>>Well, since nuns are usually "Sister X" and monks are generally "Brother X", they could do like a sect in Steve Perry's Matador series and call themselves the Siblings of [whatever].<<
I was more wondering the job title (monk/nun/?what?) instead of title (Brother/Sister/Sibling). For alternatives to 'sibling' I've seen 'sibs' and 'brosis' used in various fanfics.
There was another one where someone is described as "...your sister-brother," (by a new friend trying to be polite, despite unfamiliarity with the situation/culture) which gets a round of laughter and the explanation that the person is female but has taken a male social role, so 'sister' is the appropriate term - at least until she needs to pull a Sweet Polly Oliver to get military training from sexist jerks.
>>>Some intersex conditions make pregnancy impossible (wrong hormone balance or lacking necessary organs). Others make fathering a child impossible for the same reasons. Others will allow one or the other. It's unlikely that both would be possible in the same person (and if it did happen, they'd have to worry about self-impregnation).<<
Humans are incapable of true hermaphroditic self-fertilization, as the relevant organs can either develop into a fertile female set or a fertile male set but not both simultaneously, and we only have the one set. Intersex development is possible, but may or may not be fertile.
Parthenogenesis is held to be scientifically impossible in humans (though it does appear in various mythologies). And I will note that while science can induce cloning and similar, such tech would not be available in the post-apocalypse.
>>Something Ysabet didn't mention but might be a possibility, if not with this group, then with others, is a fairly common sex/gender system. Found in a number of places around the world.<<
Huh, our society seems to be moving in that direction. Possibly with a bit more of a gradient between the binary and non-binary genders.
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Date: 2021-05-24 07:16 pm (UTC)I was more wondering the job title (monk/nun/?what?) instead of title (Brother/Sister/Sibling). For alternatives to 'sibling' I've seen 'sibs' and 'brosis' used in various fanfics.
There was another one where someone is described as "...your sister-brother," (by a new friend trying to be polite, despite unfamiliarity with the situation/culture) which gets a round of laughter and the explanation that the person is female but has taken a male social role, so 'sister' is the appropriate term - at least until she needs to pull a Sweet Polly Oliver to get military training from sexist jerks.
>>>Some intersex conditions make pregnancy impossible (wrong hormone balance or lacking necessary organs). Others make fathering a child impossible for the same reasons. Others will allow one or the other. It's unlikely that both would be possible in the same person (and if it did happen, they'd have to worry about self-impregnation).<<
Humans are incapable of true hermaphroditic self-fertilization, as the relevant organs can either develop into a fertile female set or a fertile male set but not both simultaneously, and we only have the one set. Intersex development is possible, but may or may not be fertile.
Parthenogenesis is held to be scientifically impossible in humans (though it does appear in various mythologies). And I will note that while science can induce cloning and similar, such tech would not be available in the post-apocalypse.
>>Something Ysabet didn't mention but might be a possibility, if not with this group, then with others, is a fairly common sex/gender system. Found in a number of places around the world.<<
Huh, our society seems to be moving in that direction. Possibly with a bit more of a gradient between the binary and non-binary genders.