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[-] CaptainMcMonkey@lemmy.world 34 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 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.

[-] Jumi@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago
[-] Wogi@lemmy.world 5 points 6 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

[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 5 points 6 months ago

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

[-] UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago

I thought it was because Venus spins in the opposite direction from most others planets.

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