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The Metaphysics of Gender Identity: A series of inquiries on gender, identity, behavior, and biology.

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  Hello everyone This is yet another dry and serious piece about gender. A BDunicorn classic! But like before we get into that. Let's talk about color theory. A common thing people say is that the Ancient Greeks did not have blue, or at least the concept of blue-ness. Did they literally not see blue or did they see blue as not a color in its own right. Does blue exist?  Well of course it does, I am sure if you asked people if blue exists, they would say of course it fucking does, look at the sky you silly dingdong. Yet, that was the thing. The sky was just the sky, not blue, things were like the sky or like the ocean, but they were not blue. Some people would say Grue rather than blue, as blue and green are sub-colors of grue. This is actually a real linguistic concept called blue-green distinction, but don't worry about it for now. Color seems so obvious. It's light and stuff. I am sure any physicists can smart-splain to me how it actually works It's all light, on a sp