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SupersoakerJones233 karma

Yes, a XY or XX combination results in a male or female, respectively. Any other combination like a single X (Turner's syndrome) or XXY (Klinefelter's syndrome) is by definition an abnormality. Not to say that the people that develop from those genes are abnormal, just that sex is a binary system unless an abnormality occurs.

SupersoakerJones68 karma

http://www.cdc.gov/women/lcod/2013/index.htm

Domestic violence (or even violence in general) is not even in the top ten causes of death for women in the US.

http://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/pdf/nisvs_report2010-a.pdf

According to page 38 here, the number of men that have been victims of "rape, physical violence, and/or stalking" from an intimate partner is roughly the same as the number of women.

SupersoakerJones12 karma

Do you think it has done a good job of actually doing that? If you compare the muslim world today to the world of the Umayyad or Abbasid Caliphates, it seems like muslims have done a poor job of adapting to the modern world.

SupersoakerJones5 karma

Exactly! While Christians murder people too, we don't do it in the name of Christ.