Race Is a Spectrum. Sex Is Pretty Damn Binary: Richard Dawkins

[@IainFrame]

Dawkins is of course right. It doesn't stop anyone *feeling* like they align with traditional characteristics of the opposite *gender* but, like he says, sex is pretty damn binary.

[@Aanthanur]

intersex people show its not binary.

[@fordprefect80]

@@Aanthanur They're an abnormality.

[@Aanthanur]

@@fordprefect80 whatever you call them, they prove that sex is not simply binary. sorry that this is too complicated for you. ofc its binary if you just exclude everything your dont see fit for your binary thinking.

[@moon-pw1bi]

those traditional characteristics of the opposite gender, or otherwise known as, femininity or masculinity. the error is assuming femininity means "woman"

[@justmy2cents652]

@@Aanthanur You don't understand what "sex is binary" means. How many types of gametes are involved in procreation? If you come to any other conclusion than "2" - please enlighten us. Is the number of digits on a spectrum in humans? bUt ThEre ArE PeOpLe with, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, *10*, 11, 12 fingers! And did you know that some people have short fingers and some have long fingers and some get 3 of their fingers cut of in an accident!!! It's a SPECTRUM!

[@femalism1715]

Sex is pretty damn binary.

[@diaet]

No, Computers are, sex isn't...

[@diaet]

@@femalism1715 No

[@LloydChristmas-vx2wh]

Sex is pretty damn binary 🎯.

[@Aanthanur]

really? explain how some people with XY chromosomes can give birth?

[@N1tr063nFr05trhym3]

It clearly isn't though

[@notafantbh]

Nothing in nature is truly binary. Nature is actually incredibly weird and is the product of millions of DNA alterations that can have lots of probabilistically small but very apparent changes in the organism which in the end can also result in changes in perception. It's completely expected that a small percentage of the population will be intersex and also that there will be people with gender dysphoria due to their sex not matching their perceived gender. It would be very weird if these cases didn't exist. Unless you have the mind of a toddler, that is. People like Dawkins wants to cling to the idea that it's simple because it confirms his biases which is ironically what he's always accused religious people of doing. He's become a fraud.

[@joen4642]

​@@AanthanurYou are putting all the percived value into an exception and forcing the rest to accommodate the exception. Guess who that will hurt the most? Guess why we have such rules based on sex categories? For practical use in a society gender ideology over sex categories will hurt those that cannot defend themselves. Are you ready for that?

[@Aanthanur]

@@joen4642 especially sports has shown that we cant just ignore those people, science has shown its not so binary as we learned in school.

[@michelle5131]

I would not refer to “Jan” Morris as a woman. I do not owe HIM anything. He is a man.

[@Aanthanur]

ok mike

[@minhuang8848]

yeah be quiet, michael freaking mikes every single time

[@N1tr063nFr05trhym3]

You might want to give people a basic amount of respect, Mikey

[@Raziel433]

No, bestie, Michelle is right. He is a man. The only ppl who think it’s smart or wise is to call men women are those who have drunk the kool aid. Anyone claiming otherwise is just a filthy trans activist.

[@antman2826]

I'm 100% with you. If anyone has gender dysphoria then it is their issue and not anyone else's. They are at odds with reality and should come to terms with that and not expect the world to move around them.

[@UteHeggenTranswidowHeals]

NY state voters! Vote NO on Proposition 1! Keep sex binary, no "gender expression" inserted into state constitution! NO, no, nooooo

[@francisjo3]

Thank you professor Dawkins!

[@TheVeganVicar]

sex: gender; the BINARY state of being either male or female in most species of metazoans. In humans, each cell nucleus contains 23 pairs of chromosomes, a total of 46 chromosomes. The first 22 pairs are called autosomes. Autosomes are homologous chromosomes, that is, chromosomes that contain the same genes (regions of DNA) in the same order along their chromosomal arms. The 23rd pair of chromosomes are called allosomes (sex chromosomes). These allosomes consist of two X chromosomes in most all females, and an X chromosome and a Y chromosome in most all males. Females, therefore, have 23 homologous chromosome pairs, whereas males have 22. The X and Y chromosomes have small regions of homology called pseudoautosomal regions. The X chromosome is always present as the 23rd chromosome in the ovum, while either an X or Y chromosome may be present in an individual spermatozoon cell gamete. Rare chromosomal anomalies include X (Turner syndrome); XXY (Klinefelter syndrome); XYY; and XXX. In such cases, the sex of the human is still either male or female, because one’s sex/gender is determined primarily by the gametes produced (see below). An extremely minute percentage of humans are either (anatomical) hermaphrodites or of indeterminate sex (or to be more accurate, disordered sex). That does not negate the incontrovertible FACT that there are but two sexes/genders. In order for reproduction to take place, there is the requirement of a female ovum and a male sperm to unite, and because the entire purpose of the gender/sex dichotomy of most species of animals is to enable procreation, the sexual identity of an individual is best classified according to the gametes produced by the individual in question. There is no third gamete. Cf. “gender”. Both terms (“gender” and “sex”) originate from Latin words: “genus” (meaning “begin”; “birth”; “kind”; “race”; “gender”) and “sexus” (meaning “sex”; “division”; “gender”). If the reader is curious to know the reason for this term being included in the glossary of “F.I.S.H” (apart from the fact that it is actually used in a handful of chapters), it is because, in recent times, LEFTISTS have been desperately trying to change the meaning of the words “sex” and “gender”, in order to serve their immensely-nefarious agenda to destroy civil society with their hateful, wicked, immoral ideologies, especially by promoting the nonsensical idea that a person is able to transition from one gender to the other. ♂️♀️♂️♀️♂️♀️♂️♀️♂️♀️ gender: sex; the BINARY state of being either male or female, and because the entire purpose of the gender/sex division in most species of animal life is to facilitate procreation, the sexual identity of an individual is best classified according to the gametes produced by the person in question. There is no extant third gamete. Therefore, even if a human being possessed a male reproductive system (or, at a minimum, produced spermatazoa, despite not having a complete reproductive system [in other words, a man without a distinguishable penis]), yet was superlatively feminine in every other possible way, he would be required to mate with a biological female in order to reproduce (and, as explained in Chapter 27, marriage is a societal obligation for the vast majority of humans). An extremely minute percentage of humans are either “intersex” (typically referring to those persons who are anatomical hermaphrodites) or of indeterminate gender (that is, not easily determined by a cursory inspection of the external genitalia), but that does not negate the incontrovertible scientific fact that every human belongs to one of only two genders. As far as we know, there has never existed a single human being with the ability to BOTH conceive a child in “his/her” womb and, simultaneously, successfully inseminate a woman (or in more disturbing terms, for a hermaphrodite to inseminate ‘him/herself’). And even if such an individual has existed, that person would be a combination of BOTH male and female, and not some imaginary, novel third gender. In those rare cases in which a human is born without gonads, the other characteristics of sex/gender would be taken into consideration - firstly, the allosomes (sex chromosomes) found in the DNA of every cell, and then, any extant genitalia, since even those females who have experienced the misfortune of being born without ovaries, for instance, usually have their remaining sex organs intact). Cf. “sex”. Both terms (“gender” and “sex”) originate from Latin words: “genus” (meaning “begin”; “birth”; “kind”; “race”; “gender”) and “sexus” (meaning “sex”; “division”; “gender”). So, essentially, the only significant distinction between the two terms is that the etymology of “gender” pertains to the beginning of things, as can be plainly seen by the other English words that originate from “genus”, such as “generic”, “genetic”, and “generate”, whilst “sex” is a scrupulously-literal translation of the Latin cognate “sexus”. The mere fact that the word “genitals” (referring to reproductive organs) is very closely related to the Latin “genus”, is further evidence of the assertion that the term “gender” refers to the binary division of human (and of course, many non-human) sexual identity, and NOT to any taxonomy based on emotion, feelings, psychology, or any other non-biological categorization schema. If the reader is curious to know why this term is included in the glossary of “F.I.S.H” (apart from the fact that it is actually used in a handful of chapters), it is because leftists have been desperately trying to change the meaning of the word of late, in order to serve their immensely-perverse agenda to destroy civil society with their hateful, wicked, sinful, OBJECTIVELY-IMMORAL doctrines. Until relatively recently, the word “gender” has ALWAYS been used in the etymologically-accurate sense of the term. And even in the former case (where the word has been used to denote something other than the sexual binary taxonomy), predominantly in those places where leftist ideologues comprise a significant portion of the population - mainly Anglophone countries at present, although by the time you are reading this document, probably every nation on earth, with the exception of Islamic lands. See also “leftism”. Ultimately, the term “gender” is not absolutely synonymous with the word “sex” (otherwise, why would progenitors of the Latin tongue have coined two distinct words for two slightly divergent concepts), but it most definitely does not refer to the notion or notions invented by leftists (those who adhere to adharma), especially the idea that “sex” refers to a binary division of human biology and/or anatomy, whereas “gender” refers to how one identifies according to societal norms in regard to sexual roles. For example, most all leftist ideologues define “woman” as “someone who identifies as a woman”, which is a wholly circular definition. Those of us who stand for dharma (righteousness) must push-back with all our might against the adulteration of the language. If you are truly wise and intelligent, you would surely have recognized several amazing secrets contained within the body of this treatise, “A Final Instruction Sheet for Humanity”. However, perhaps the most secretive secret of all, shall forthwith be revealed: It is IMPOSSIBLE for a human being to change his or her sex/gender! (You are implored to keep this secret - do not tell a soul!!!) For example, a man who castrates himself and wears a skirt or a dress, is simply a mutilated, transvestinal male - not a woman, nor is he a female. Similarly, a woman who attaches an appendage resembling a phallus to her crotch and dons a pair of pantaloons, is merely a transvestinal woman with a fake penis between her thighs, and not a man, nor a male, in any accurate sense of the terms. Actually, I would contend that any “man” who excises his reproductive organs was always a dickless “man”, metaphorically speaking. N.B. Even though the glossary entries “gender” and “sex” are worded somewhat differently, they could easily have EITHER been interchangeable, or else, worded identically, since, in practice, they possess the same meaning. Even when the term “gender” (or any non-English cognate of the word) is used in grammar, it indicates whether a particular noun or pronoun is masculine, feminine or neuter, although most nouns in the English language do not have a gender (neuters).

[@LloydChristmas-vx2wh]

I'm also vegan and accept the scientific fact that "sex is pretty damn binary".

[@billbadson7598]

I would even push back against: _"An extremely minute percentage of humans are either (anatomical) hermaphrodites or of indeterminate sex (or to be more accurate, disordered sex)."_ Not that it isn't true, but an "anatomical hermaphrodite" is as meaningful to the discussion of sex as a person born with one arm is to the assertion that humans have two arms. A developmental disorder caused their body to express itself in an abnormal way, but this has nothing to do with their sex.

[@TheVeganVicar]

@@billbadson7598 I've since corrected my glossary entry. ☝️☝️

[@ThaMassDebater]

This is excellent. Thank you for taking the time to explain this. My leftist wife keeps telling me that sex and gender are based on how someone feels... 🙄 🤦‍♂️

[@louiseparker1915]

Thank you! Brilliant!

[@KingChipQueenMuffin]

5:25 This One's Wife (MM) claimed she was white on her driver's licence (until she got caught out). Then for a free trip to Malta claimed she was Maltese (no, just Irish great grandparents who lived in Malta for a bit). Now she's 43% Nigerian??!! (Even though her mother Dortio is half black and has no links to Nigeria).

[@blah914]

yeah 😂 the American education system leaves much to be desired, but that math ain't mathing for anybody 😂

[@SauronKierkegaard]

Iona and Richey D for the win!

[@sunyata4974]

Sex is binary. There is one human race, not a spectrum.

[@Aanthanur]

considering we still contain neanderthal DNA, i would say race is pretty much a spectrum. and not even sex is binary in science.

[@albert7311]

You’ll be saying dolphins are the same as people next seeing as we share 98.5% of our DNA with them. I guess it also means you care equally for me and other mammals as you do your own family. Us being the same and all.

[@Aanthanur]

@@albert7311 how does your race system work, how do you categorize people? what is the criteria to be member of one of those groups?

[@N1tr063nFr05trhym3]

Non sequitur

[@albert7311]

You can create a database of all genomes and using mathematics calculate the genetic distance between individuals. Clusters of individuals who are close together are of the same race.

[@annem9195]

Loved this!👏👍

[@jiminverness]

7:00 _"We rightly address her [HIM] with feminine pronouns"_ *No. You wrongly address HIM with feminine pronouns. Or rather, you **_could_** in his company talking to a third party refer to HIM using feminine pronouns to be polite, but when talking about HIM to your audience, you are very, very wrong to refer to HIM as "her."*

[@justmy2cents652]

I really hate that he thinks he need to pander to transsexuals. Why not accept them as what they are? People who wish to be the other sex/immitate characteristics of the opposite sex.

[@stddisclaimer8020]

And the man who thinks he's a dog bristles at his bowl being on the table not the floor. Not enough respect for the delusion!

[@nonyadamnbusiness9887]

Maybe. I'd rather it be that way. But, it's really a choice isn't it, whether or not to participate in another person's delusion?

[@stddisclaimer8020]

@@nonyadamnbusiness9887 One person having a delusion may seek psychological counseling. More than one person sharing a delusion, on a mass level (such as a nation, like Germany 1933-45) is nearly impossible to treat.

[@mr.mayhem7402]

This is the truth. Fundamental, unalterable reality.

[@jonnekallu1627]

"Race is a spectrum" Like visible light. But there's still distinct colors. Red, green, blue, ect.

[@saftheartist6137]

Excellent Video, your video brought up excellent points, that’ll sadly get ignored, because they’re too ahead of their time. 👏

[@roxee57]

Please turn on closed captions.

[@benjaminalexander8733]

I just wanted to say thank you for this. It made so much sense - I am grateful to have heard and understood it. Thanks again.

[@Lukiel666]

Jungian psychology. Animus and anima, or no one has either 100% male or 100% female characteristics. Or; most of the girls like to dance but only some of the boys do.

[@mr.mayhem7402]

Jung was not a biologist, and he would never have been stupid enough to pretend that he was.

[@richardfox6595]

Just thinking he has a vagina doesn't make a man female. If a woman studies engineering or a man nursing that isn't changing 3 billion chromosomes.

[@antman2826]

I don't use preferred pronouns because it is a lie. If someone has gender dysphoria they should understand that is a psychological condition that they have, and that is why they feel at odds with reality. Nobody should be compelled to cater to their delusions. This issue starts with them and shouldn't be made to be the concern of anyone else.

[@Aanthanur]

i do it for religious people so i do it for trans people, religious people have delusions too and we pretend they are normal.

[@Didleeios88]

Yes. This is where I split paths from Dawkins. He suggests that we ought to call people who have gone through with a full transition by their preferred pronouns. I'm not saying we are not allowed to call people by their pronouns. If you want to go ahead but there should not be no etiquette around it. The speaker's preferences are no less important than the delusional person's. If the mentally ill person cannot handle the real world they can be placed in an asylum for their protection.

[@Aanthanur]

@@Didleeios88 it is you that cant handle the real world and you are living in a hypothetical situation that will never happen in your life.

[@Didleeios88]

@@Aanthanur please elaborate. Which hypothetical situation?

[@Aanthanur]

@@Didleeios88 the situation where you notice a transperson and use the pronounce of the sex you assume they were before transition

[@nonyadamnbusiness9887]

Race is a construct, sex is not. Genetically a Y chromosome makes you male. Genetically there is more variability in sub-Saharan Africans than in all the rest of mankind. It's pedantic, but I'm going to point it out anyway. Whether having one native American great grandparent makes you native American depends on what tribe.

[@stevencarr4002]

'Genetically there is more variability in sub-Saharan Africans than in all the rest of mankind.' Yes, East Africans in Ethiopia have a lot of European genes that you don't find as much in West Africans. This means that medical research on one group of sub-Saharan Africans may be totally wrong for other groups.

[@waynemcauliffe-fv5yf]

Go Dawkins. Reality

[@tomgreene1843]

Biology!

[@waynemcauliffe-fv5yf]

@@tomgreene1843 Can`t beat that matey

[@nosotrosloslobosestamosreg4115]

Drinkable Water is a spectrum.

[@JamieZero7]

And dasani is not on it.

[@Aanthanur]

literally yes

[@lloydgush]

Race is not a spectrum. If it's a spectrum, it ain't a race, it's clines/ecotypes.

[@cheeks7050]

Race is a spectrum like species are a spectrum, the edges are grey, but it's also a real concept.

[@Aanthanur]

races is a made up concept, there is no definition of race, no system. its just people making up groups and they caqnt agree who belongs in which group as there is no system, its just bigoterry.

[@zyyl1949]

China isn’t as scientifically backward in this and have done some really interesting meta-analysis. The papers, ‘ Brain structure differences between Chinese and Caucasian cohorts: A comprehensive morphometry study’, and ‘ Brain asymmetry differences between Chinese and Caucasian populations: a surface-based morphometric comparison study’ both give very detailed analysis of the enormous differences

[@Aanthanur]

@@zyyl1949 chinese is a race now?

[@lucasmb86]

Species are discrete sets of beings with clear boundaries: beings of different species cannot generate fertile offspring. Races don't have clear boundaries.

[@sheilamacdougal4874]

Annoying camera clicks.

[@lycanblud]

Yr either a top or a bottom rite 😂

[@bigfoot8103]

Why are their hands so big? Yikes!

[@CaroAbebe]

Race isn’t a spectrum. There’s just one race, the human race. Science, you know?

[@michaelarthur8691]

Science says there is currently just one human SPECIES. There have previously been probably at least 8 human species, with perhaps at least three existing at the same time. Race certainly is, technically, a spectrum, though actually races were historically well defined by geographical boundaries, leading to speciation (look up ''ring species''). ''Race'' efffectively corresponds to the formal biological term ''sub-species'' (''a fairly permanent geographically isolated race'').

[@unowen-nh9ov]

Blood types aren't even universal & there are multiple medical issues defined & confined by race. Yes, we can procreate & transplant but that doesn't make us the same.

[@zauberkeit1234]

Is Dawkins the only or best expert on this? If not, why give a damn about his opinion on this topic?

[@megaloschemos9113]

Excellent 💯💯💯

[@N1tr063nFr05trhym3]

Let's say I don't love when people I admire gets too old and alienated to follow the actual discourse

[@skepticusmaximus184]

What's a goddamn "disk horse?" "I ain't no gambling man. HEY! How'd you even.get in? Now fetch me a nice salt beef and tomato sandwich."

[@BMTroubleU]

The dicourse has gone off the rails, jumped off a cliff and crashed into the twin towers. Noone can follow it because it's been demented by woke ideology.

[@mr.mayhem7402]

There's no "discourse" or "narrative" that falsifies the fundamental reality that Professor Dawkins has specialised in studying all his life. Anymore than there is any "discourse" or "narrative" that refuses the Earth going round the sun.

[@Aanthanur]

sex is complicate, much more so than we learned in school, Richard is getting old and is not up to date anymore. sad to see him fall.

[@SphincterOfDoom]

That doesn't mean it's a spectrum.

[@Aanthanur]

@@SphincterOfDoom considering the different kind of people we have, i would say it is. some have XYchromosomes but give birth have all organs, some haxe not all organs we associate with one sex. etc etc. its a huge mess in nature, not cleanly binary as we were told in school.

[@MolecularArts]

@@Aanthanur the existence of abnormalities does not mean that sex isn’t binary.

[@antman2826]

@@Aanthanur Yeah you really don't get it do you. I think Richard Dawkins knows far more about this than you do so just give up.

[@Vladishit_Putler]

wow, debating science with the argument of "he is old".... wow.....strong case you have there buddy...

[@jenna2431]

No one ever said Dawkins never made a mistake. But he did this time. He's ignoring the science - mostly probably because he's found himself to be on that sexual spectrum in an uncomfortable place.

[@Gatheist]

Sigh 🙄🤡. What science? Yes I know sex and gender are different, and yes I know about dsds and extra chromosomes, but none of that changes the fact that the plumbing goes in either one direction or the other in relation to producing the only two types of gametes that there are in mammalian reproduction. Yes I know about asexual reproduction and some species can change sex to increase the likelihood of reproductive success, but we are mammals, we can’t/dont do that, and note that when we artificially attempt to do so we are rendered infertile and the likelihood of reproductive success is reduced to zero.

[@Aanthanur]

@@Gatheist www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2190741/ here, proof that sex , not gender, is complicated and can very well be considered a spectrum.

[@antman2826]

Sounds like you're inventing "the Science" out of whole cloth to fit with the current fad. Clearly you drank the Kool-Aid and think you're a better person for it. Reality doesn't always give you the answers you want. Sorry, but your ideology can't exist in a scientific framework. Your reasoning that Dawkins must have come to an uncomfortable realisation just shows how you are clutching at straws in trying to justify you fanciful ideology.

[@lynnej.9357]

Nope.

[@antman2826]

You're wrong dude.... clearly you are clutching at straws if this is how you back yourself up. Embarrassing....