If the binary of sex didn't exist as a reality, no one would be compelled to trans into something different, because there wouldn't be something "different" to trans into. It is inane that this conversation is still needing to be had
oh but you see, that's because the cis gender are so oppressive that they are forced to buy into the stereotypes just so they can rebel against them (**sarcasm**)
Thanks for keeping on this issue Heather – this topic, and many others like it (that all exhibit an amorphous incoherence) I find hard to believe that anyone has taken to heart beyond the pages of such sophisticated nonsense. But then the barista tells me she's getting her PhD in "medieval gender studies". I'm repeatedly shocked ("but not surprised" – to quote Bret) how anyone inculcates wokery which is so clearly a semantic sandtrap. But apparently they do! And in droves! The whole kaleidoscopic gender agenda is so patently meaningless and not progress that I typically avoid engaging in any discussion of it but I'm glad you're dispelling this feeble spell of mass-formation whenever it arises.
I also just wanted to point out that they are incorrect even by their convoluted nonlogic. If you were willing to grant somehow that we were all female in some early stage of development, then the executive order would have indicated that Washington, rather than Trump, was actually the first person who had been female and later became president.
Further, even they must grant that these embryonic females do change into males at some point so that reproduction can happen. But hidden in their declaration is snarky shrugging of the shoulders "oh well, I guess we're all females now".
What a callous way to erase all of the sex-based discrimination and abuse women have suffered throughout time.
What happened? I'm old and not as sharp as I once was. Some how this piece took a turn and ended up on racoons- a topic I have experience with. On male and female, you are obviously right. That it needed to be written is testament to the truth of something I heard from an honest red neck after he herd a sophisticated, complex, lengthy, wrong explanation for a common misconception. The plain speaking red neck said "that man has been educated well beyond the level of his intelligence". I've noticed this malady several time in my life since then.
About Racoons.... I had one for a pet for a couple years. Mindy was very affectionate, but even more independent than our cats. When she was young and the thunder scared her, she ran up my pants and shirt to take refuge on my shoulder like a big bandit parrot. When you had something that interested her, she demanded you hand it over. I remember how she loved the crackling noise a Doritos bag makes. It was quite cute, ,unless you expected her to share. After 2 years with us in the inner city we placed her into a "petting zoo" where she was quite popular for a while. Oh, did I mention that her hands and smarts gave her Houdini like escape talents.
"Firsts" is operative here. The Guardian declares Trump to be the first female president. The twists and turns to get there are torturous, but here we are.
But we have truly had a first racoon (Rebecca)!
And First Lady Coolidge found her very stereo-typically female (I'm chuckling) in her (Rebecca's) treatment of the spouse they chose for her. :)
Mankind has always been able to differentiate between a man and a woman. And mankind has always had varying social/sexual norms, only one of which is homosexuality. We can argue over those norms, but there is no argument over who is a man and who is a woman.
Progressives have always been idiotologues. They are a cult. Like all cults, they unquestioningly accept whatever their leaders tell them.
I read the whole executive order and see only reality, but I'm sure it's being condemned as the end of basic rights and "extremely dangerous" for anyone who calls themselves "trans" or whatever. I do wonder, though, if non-federal organizations will double down. That would suck for me personally, as I'm writing a book about abortion and become enraged on an almost daily basis by my encounters on websites and even in research papers with "pregnant people" etc. I need to calm down for my health. I've started supporting MSI, a global reproductive rights org (provides birth control and abortion in remote corners) whose every communication touts its work with "women and girls." The bizarre thing about it is how deliberate and in-your-face that rare, simple statement feels in the current environment.
and here I thought we were celebrating wokeiness on the wane but now its more like 'revenge of the woke', like a skinny dog with a bone, they're clinging on for dear life. just today I was using an online form to start the process of writing my Will and it asked to select pronouns, 'they/them' being one of the choices. geez, really? (the plural pronouns will NEVER make sense. sorry but that's just the English language. its not meant to demean anyone.)
remember what all our mothers used to say about the obnoxious kid on the playground, 'ignore him(or her) and they will go away'. please let it work with these dipshits. please...
Among some of the idiotic replies to your tweet (RE this NS piece) at X was this:
"Heather, are we sexless at conception?"
Of course a few of us knew from the get-go that the poster didn't really want a correct answer, it was an opening for argumentative behavior, which was proven by the response to a woman who replied and was told, "I don't think that's an apt analogy, but I'm only really interested in what Heather thinks here."
Haha. Only in what Heather thinks, eh? Sure.
As if you haven't written plenty on this. This was just laziness, and boorish.
As I ended the pointless retorts, 'NS had your writings on this, and Grok will help the lazy'.
Anyone who has read (and re-read, and loved) Sandra Boynton's "But Not the Hippopotamus" will understand my first thoughts upon reading the title of this essay.
Thank you for the latest. You make clear the importance of seeing what is rather than what we may wish it is. I was hoping you would further address the outliers, as you have done in other posts, in the context of this discussion. Human hermaphroditism is extremely rare but does occur. So if we have this rigid gender designation then those who naturally fall to either side would seemingly not exist in the context of society. I find that troubling but not insurmountable. Have you seen the movie Conclave? I would greatly appreciate your expanded rumination on this topic, one that considers the outliers in a societal context.
I watched "Conclave". I found it painfully redundant. Not topical, not edgy, not worthy of that much time (and money), just redundant.
I also watched "Emilia Perez" because I wanted to see for myself how I felt about it rather than rely on others' opinions.
It was a complete and utter mess. With "One Hundred Years of Solitude" in the mix (also a foreign language offering), they heap award after award on EP? Just laughable pandering. More of a mess than you could even imagine going into it.
I like to imagine I’m in an episode of the Twilight Zone, otherwise I have to face that we have loads of zealous morons running around.
CM Cornbluth's "The Marching Morons" seems to be especially relevant despite him not predicting the "screens" that promote our Idiocracy.
If the binary of sex didn't exist as a reality, no one would be compelled to trans into something different, because there wouldn't be something "different" to trans into. It is inane that this conversation is still needing to be had
oh but you see, that's because the cis gender are so oppressive that they are forced to buy into the stereotypes just so they can rebel against them (**sarcasm**)
Thanks for keeping on this issue Heather – this topic, and many others like it (that all exhibit an amorphous incoherence) I find hard to believe that anyone has taken to heart beyond the pages of such sophisticated nonsense. But then the barista tells me she's getting her PhD in "medieval gender studies". I'm repeatedly shocked ("but not surprised" – to quote Bret) how anyone inculcates wokery which is so clearly a semantic sandtrap. But apparently they do! And in droves! The whole kaleidoscopic gender agenda is so patently meaningless and not progress that I typically avoid engaging in any discussion of it but I'm glad you're dispelling this feeble spell of mass-formation whenever it arises.
I also just wanted to point out that they are incorrect even by their convoluted nonlogic. If you were willing to grant somehow that we were all female in some early stage of development, then the executive order would have indicated that Washington, rather than Trump, was actually the first person who had been female and later became president.
Further, even they must grant that these embryonic females do change into males at some point so that reproduction can happen. But hidden in their declaration is snarky shrugging of the shoulders "oh well, I guess we're all females now".
What a callous way to erase all of the sex-based discrimination and abuse women have suffered throughout time.
What happened? I'm old and not as sharp as I once was. Some how this piece took a turn and ended up on racoons- a topic I have experience with. On male and female, you are obviously right. That it needed to be written is testament to the truth of something I heard from an honest red neck after he herd a sophisticated, complex, lengthy, wrong explanation for a common misconception. The plain speaking red neck said "that man has been educated well beyond the level of his intelligence". I've noticed this malady several time in my life since then.
About Racoons.... I had one for a pet for a couple years. Mindy was very affectionate, but even more independent than our cats. When she was young and the thunder scared her, she ran up my pants and shirt to take refuge on my shoulder like a big bandit parrot. When you had something that interested her, she demanded you hand it over. I remember how she loved the crackling noise a Doritos bag makes. It was quite cute, ,unless you expected her to share. After 2 years with us in the inner city we placed her into a "petting zoo" where she was quite popular for a while. Oh, did I mention that her hands and smarts gave her Houdini like escape talents.
"Firsts" is operative here. The Guardian declares Trump to be the first female president. The twists and turns to get there are torturous, but here we are.
But we have truly had a first racoon (Rebecca)!
And First Lady Coolidge found her very stereo-typically female (I'm chuckling) in her (Rebecca's) treatment of the spouse they chose for her. :)
I love that Heather is so done with this nonsense. I laughed out loud at the "Thanks a lot Delaware."
These folks are not going gently into the good night. Take heart in that these are the screams of a dying ideology.
I love that Heather swears so effectively, leaving it for precisely the right moment...
“Most scientists now reject the idea that sex is strictly binary.”
Bullshit.
(BAM! mike drop!! Yay, Heather)
Mankind has always been able to differentiate between a man and a woman. And mankind has always had varying social/sexual norms, only one of which is homosexuality. We can argue over those norms, but there is no argument over who is a man and who is a woman.
Progressives have always been idiotologues. They are a cult. Like all cults, they unquestioningly accept whatever their leaders tell them.
I read the whole executive order and see only reality, but I'm sure it's being condemned as the end of basic rights and "extremely dangerous" for anyone who calls themselves "trans" or whatever. I do wonder, though, if non-federal organizations will double down. That would suck for me personally, as I'm writing a book about abortion and become enraged on an almost daily basis by my encounters on websites and even in research papers with "pregnant people" etc. I need to calm down for my health. I've started supporting MSI, a global reproductive rights org (provides birth control and abortion in remote corners) whose every communication touts its work with "women and girls." The bizarre thing about it is how deliberate and in-your-face that rare, simple statement feels in the current environment.
On fire today!
and here I thought we were celebrating wokeiness on the wane but now its more like 'revenge of the woke', like a skinny dog with a bone, they're clinging on for dear life. just today I was using an online form to start the process of writing my Will and it asked to select pronouns, 'they/them' being one of the choices. geez, really? (the plural pronouns will NEVER make sense. sorry but that's just the English language. its not meant to demean anyone.)
remember what all our mothers used to say about the obnoxious kid on the playground, 'ignore him(or her) and they will go away'. please let it work with these dipshits. please...
Among some of the idiotic replies to your tweet (RE this NS piece) at X was this:
"Heather, are we sexless at conception?"
Of course a few of us knew from the get-go that the poster didn't really want a correct answer, it was an opening for argumentative behavior, which was proven by the response to a woman who replied and was told, "I don't think that's an apt analogy, but I'm only really interested in what Heather thinks here."
Haha. Only in what Heather thinks, eh? Sure.
As if you haven't written plenty on this. This was just laziness, and boorish.
As I ended the pointless retorts, 'NS had your writings on this, and Grok will help the lazy'.
https://x.com/AEJ58/status/1883602814280327502
PS I laugh (I really do) at The Guardian begging for money at each opening of an article.
Thank you!
Anyone who has read (and re-read, and loved) Sandra Boynton's "But Not the Hippopotamus" will understand my first thoughts upon reading the title of this essay.
Thank you for the latest. You make clear the importance of seeing what is rather than what we may wish it is. I was hoping you would further address the outliers, as you have done in other posts, in the context of this discussion. Human hermaphroditism is extremely rare but does occur. So if we have this rigid gender designation then those who naturally fall to either side would seemingly not exist in the context of society. I find that troubling but not insurmountable. Have you seen the movie Conclave? I would greatly appreciate your expanded rumination on this topic, one that considers the outliers in a societal context.
I watched "Conclave". I found it painfully redundant. Not topical, not edgy, not worthy of that much time (and money), just redundant.
I also watched "Emilia Perez" because I wanted to see for myself how I felt about it rather than rely on others' opinions.
It was a complete and utter mess. With "One Hundred Years of Solitude" in the mix (also a foreign language offering), they heap award after award on EP? Just laughable pandering. More of a mess than you could even imagine going into it.
And I am deeply grateful for you Heather.
Delightful read! And thank you for helping me in the linguistic nuances in this matter.