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[–] xxce2AAb 49 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"Look, I'm glad someone's having fun, but I'm not memorizing that set of pronouns!"

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

When you have that many sexes, I think everyone would just use they/them. Don't want to assume incorrectly.

[–] TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub 3 points 1 day ago (1 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.

[–] habs@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub 2 points 1 day ago

If my species had 20K sexes, sex wouldn’t be an essential part of my identity. It would be like my fingerprints being part of my personality.