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Do you think my dog knows gender? That mutt doesn’t know meatloaf from cigar ash, it’s one a them… constructions, y’know.I hate videos but isn’t this obviously very dependent on the animal. Humans obviously do, amoung non humans social roles and performative behaviours vary dramatically, like snakes don’t seem very gendered but some birds and spiders with elaborate mating rituals seem quite gendered.
Is there enough insight in this video to justify suffering though what could have been an article or is it just stating the obvious?
This is so real. I could comfortably and easily read 12,000 words in the time it would take me to watch this video. If you’re not talking this fast the entire time, I’d have been better off reading a transcript.
But I’m also the type of weirdo that reads at least a dozen journal articles a day just for fun. Video essays are clearly not for me (probably not for you either) so
whatcha gonna doso whatcha gonna do
Ask people to highlight if a video has uniquely insightful information, complain, and hope deaf people have enough power to pressure people into making transcripts available.
Also maybe yell at clouds.
I just liked the video and thought it was well done.
You don’t need to watch it of course if you really can’t stand watching videos. It’s totally up to you.
I’m just curious if they have any insight other than “maybe in some non human animals”
but some birds and spiders with elaborate mating rituals seem quite gendered.
they’re sexed at least, saying they’re gendered requires we know something about their interiority that we don’t.
Not really, I can make reasonable guesses that you have an experience of gender despite having no ability to empirically distinguish you from a p zombie.
Worms are sexed, flowers are sexed. They appear to not behave differently except around the specific mechanics of reproduction. Consider birds though, which have physiological sex differences yes, but also culture. They learn songs that have to be taught, they perform dances or flights which are practiced and refined over time, they build nests and offer gifts or enticements. These behaviours appear to be a cultural social experience, I don’t really see why we would look at a human man wearing Cologne approaching a human woman in a bar and going “hey baby, want some fuck?” as a gendered behaviour and not a satin bower bird performing a daring raid on my clothesline to have the sickest blue pegs to dance around to impress a lady bird as not a gendered behaviour.
In both cases we’re looking at people perform a set of actions they’ve learned which fit into correct social performance of roles generally linked to sex.
i do not have an internal experience gender
