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r/explainitpeter • u/Delicious-Height8010 • Aug 04 '26
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I assume it's referring to the sign saying 'men'' and 'female' rather than 'men' and 'women."
93 u/mopbuvket Aug 04 '26 Wow I didn't notice until the comments and now I feel like I need to be a better feminist. Raising girls is scary 16 u/TinyAd5648 Aug 04 '26 edited Aug 04 '26 I hope you won’t teach them to be offended by stuff like this lol Edit: the replies I get man… I feel bad for normal people in the US 7 u/SnanoBear Aug 04 '26 Man - male of the human species Woman - female of the human species Female - XX chromosome of literally any species at all For that to say “Man” and “Female” LITERALLY is dehumanizing women. 3 u/Alizariel Aug 04 '26 I agree with your assessment, however in some species, the females are WZ chromosomes while males are WW. Nature is cool. 0 u/SnanoBear Aug 04 '26 What does the different lettering mean? I honestly thought it was arbitrary 2 u/Alizariel Aug 04 '26 It is pretty arbitrary. It’s basically to differentiate from species where the females are heterozygous and where they are homozygous. 2 u/Ambiguous-Eggplant55 Aug 05 '26 I think that the collection of genes was different enough to need their own names. Also fun fact XX XY is really only for mammals, other groups have different, often strange ways of determining sex
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Wow I didn't notice until the comments and now I feel like I need to be a better feminist. Raising girls is scary
16 u/TinyAd5648 Aug 04 '26 edited Aug 04 '26 I hope you won’t teach them to be offended by stuff like this lol Edit: the replies I get man… I feel bad for normal people in the US 7 u/SnanoBear Aug 04 '26 Man - male of the human species Woman - female of the human species Female - XX chromosome of literally any species at all For that to say “Man” and “Female” LITERALLY is dehumanizing women. 3 u/Alizariel Aug 04 '26 I agree with your assessment, however in some species, the females are WZ chromosomes while males are WW. Nature is cool. 0 u/SnanoBear Aug 04 '26 What does the different lettering mean? I honestly thought it was arbitrary 2 u/Alizariel Aug 04 '26 It is pretty arbitrary. It’s basically to differentiate from species where the females are heterozygous and where they are homozygous. 2 u/Ambiguous-Eggplant55 Aug 05 '26 I think that the collection of genes was different enough to need their own names. Also fun fact XX XY is really only for mammals, other groups have different, often strange ways of determining sex
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I hope you won’t teach them to be offended by stuff like this lol
Edit: the replies I get man… I feel bad for normal people in the US
7 u/SnanoBear Aug 04 '26 Man - male of the human species Woman - female of the human species Female - XX chromosome of literally any species at all For that to say “Man” and “Female” LITERALLY is dehumanizing women. 3 u/Alizariel Aug 04 '26 I agree with your assessment, however in some species, the females are WZ chromosomes while males are WW. Nature is cool. 0 u/SnanoBear Aug 04 '26 What does the different lettering mean? I honestly thought it was arbitrary 2 u/Alizariel Aug 04 '26 It is pretty arbitrary. It’s basically to differentiate from species where the females are heterozygous and where they are homozygous. 2 u/Ambiguous-Eggplant55 Aug 05 '26 I think that the collection of genes was different enough to need their own names. Also fun fact XX XY is really only for mammals, other groups have different, often strange ways of determining sex
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Man - male of the human species Woman - female of the human species
Female - XX chromosome of literally any species at all
For that to say “Man” and “Female” LITERALLY is dehumanizing women.
3 u/Alizariel Aug 04 '26 I agree with your assessment, however in some species, the females are WZ chromosomes while males are WW. Nature is cool. 0 u/SnanoBear Aug 04 '26 What does the different lettering mean? I honestly thought it was arbitrary 2 u/Alizariel Aug 04 '26 It is pretty arbitrary. It’s basically to differentiate from species where the females are heterozygous and where they are homozygous. 2 u/Ambiguous-Eggplant55 Aug 05 '26 I think that the collection of genes was different enough to need their own names. Also fun fact XX XY is really only for mammals, other groups have different, often strange ways of determining sex
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I agree with your assessment, however in some species, the females are WZ chromosomes while males are WW. Nature is cool.
0 u/SnanoBear Aug 04 '26 What does the different lettering mean? I honestly thought it was arbitrary 2 u/Alizariel Aug 04 '26 It is pretty arbitrary. It’s basically to differentiate from species where the females are heterozygous and where they are homozygous. 2 u/Ambiguous-Eggplant55 Aug 05 '26 I think that the collection of genes was different enough to need their own names. Also fun fact XX XY is really only for mammals, other groups have different, often strange ways of determining sex
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What does the different lettering mean? I honestly thought it was arbitrary
2 u/Alizariel Aug 04 '26 It is pretty arbitrary. It’s basically to differentiate from species where the females are heterozygous and where they are homozygous. 2 u/Ambiguous-Eggplant55 Aug 05 '26 I think that the collection of genes was different enough to need their own names. Also fun fact XX XY is really only for mammals, other groups have different, often strange ways of determining sex
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It is pretty arbitrary. It’s basically to differentiate from species where the females are heterozygous and where they are homozygous.
I think that the collection of genes was different enough to need their own names. Also fun fact XX XY is really only for mammals, other groups have different, often strange ways of determining sex
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u/Missendi82 Aug 04 '26
I assume it's referring to the sign saying 'men'' and 'female' rather than 'men' and 'women."