This knife is relatively blunt and tame-looking. I wouldn’t recommend peeling an apple with it.
Here is another knife, which Cuts Stuff.
This is a beast of a knife. You could peel an apple with this. And your fingers, if you’re not careful.
This is a fork. Its function is to Spear Stuff.
This is a pretty fork.
This is another fork, and it Spears Stuff.
It has a different number of Spearing Things to the fork before. No worries, it still works just as well. I wouldn’t use it to Spear Peas en route to mouth though, unless you want disapproving looks and immediate danger to eyes.
This is a broken knife. By altering your technique, you could still Cut Stuff with it, but it’s suboptimal function.
This is not a fork. It is not More Fork than an intact knife.
This is a broken fork that likes heavy metal.
It still works to Spear Stuff.
It doesn’t Cut Stuff. It is not a knife.
This is a knork, combining both the functions of Cutting Stuff and Spearing Stuff in one implement.
Easier to make knorks rather than separate knives and forks, but total functionality of knorks is more limited than having two separate implements.
If it works for you, great.
One could cut channels into a blunt knife and turn it into a fork. Maybe one could also sharpen a single-tined fork to render it a knife.
Switching from Cutting Stuff to Spearing Stuff (or vice versa) is a functional switch.
No pictures of this process were available.
Cutting Stuff and Spearing Stuff are two sub-functions that form the wider function of Eating Stuff.
The purpose of this analogy is to demonstrate that one can elucidate two different and complementary functions, *regardless* of how those functions are split (or not) across implements. One can elucidate function even in broken implements.
There is a spectrum of implements. There is no spectrum of function.
There is no implement that Scoops Stuff in the system of sex.
This is a pair of chopsticks. They have no discernible differential function.
Left hand, right hand, whichever you use for whatever piece of food, it makes no difference.
They get the job done, but imagine if you made one a little pointier and one with a flatter edge…
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The cervix is a region of the uterus. It has a unique cellular and tissue composition, mirroring its unique functions within the female sexual and reproductive cycle.
Here is a helpful diagram.
I have written about its development, structure and function here.
In 2015, the British Psychology Society submitted evidence to Maria Miller’s Transgender Equality Enquiry that male sex offenders have been known to falsely claim trans status as ‘female’.
Reasons for exploitation of GRA laws by predatory males included: 1. demonstrating reduced risk > parole 2. explaining their sex offending 3. separating from their sex offending self 4. better access to females and young children through presenting in an apparently female way.
For years, many of us have foreseen how males who are not trans but who are violent, cynical predators will use the legal loophole created by selfID.
‘There are many factors that may contribute to competition success in tennis – height, weight, reach, power, speed, nutrition, good coaching, other environmental factors, etc. – but they cannot be balanced against the categorial factor of sex.’
In 1977, we sent two records into interstellar space. The records contain the story of humans, such that any intercepting alien race can begin to understand us.