �sex�, within the academic fields of cultural studies, gender studies and the social sciences the term �gender� refers to a social construction rather than a biological condition.

Right, and society is an effect tracable purely to biology, so if we're mincing hairs here...

I am assuming since this is critical thinking we'd prefer to use the academic definition rather than the slang one?

Sure, I apologize, I wasn't aware of how the word was being used. Nevertheless, in a more abstract manner biology remains the root and sole cause of gender.

**Lamoc** · 04-7-2007, 12:44 AM

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Both races CAN live without one another. Cloning and such have been invented. The other sex doesn't HAVE to be there. Besides that theres not much a question here.

**jamuko** · 04-7-2007, 02:01 AM

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Originally posted by Lamoc

Both races CAN live without one another. Cloning and such have been invented. The other sex doesn't HAVE to be there. Besides that theres not much a question here.

Wait... both "races"? XD I'm sorry, but I had to laugh at that.

Kilroy, I'm not sure exactly what you're getting at with calling it purely biological... obviously society is largely an environmental system, practically unrelated to biology other than the fact that it sprung from biological creatures, but that's making quite a generalization. Grouping the two together makes any argument of nature vs. nurture pointless.

**chickendude** · 04-7-2007, 08:00 AM

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The only difference between the genders is sex, and societal implications caused by sex.

Ignoring sex, there is really no difference between males and females sociologically.

What is the truth of sex genders?

What is the truth of sex genders?

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