• over_clox@lemmy.world
    6·
    3 months ago

    Just remember, all your bones are wet. Well, except the ones you keep in the basement and attic…

  • Sundray@lemmus.orgEnglish
    6·
    3 months ago

    While skeletons are not required to wear clothes, there’s no rule that says you can’t wear a sweet top hat or perhaps some stylish heavy chains.

  • krooklochurm
    4·
    3 months ago

    If the skeleton war gets any worse then we are all well and truly boned

  • Lembot_0005@lemy.lol
    32·
    3 months ago

    Skeletons (human ones at least) have gender: male\female bones are slightly different.

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      91·
      3 months ago

      I was going to say this, but:

      Sex != Gender.

      Sex: basically, XX vs XY genetics

      Gender: basically, social norms, brain chemistry, hormone levels, which often, but not always, correspond to XX or XY genetics

      (lets also simplify out intersex, “hermaphroditic”, and various rare sexual chromosomal variants, for simplicity)

      You need the brain, the nervous system, the endocrine system, whole bunch of other stuff to even start to try to make that call.

      There is a reason the term is ‘sexual dimorphism’, not ‘gender dimorphism’.

      We find skeletons of ancient humans, with bones indicating likely one particular sex, but, other cultural markers, grave goods, etc, indicating gender non conformity with the norm for that culture at that time.

      Like, thats a huge part of how we know that something like what we now call trans people, or at the very least lgbtq+ people of some kind, have literally existed for longer than written human history.

      EDIT:

      So, to try to give a tldr:

      Skeletal proportions basically do have sexes, excepting pretty rare cases of intersex, non XX or XY situations, or potentially other rare genetic skeletal abnormalities that can make sexual distinction from a skeleton alone difficult, like dwarfism, gigantism, etc.

      Skeletons do not have genders.

      Just full stop, they don’t, you can’t figure that out definitively from just a skeleton alone.