content/drafts/commentary-on-david-maciver-on-gendering.md

   1 Title: Commentary on David R. MacIver on Gendering
   2 Date: 2020-01-01
   3 Category: commentary
   4 Tags: sex differences
   5 Status: draft
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   7 Mathematician–programmer David R. MacIver (author of the [Hypothesis](https://hypothesis.works/) property-testing framework and the _tragically_ [unfinished](https://www.drmaciver.com/2017/09/programmer-at-large-progress-report/) serial ["Programmer-at-Large"](https://archiveofourown.org/works/9233966/chapters/20941043)) has a [new post on the social process of gendering](https://www.drmaciver.com/2019/09/gendering/).
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   9 Overall, I really like this post! [...]
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  11 I guess my main question is, what's with the heroic efforts to avoid acknowledging the concept of biological sex?
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  13 Right? The question of what gender is "seems to be a very hard one to answer well," MacIver writes. Is it? What's wrong with ["social roles based on the sex of [a] person"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_and_gender_distinction)?
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  15 MacIver is clearly not a biological sex denialist.
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  19 https://theotherlifenow.com/respectability-is-not-worth-it-reply-to-slatestarcodex/