Any way someone could make this post more educational?
I read it as a "flawed illustration". I'm sure there's things left out of the allegory but idk what would be dunkable, I'm guessing there's something I don't know.
Right, yeah, there's an interesting sort of "third state" on that bimodal distribution of color.
I think that there are more advanced ways of understanding gender than lumping all nb people into just one color of "in-betweeness", but on a more basic level it shows that if something occurs bimodally, there is plenty of room for things to exist in between.
I think this tweet explains the concept pretty intuitively.
To make it more explicit, you could record a GIF placing the two gradients: pure red (#FF0000) & pure green (#00FF00).
Tell them that red is "man", green is "woman", & blue is "attack helicopter" or "dog", then demonstrate the huge "number" of values between red & green by color-picking random spots on the canvas. Challenge them to find a spot on the canvas has even a smidgen of blue.
Explain the perception of a gender binary by saying most colors are approximately red or approximately green, yet there is still a spectrum of in-between values impossible to succinctly enumerate.
If they genuinely have further questions, it'll be a good opportunity to teach. If not, they're probably deliberately trying to misunderstand.
Any way someone could make this post more educational?
I read it as a "flawed illustration". I'm sure there's things left out of the allegory but idk what would be dunkable, I'm guessing there's something I don't know.
assuming this is good faith.
what color would you say this is:
according to [this random web app](https://www.color-name.com/hex/927d0f) it is:
aka not Green and not Red.
and it's the predominant color in the middle section of OP's gradient
Right, yeah, there's an interesting sort of "third state" on that bimodal distribution of color.
I think that there are more advanced ways of understanding gender than lumping all nb people into just one color of "in-betweeness", but on a more basic level it shows that if something occurs bimodally, there is plenty of room for things to exist in between.
Important to note that the quoted tweet says sex, not gender, so i think its actually about intersex people?
I think this tweet explains the concept pretty intuitively.
To make it more explicit, you could record a GIF placing the two gradients: pure red (
#FF0000) & pure green (#00FF00).Tell them that red is "man", green is "woman", & blue is "attack helicopter" or "dog", then demonstrate the huge "number" of values between red & green by color-picking random spots on the canvas. Challenge them to find a spot on the canvas has even a smidgen of blue.
Explain the perception of a gender binary by saying most colors are approximately red or approximately green, yet there is still a spectrum of in-between values impossible to succinctly enumerate.
If they genuinely have further questions, it'll be a good opportunity to teach. If not, they're probably deliberately trying to misunderstand.