• CaptainMcMonkey@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I think a lot of this joke refers to the Roman god Mars, and the Roman Goddess Venus, more than it does the planetary bodies. Roman and Greek mythology both have a lot of gender fuckery, so I think it’s pretty appropriate.

    That bing AI thing says there’s somewhere around 65 to 70 named Roman deities, so I’m gonna make a call and say that there are probably 69 genders.

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        10 months ago

        The spectrum is now divided in to precisely 69 individual genders. With men at one end and women at the other.

        Assuming gender follows a normal distribution, most people are binary, falling only slightly one way or the other

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          I would expect “men” and “women” to be like 3σ from the center, allowing for some other genders that are even more extreme but rare