It's the classic:
"It's grade school biology!"
"Okay, but when you get to middle school..."
It's the classic:
"It's grade school biology!"
"Okay, but when you get to middle school..."
Meanwhile french plugs and outlets :

Not gonna lie.. my first reaction to that in this context is "two in the pink one in the stink". Now I feel dirty, thanks, Beryl.
Another perfect example of flawed analogies and kneejerk conclusions vs. the benefit of thinking about it for a few seconds
like proving homosexuality isn't real because magnets
It's simple. Humans aren't cables. Any questions?
They're more complex than cables. Not less.
Did you know under the right conditions you can urinate from your belly button?
Fun fact, the plugs used in Europe are intersex.
US has those too, theyre 480v usually

fucking yikes.
that things safety feature is "anyone with intrusive thoughts has long since been eliminated from consideration"
Without having looked it up yet, I would assume that the exposed contacts are neutral/ground
hot damn. I once lived in a house that used a contraption like this to feed elctricity from one circuit into another. I didn't know and I touched one end... I did fall off the ladder, but I'm still alive.
Of course this analogy is even more flawed than OOP's.
Most circuit boards are an absolute pride parade. You have your male to male/female to female connectors, MtF/FtM transformers, master/slave setups, multiport adapters, splitters, switches, docking, etc
There are also gender benders... Turn male to female or female to male.
Another example where this argument falls flat is spaceship docking connectors, which are genderless so they can all dock to every other one.
In space being heteronormative is less useful.
My favorites are the ones where the plug is live and the socket draws power, and if you hold the plug wrong you die.
Beware the forbidden extension cable.

The perpetual power cord.
I present to you the IBM hemaphroditic connector!

Behold: RP-SMA

No one tell the straights about generator pigtails
Old Czechoslovak oval 380V (3-phase 220V) plugs have 4 genders. The contact gender depends on whether the receptacle is a power source or sink, the sleeve gender depends on whether it's a cable mount (innie) or wall mount (outie). I hate this, they could have made it work with two while still keeping the water resistance flaps like the new CEE round ones.
| Contact gender | Plug | Receptacle |
|---|---|---|
| Female | ![]() |
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| Male | ![]() |
This meant that people needed contraptions like this to extend cables:

We have a homemade one with a dodgy wooden base, and two outputs: one has two phases swapped for counterclockwise power.
The only universal truth is that there's a mate for everybody.
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