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Cake day: November 21st, 2024

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  • Most people default to “this entity is male” without more context. I do it too, it’s a bit of an issue I try to be aware of but regularly fail. Male is default, female is marked; that’s why the stereotypical “girl” character in video games is just the “boy” character but with eye lashes and lips and maybe high heels. (And non-binary doesn’t exist, obv /s)

    So I can see this as making the non-genderedness explicit.

    Edit: I don’t have the spoons to elaborate on “male is default”. Can someone else maybe jump in? Thx.





  • Sentience is the ability to perceive your surroundings using your senses. What cows (probably) haven’t achieved is sapience, roughly the ability to think about more than your immediate sensual impressions, in the abstract. Modern humans have decided they are extra sapient, hence “homo sapiens sapiens” whereas Neanderthals are “homo sapiens neanderthalensis”.