Thread:Xovvic/@comment-27069645-20160714222021/@comment-27195335-20160715060043

You can define those words that way. But then you run into complications when you run into women with androgen insensitivity, or even women who don't produce ova. People have been trying and failing to produce a coherent binary definition of gender based on biology, and biology keeps being too messy. And Cultural definitions vary culture to culture and are not at all binary (since I know your google works, you can google "cultures that recognize more than 2 genders).

Worse still, you keep saying things like robots can't have gender and yet we--in the real world--keep gendering the robots we do build; and worse still, in fiction, the rules are even more flexible, and in *this* work of fiction, we have sentient robots who are obviously gendered.

You don't have a leg to stand on and you don't know enough about gender to know that you don't have a leg to stand on.