#binary

[redlobter]

Episode sixty five, Binary. Revisiting this episode in the year of our lord 2026 is... an experience. I hope the angles aren't cutting Jon and Martin, wherever they are.

[i-collect-shiny-stuff]

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[395nm]

And that’s true! Sex is not a binary! This fact deeply frustrates some people, who insist the phenomenon they’re thinking of is real. What is real:

humans reproduce sexually. a new human can only be created by the combination of a sperm and an egg.

only a handful of humans have had the ability to produce both gametes. the vast majority produce one type or none.

if a person produces gametes, it is possible to guess which gamete they produce with >95% accuracy based on physical appearance. >97% of people who produce sperm have a penis. >97% of people who produce eggs have a vulva.

attempts to discriminate between these two classes of people are the historical basis for gender binaries.

attempts to control the “means of reproduction” are the basis for an ongoing class struggle between cis perisex men and cis perisex women.

a theory of feminism is incomplete if it does not account for the previous two points!

none of these facts are incompatible with queer, trans, and intersex liberation!

the general public perceives queer liberationists as lacking common sense when we try to obfuscate these facts. queer liberation can reach greater public acceptance without compromising our values by reacting to these facts with “yes, and” instead of “what about.”

sample response to “what is a woman”:

Historically, “woman” was a designation applied to people whose physical traits correlate with the ability to produce “egg” gametes. These people were subject to restricted freedom, with normative expectations for their clothing, mannerisms, and role in society. Today we recognize the classical physical signifiers of womanhood do not correlate with gamete production 100% of the time. Furthermore, we believe the coercive designation of certain individuals as women is unjust. Therefore, we affirm that a person is a woman if and only if they want to be.

Nothing is lost by this redefinition of “woman.” Gamete production is not relevant to everyday life: a person should not be treated or expected to behave differently based on what gametes we think they produce. In conversations where sex characteristics are relevant, it is more accurate to refer to those characteristics directly than to reduce them to a binary.

[bad-comic-art]

I was going to comment on how skinny Captain Marvel was before I realized jean is literally hiding behind her

Binary #3 (2025)

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[transfemboygirl]

when seeing the term "transfem" the first thought shouldn't only be a binary woman. when seeing the term "transmasc" the first thought shouldn't only be a binary man.

it's so obvious when someone thinks transfem and transmasc is a (often binary) woman and man exclusive club. transfem ≠ woman and transmasc ≠ man. there's terms for when you mean trans women and trans men, and it's yknow, trans woman and trans man.

i'm tired of nonbinary, abinary, anodiean, etc people who are transfem/masc while not being binary women / men**, being ignored erased or added as an afterthought. i'm tired of multigender, genderfluid, etc people who are transfem/masc, having part of their identity ignored because most posts about transfem/mascs has a monogender centered concept. and i'm tired of people who aren't just one trans label being ignored or an afterthought.

** some people do identify as both binary and nonbinary, and some nonbinary people do identify as women / men. but even then most people exclude them due to the push of strict experience boxes.

⚠️ Do not use they/them if talking about me to others in reblogs/comments. I have neopronouns in my pinned post ⚠️

[womandidebuli]

hey girl. what's up with the halo.

[undying-love]

"I'm attracted to the binary. I state that quite casually, but I think there’s actually a lot more to it than my just saying, ‘I’m attracted to the binary.’ Once you get down to the scientific biological level, in my core, I probably am the binary. All of us are probably more binary than we might realise. When you think about it, binary is how computers work. ‘You want to go this or that way?’ ‘Well, I’ll go that way.’ ‘Okay. Now, do you want to go that way or this way?’ At a fundamental level, that’s the whole thing, that’s how they make their computational decisions. [...] ‘Hello, Goodbye’ shows off a binary that we took great advantage of in The Beatles. With regard to John Lennon and myself, the great attraction we had for each other was that we each had a bit the other didn’t have. John could be quite cynical. I was his opposite, in that respect. [...] I think there definitely was a sort of ‘hello, goodbye’ about John and myself. But we loved it. We loved it because John could contribute his caustic wit and I could contribute something more upbeat. Not always, we each did what the other one did from time to time. But if you had to break it down – and though it is a bit crude to say so – there was a binary tension at the heart of our songwriting together." - Paul, The Lyrics