As tribade, the hermaphrodite was a disruptive figure, not because her sex was indeterminable, but because her miming of the man's sexuality threatened the coherence of a sociosexual order regulated by reproduction

This is so weird to me because intersex people just don't seem to bother anyone anymore? Obviously ppl who are transphobic or weird about queer stuff are gonna find it gross but it's not so important anymore that it disrupts an order. Also, the sociosexual order (men are higher because they do the penetration while women are lower because they are penetrated) is such an odd idea to modern me. I know we talk about the order itself a lot but I wonder exactly why or how that was what people decided was right