Adam Davis
@scholarinexile.bsky.social
College professor, union officer and labor activist, avid gamer, anthropologist and evolutionary biologist, writer for Windmill Game Company, science and medical historian. I’m an unapologetic leftist, pagan, polyamorous, and love cats.
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November 24, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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To answer your previous question, I suppose my theoretical perspective is closer to Fuentes than anyone else although it’s in informed by some other thinkers, although I’m admittedly about to Dr. and not in a position to give a bibliography
November 20, 2025 at 10:20 PM
To answer your previous question, I suppose my theoretical perspective is closer to Fuentes than anyone else although it’s in informed by some other thinkers, although I’m admittedly about to Dr. and not in a position to give a bibliography
No, because not all social roles are gender roles. Or one or several types of social roles, and it overlaps many other ones. Gender is an overarching one. That can encompass and other types of rolls as well. And I feel like if you take the sort of classes, you’re describing you should know that?
November 20, 2025 at 10:19 PM
No, because not all social roles are gender roles. Or one or several types of social roles, and it overlaps many other ones. Gender is an overarching one. That can encompass and other types of rolls as well. And I feel like if you take the sort of classes, you’re describing you should know that?
And it’s not a stable or universal concept. Gender is individually constructed by different cultures and can be understood by the individual in the context of their own culture to deviate from the norms of their culture in a multicultural society
November 20, 2025 at 10:17 PM
And it’s not a stable or universal concept. Gender is individually constructed by different cultures and can be understood by the individual in the context of their own culture to deviate from the norms of their culture in a multicultural society
I do not have a separate opinion on gender, divorced from the scientific perspective of what gender is. I’m a scientist. That is how I inform my view of it. Opinion does not figure into that. Gender is a social construction for how an individual understands their identity and position in a culture.
November 20, 2025 at 10:15 PM
I do not have a separate opinion on gender, divorced from the scientific perspective of what gender is. I’m a scientist. That is how I inform my view of it. Opinion does not figure into that. Gender is a social construction for how an individual understands their identity and position in a culture.
Gender is a set of social roles. It’s a social construction for framing ones expectations, behavior, and role in society, and it’s a psychological framework as well as a behavioral one. That’s the definition I’m using. That’s my operational framework. I don’t know what else you expect here
November 20, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Gender is a set of social roles. It’s a social construction for framing ones expectations, behavior, and role in society, and it’s a psychological framework as well as a behavioral one. That’s the definition I’m using. That’s my operational framework. I don’t know what else you expect here
I am using the framework that is employed within the disciplines of cultural antrhhopogy, psychology, and medicine. That’s not just a dictionary definition, it’s a framework for understanding. You’re asking me to summarize about three or four academic courses in 200 letter posts.
November 20, 2025 at 10:11 PM
I am using the framework that is employed within the disciplines of cultural antrhhopogy, psychology, and medicine. That’s not just a dictionary definition, it’s a framework for understanding. You’re asking me to summarize about three or four academic courses in 200 letter posts.
No, not stereotypes. Stereotypes are different than frameworks for understanding behavior. You’re profoundly oversimplifying. It’s socially constructed and that’s much broader than a stereotype. Yes, people have a gender. It’s a social construct. An identity and a set of roles and behaviors they use
November 20, 2025 at 10:08 PM
No, not stereotypes. Stereotypes are different than frameworks for understanding behavior. You’re profoundly oversimplifying. It’s socially constructed and that’s much broader than a stereotype. Yes, people have a gender. It’s a social construct. An identity and a set of roles and behaviors they use
They are telling you what specific so pal construction of gender they fit within. Gender is a social construct. They are explaining how their construction of gender works.
November 20, 2025 at 10:06 PM
They are telling you what specific so pal construction of gender they fit within. Gender is a social construct. They are explaining how their construction of gender works.
I answered what gender is really really thoroughly. I don’t know what else you want. I don’t have a personal definition of gender that differs from the scientific definition of it because the meaning of gender *is not a matter of opinion.* I don’t know what else you want from me.
November 20, 2025 at 10:05 PM
I answered what gender is really really thoroughly. I don’t know what else you want. I don’t have a personal definition of gender that differs from the scientific definition of it because the meaning of gender *is not a matter of opinion.* I don’t know what else you want from me.
Are* easy to find.
November 20, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Are* easy to find.
I figured it was bait. I figured it was bad faith. But…I give everyone one chance to listen and be a good human and learn. I won’t waste more time if they refuse it. And hopefully what I wrote will help someone else learning to recognize bad faith actors, or exploring sex vs. gender in good faith.
November 20, 2025 at 9:27 PM
I figured it was bait. I figured it was bad faith. But…I give everyone one chance to listen and be a good human and learn. I won’t waste more time if they refuse it. And hopefully what I wrote will help someone else learning to recognize bad faith actors, or exploring sex vs. gender in good faith.
I tried my best. I made a good faith effort. It’s all I can do. But I won’t be lured into ideological traps.
November 20, 2025 at 9:21 PM
I tried my best. I made a good faith effort. It’s all I can do. But I won’t be lured into ideological traps.
I’m an educator. I’ll always give people a chance to learn, listen, and ideally grow from there. Whether they do anything with that is up to them. But if they continue with the plan they had the whole time…I can’t help them if they’re entrenched and never planned to listen to an alternative view.
November 20, 2025 at 9:19 PM
I’m an educator. I’ll always give people a chance to learn, listen, and ideally grow from there. Whether they do anything with that is up to them. But if they continue with the plan they had the whole time…I can’t help them if they’re entrenched and never planned to listen to an alternative view.
I offered a chance to engage honestly. I figured it wasn’t going to go well, but I gave it a shot. I now see where this is going, and I won’t be dragged down with it into someone’s ideological pit. I’m too busy for that.
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November 20, 2025 at 9:17 PM
I offered a chance to engage honestly. I figured it wasn’t going to go well, but I gave it a shot. I now see where this is going, and I won’t be dragged down with it into someone’s ideological pit. I’m too busy for that.
I just answered this in extensive detail. You’re sealioning.
November 20, 2025 at 9:11 PM
I just answered this in extensive detail. You’re sealioning.
So while gender is a social construction, it has an impact on biology in ways we are only just starting to understand. And the people trying to deny all of this when they make public policy are flat out ignoring biological and medical reality.
November 20, 2025 at 9:06 PM
So while gender is a social construction, it has an impact on biology in ways we are only just starting to understand. And the people trying to deny all of this when they make public policy are flat out ignoring biological and medical reality.
Considerable data suggests that some aspects of gender ARE partially biological; that our brains literally wire our neuropathways around our self-identified gender identities from a young age. Transgender folks literally exhibit brain scans that look more like those of their identified gender.
November 20, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Considerable data suggests that some aspects of gender ARE partially biological; that our brains literally wire our neuropathways around our self-identified gender identities from a young age. Transgender folks literally exhibit brain scans that look more like those of their identified gender.
Western society, looking at gender constructions globally, is unusual in thinking in terms of two strictly fixed genders mapped to two strictly fixed sexes with no possibility of change and no neutral option. And sex is definitely more complex than a strict m/f binary. Gametes aren’t the whole story
November 20, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Western society, looking at gender constructions globally, is unusual in thinking in terms of two strictly fixed genders mapped to two strictly fixed sexes with no possibility of change and no neutral option. And sex is definitely more complex than a strict m/f binary. Gametes aren’t the whole story
Some cultures consider gender to fall into fixed categories; some consider it to be a flexible or variable trait that one may change from one gender to another during their lifetime. Many cultures embrace the idea that one may lack a gender or have multiple genders. Most accept more than two. /2
November 20, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Some cultures consider gender to fall into fixed categories; some consider it to be a flexible or variable trait that one may change from one gender to another during their lifetime. Many cultures embrace the idea that one may lack a gender or have multiple genders. Most accept more than two. /2
Gender is a set of social roles, behavioral expectations, identities, and often rules of conduct and expression, socially constructed within a given culture and particular to that culture. It may or may not be linked to biological sex in the views of that culture and may or may not be changeable. /1
November 20, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Gender is a set of social roles, behavioral expectations, identities, and often rules of conduct and expression, socially constructed within a given culture and particular to that culture. It may or may not be linked to biological sex in the views of that culture and may or may not be changeable. /1
As an evolutionary biologist I get that a LOT. I have gotten into very, very few good faith arguments about evolution. And honestly, the few that I got into came away convinced of its validity.
November 20, 2025 at 8:36 PM
As an evolutionary biologist I get that a LOT. I have gotten into very, very few good faith arguments about evolution. And honestly, the few that I got into came away convinced of its validity.
But if a good faith argument is not what you’re interested in, and being informed about the facts is a concern because you’re threatened with possibly finding out things you don’t want to know that my threaten your preestablished ideology or worldview…Then don’t do the homework. And don’t ask me to.
November 20, 2025 at 8:03 PM
But if a good faith argument is not what you’re interested in, and being informed about the facts is a concern because you’re threatened with possibly finding out things you don’t want to know that my threaten your preestablished ideology or worldview…Then don’t do the homework. And don’t ask me to.
Of course… All of this applies only if you are interested in any good faith argument, and not in doubting a pre-determined ideology. I decided my position after doing the work. Being informed about the science behind sex and gender left me firmly on the side of rights for trans folks. /17
November 20, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Of course… All of this applies only if you are interested in any good faith argument, and not in doubting a pre-determined ideology. I decided my position after doing the work. Being informed about the science behind sex and gender left me firmly on the side of rights for trans folks. /17
Does it take effort? Yes. It will take some time to learn. It’s worth it. When you put in the time, you’ll come out better informed, and you may very well find you no longer need to argue because many of your questions will have been answered. /16
November 20, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Does it take effort? Yes. It will take some time to learn. It’s worth it. When you put in the time, you’ll come out better informed, and you may very well find you no longer need to argue because many of your questions will have been answered. /16