Oddbean

in essence Binary Thinking is one of the fundamental limitation of low IQ minds high IQ people think in terms of complex functions. low IQ people can only think in terms of Yes or No. Are you a Republican or are you a Democrat ? Are you man or woman ? Are you an adult or a minor ? and so on ... @Mike Dilger

low IQ people make themselves feel better by bleating " there are only two genders " like goats ... meanwhile there are 6 genders in Talmud for example ... but Talmud wasn't written by people with intelligence level of a Trump voter ... it isn't so much that there are 2 genders it's that the complexity level of a Trump Voter Brain is only able to process two genders ... it's the same as how 100 IQ people retards ask " is this car gas or electric ? " it's a " plug in hybrid ??? " isn't that SATANIC ??? @Mike Dilger

There are structural reasons why there are only two sexes. Even in flowers it's the same. One sex is compelled to expend resources (few large cessile gametes) and the other gets away with wild proliferation with little cost (many small motile gametes). In plants, the male is "pollen", it goes everywhere and is not discerning at all. Females put in far more effort and must be selective due to the cost they put in. The males are really taking advantage of that, knowing the female will do it so they are free to fuck anything that moves and still have a really good shot of passing on their genes without putting in the effort. Because there are two sexes there are two genders, evolved to help direct reproduction towards successful mating pairs. If I couldn't tell a man from a woman, half my sexual encounters would be unfruitful. If people want to make more genders like the "blue hair" gender, what they are signalling is "fucking me is pointless." I guess I'm ok with that. I'd prefer to know up front.

you're making one false assumption here - namely that it's the goal of a herd or tribe to produce as much offspring as possible - that is not the case at all take ants for example - all the ants you see are female - but they never produce offspring - instead there is only one queen per colony which is born the same as any of the female workers - but is chosen to become a queen and fed a high protein diet and develops into a queen WHAT IF homosexuals are like worker ants ? let's do some math if a girl starts having kids at 13 and stops at 35 she could give birth 30 times and if some of those are twins she could have as many as 40 kids or so. yet we couldn't have evolved around exponential growth. we must have some mechanism as a species to control our own population growth to stabilize it given finite resources. in Calhoun's mouse experiments the mouse population totally collapses with an infinite supply of food - why ? because the genetic mechanism used to control population malfunctions in an artificial environment. actually modern cities are deliberately engineered by the elites to recreate Calhoun's mouse utopia conditions in order to trigger rapid depopulation, and it is possible that homosexuals and other deviants are a mechanism by which the nature attempts to stabilize population growth. yes we have xenoestrogens deliberately added to our environment but homosexuality existed before microplastics. it would be interesting to see if it existed predominantly in cities. if we can accept that homosexuality is "natural" then we can accept that trannies are a phenomenon distinct from simply men pretending to be women. if Ants can have 3 genders - why can't humans ?

every male that becomes a tranny is 1 fewer men and 1 more women in the dating pool increasing the value of men and decreasing the value of women. it is understandable that women would be against this, especially feminists who are already too ugly to get laid even without having to compete with trannies for the dwindling number of real men. but for men to be against this is simply low IQ bible humping behavior. do trannies kill themselves ? sure. but they kill themselves due to bullying by the very same people who pretend to be opposed to tranny-ism because it results in these very deaths they are themselves causing. it's almost like Israel "defending itself" ... and comes courtesy of the same crowd ( Christian MAGA Zionists ) as well. did you hear recently at a Trump event his supporters chanting "Jesus" at him, basically saying that Trump is the 2nd coming of Jesus ... even Trump himself was visibly disgusted by this subhuman behavior ... this is the type of people who make themselves feel better by chanting "there are only 2 genders" all the time. yes of course most trannies are victims of their mentally ill mothers who are either virtue signaling or have Munchausen by Proxy syndrome where they victimize their child in order to then shop for sympathy ... you would think Christian MAGA Turds would be attacking these mothers for this ? but no. they attach the child victims. because mothers are from Jesus and Trannies are from Satan. or something retarded like this. so they bully these kids to suicide and then be like " why would demonKKKrats do this ? " not trying to absolve liberals from guilt either just believe that as the greatest intellectual on NOSTR it is my duty to attack my own side because any mid-wit can attack the other side.

If you understand ant reproduction you'll understand why they work that way. Males are born from sterile eggs, they inherit genes only from their mother. Females inherit from both, just like all humans. This means, female ants are closer related to their siblinfs than their children. They share 75% of genetic material with their siblings vs 50% with their children. The selfish gene and all that, there is a selective pressure in such an organism to become eusocial. I can see calling it 3 genders, but it isn't quite right, there are still 2 sexes, and female workers are capable of reproduction. But in a eusocial species, the individual isn't the organism, the colony is. The individuals are like somatic cells, and the queen is the germ line. Humans are not eusocial, just social. We show characteristics of eusocialty, but we aren't quite there. Above, you talked about the tribe and a reproductive aged girl spitting out kids until she was unable, and you're right, a tribe doesn't want to grow as much as possible, but it isn't as simple as that. People like to reproduce as much as is successful. Human children require care, we aren't alligators, so spitting out babies is not the most efficient approach, they all die. The most efficient approach is to spit out as many as you can rear with the resources available to you, and doing your best to maximize their survival. But the tribe, the tribe is something like an organism all it's own, I'm sure you're familiar with Dunbar's number, a tribe with too many people is unhealthy, as is a tribe with too few. So the tribe's goal is to reproduce, to splinter, to form a separate related tribe to cooperate with. And a tribe's behavior is a result of it's culture, it's culture is a result of which behaviors led the tribe to be healthiest, there's a natural selection there as well, its turtles all the way down. If a tribe is capable of managing resources maximally, it's members will reproduce maximally, and the tribe will grow and split, leaving 2 tribes with such successful culture and so on. Humans do attempt to reproduce successful adults as much as possible. I think you're probably right, from an evolutionary and reproductive standpoint, about homosexuality and other deviations from the norm with regard to sexual behavior.i

you're trying to succumb to the exact low IQ pitfall i have outlined namely you are trying to bin species as either eusocial or not in a binary fashion instead of binary Yes/No - think in terms of continuums / spectrums and instead of one dimension think infinite dimensions ( this doesn't apply to our subject at hand, bit is needed to understand the absurdity of describing political positions as left wing or right wing ) at the very least don't try to impose limitations of your cognitive capacity ( everyone's cognitive capacity is finite, it is not a knock or personal attack ) on infinite time/space or whatever the fuck it is we live in i will concede that humans seem to have a mode where one man mates one woman for life called marriage and this is supported by the fact that equal number of men and women are born ... if such a mode of reproduction didn't exist it would be hard to justify having equal number of men and women as one man can breed many women, so there is SOME basis for monogamy in our biology ... and yet what if there are also alternative modes ( other than monogamy ) used in times of overpopulation / scarce resources or in times of war or in any kind of special circumstances ? what if Christian concept of marriage is a procrustean bed ? in fact monogamy is crippling to evolution. evolution is most effective when alphas breed many women and betas get cucked because that is what favors the seed of stronger men whereas monogamy doesn't. a monogamous society will evolve weak men who will ultimately be conquered by stronger men that have evolved through alphas dominating betas. Christianity is a religion of stupidity and weakness. Nietzsche explained this and he was right.

actually now that i think of it the two ( or more than two ) are not mutually exclusive. you can have monogamous marriage and a woman can be married to a beta or a homosexual and be impregnated by an alpha who is married to somebody else. that is the monogamous marriage cell may be useful for raising children but the children may be somebody else's. i think it was a Jew who said that the secret to happy life is to get married ... and cheat. i was never able to find a flaw in that argument. in other words all women are the same ( all women are bisexual but will submit to whoever is strongest, which happens to be men ) but men fall into at least 3 categories: Alphas, Betas and Homosexuals - in other words men who lay claim to ALL women, to just ONE woman and to NO women. this strange urge MAGA Christians have to make everybody equal and interchangeable ( a man is a man and all men are the same ) is oddly communist for people seemingly obsessed with fighting communism. reality is of course that Christianity is spiritual communism, whereas Communism is economic / statist Christianity. and both Communism and Christianity ( as well as Capitalism and Atheism ) are controlled by the Jews.

OK, but fungi have multiple sexes, what about them? You still need 2, always, but the sexes in fungi have lots to choose from. What's up with that? (Not disagreeing with your assessment, just a thought that occurred to me.)