Re: db.debian.org (and related infrastructure) updates
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On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 04:15:53PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Kevin Mark <kevin.mark@verizon.net> writes:
>
> > I was considering: sex & gender options and realized that the only
> > reasonably non-changing question would be 'sex chromosomes'[0] which can
> > be XX or XY (unless gravity or any person with relevant info can add to
> > this).
>
> Sex chromosones in humans can, indeed, be found in several combinations
> other than XX or XY (XO, XXX, XXY, XYY, XO/XY, XX male, and XY female at
> the least), and we don't even know for sure that the full set of
> possibilities is enumerable. Also, sex chromosones aren't the same thing
> as gender. Generally speaking, and this is a difficult area of language
> in which all generalizations are suspect, "sex" is a statement about a
> biological property and "gender" is a statement about a social property.
Hi Russ,
thats for the elucidation... Now I'm even more confused x-) I'm blinded
by science!(thanks to thomas dolby). More to ponder in the comming year.
cheers,
Kev
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