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Re: Couldn't resist
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Fri, 6 Jul 2001 22:01:46 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Dave Schuler writes:
> In lugnet.space, Chris Maddison writes:
> > I assure you, my boy, Shiri *is* a woman. I should know. ;-)
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> I think that unless we can find a specific point at which Shiri is not a
> man, then we cannot demonstrate conclusively that she is a woman. Either
> Shiri occupies a spectrum of man-ness and woman-ness with no distinction, or
> a distinction exists, even if we can't define it precisely. DaveE and I
> have been bandying around exactly this sort of thing for days.
Obviously according to our preset definitions, one would grade according to
a sexual scale, rather than percentages of spectrum occupation. Person A
being said to have a male rating of 36 could condusively be called female
were the female/male midpoint sufficiently below such a rating, likewise
assuming negativity for the scale biased for maleness. However, due to the
multitude of factors involved in sexual determination, such a precise rating
could not hoped to be calculated, nor could the aforesaid threshhold. And as
negativity were associated with maleness and the maximum rating being named
"female", ratings respectively above the negative extrema are able to be
deemed female, as per the inconsistancy of both the midpoint and rating values.
Hence, quite clearly, we're *all* female.
And of course, this very neatly solves all our problems, since Shiri's
initial debate question was "Is this sexist?". Now that we're all women, it
is quite clearly no longer an issue.
DaveE
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Message has 2 Replies:
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| (...) Any theorem fails if taken to its logical extreme, eh? (...) Look, er that is, listen... *I* could tell you the specific point at which women are not men, and exactly where it is located. But this being a family forum I have no intention of (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) The answer for our determination in gender is that there is a complicated plan for all of the people that have ever existed in life to become either male or female in their gender and I do not know what you mean by a rating as I have never (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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