Hey, there! I was reading through some of your blog and hit on an ask about biological sex and such. Would it be alright if we talked in a reblog chain about the six sexes recognized by Judaism and Jewish Law for the past 1,800+ years, how that intersects with sex being a social construct, and how sex in humans is bimodal instead of binary? If not, that's cool. It's just something I like sharing with people.
hmm... you'd have to educate me on it, because i've never heard of this. i'm certainly open to it if you'd like to inform me!! i think i know which post you're referencing here [X]?
as far as i currently am aware now, there are only two sexes (and any form of intersex is a variation in one way or another), whereas gender is infinite because it doesn't truly exist (whether one considers that valid in any given discourse discussion or not, no matter the morality behind it). i'm also slightly skeptical on the innate reality of theory and/or study coming from a specific culture, as that immediately gives away signs of it being a social construct (especially if it's as old as 1800+ years due to likelihood of it being outdated by now). if it can fundamentally prove with irrefutable evidence that there are four other existing sexes along with the primary two we know that are explicitly biologically different in its own separate category from male and female altogether, by all means i won't deny it.
now, that's not to say that judaism and its studies of law are invalid, fake, wrong, whatever. i'm also not jewish so i would not like to speak on it, as not only am i uneducated as i previously stated but i am also not one to purposefully overstep when it would be wrong and is truly not my place to. all i'm suggesting here is that biology/nature and culture aren't the same and can't effectively mix well, which i'm sure you'd inherently agree with on its own for as simple as that statement is.
last thing before you reblog with a reply - as much as i love debate for a passion on topics like this, i can't say i have so much confidence this time around for obvious reasons. that's not to say i'll shrug everything off and just agree with you all the time, but i really don't want to start an argument or heated debate to be taken seriously. i'd love to just have a conversation though, because i'm curious now (especially about your proposed difference between “binary” and “bimodal”)!! :)
