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Fear their power (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[–] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

That was my thought as well. That many sexes, if they can be called sexes, basically means everyone would have a single indeterminate sex. Imagine filling a form and selecting your sex among a 20K list of names.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    You wouldn't be choosing between 20k it's in four sets of 9, 32, 9, and 9 so each would have four descriptors that would make up their mating configuration

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago*

    Excuse me, but that’s like saying “my sex is 20x10x10x10”. The combinations are still in the thousands even if you use different notation. It’s like representing male/female as 0/1 and saying it only uses one bit, but everyone still hast to remember the name and expectations associated with that bit.

    A sentient species with so many sex combinations would not bother to name each one, or attach specific sociocultural traits to all of them. Humans, for example, know like 10-20k words, passing sex ed would be like reaching master level in a foreign language. It would be a tag with less meaning, like age, height, or blood type are.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    There are more than 20K cities/towns to choose from and most forms have auto-complete for that. So I think we could make it work and if it was an essential part of your identity, I imagine people would come to recognize most of them just by name over time

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