From Jenner to Dolezal: One Trans Good, the Other Not So Much
@Yossarian wrote: How am I 'dogmatically' fascist? How does my post make me an anti Semitic Zionist? Are 'Israel brown shirts' antisemitic? Make some sense please. To clear things up I'm not a big fan...
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@LucyLastik wrote: Tripe, served large. The kind of tripe that trans-intelligent people attack with gluttonous intent.If living in Disneyland becomes an acceptable practice, can all of humanity just...
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@locallyunscene wrote: Excellent Op-Ed, but one minor critique. In paragraph 7 you refer to Jenner as a 'he' twice. I know in her coming out she asked to be referred to by male pronouns, but she...
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@Distinctions wrote: starkimpossibility: "I cannot let this be stated as fact." Without getting into the separate considerations about social consequences and power structures and choice vs. birth,...
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@ZoeB wrote: This isn't a political, ideological, sociological or philosophical issue. A sex difference in the human brain and its relation to transsexuality. by Zhou et al Nature (1995) 378:68–70.Our...
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@borderlandsbear wrote: What ahistorical crap. There are male and female bodies. I feel my body as male when I urinate, when I shave, when I sit down, when I scratch my hairy back, etc. I do feel...
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@nickgorton wrote: Dr Reed, you make very eloquent points, however your heteronormative decision to use male pronouns with which to refer to Caitlyn Jenner distracts from that immensely. Hearing...
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@mizzemm wrote: I don't disagree with you overall stark impossibility. But the fact remains that, while race is ENTIRELY socially constructed and learned, gender identity is arguably not--perhaps some...
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@mizzemm wrote: I don't need to make assumptions about her experience to stand by my point--which is that her experience cannot be made comparable to a transgender person's under any circumstances....
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@dariady wrote: Only because you have decided that it would be unacceptable. There is no non-emotionally based reasoning to support a difference. Read full topic
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@dariady wrote: I'm an anthropologist. Trust me, gender is ENTIRELY socially constructed. Arguable? Sure, in the way that everything is arguable: but you would lose this argument. It varies too much...
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@mizzemm wrote: You were not born feeling like anything, merely because you don't remember. You have no idea what you "felt" like as an infant. But there are children barely out of infancy who clearly...
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@Thomas_Jefferson wrote: Well done. What was the original song/poem called? "The Very Model of a Modern Major General", or something like that? Read full topic
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@alreed wrote: This comment is quite a breath of fresh air. I've been really startled and concerned by the tendency among nominal progressives on this issue at least not only to accept lock, stock,...
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@alreed wrote: For what it's worth, I used a masculine pronoun to refer to the person known as Bruce in part to distinguish that person from Caitlyn. I don't dispute that Republican Jenner may have...
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@alreed wrote: I would reinforce your rejection of this new determinisms by adding that what some people are getting excited about as the “discovery” (it’s only a discovery to those who just...
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@Godless_heathen wrote: If the confusion of the terms, or the concepts, of "sex" and "gender" is naïve, then it's a naïvete that is becoming more and more widespread. For instance, the recommended...
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@Distinctions wrote: Re alreed comment: "Are you as startled a I am at how much nominal progressives in this moment want to deny the sex/gender distinction and to insist that gender is in effect...
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@alreed wrote: Are you as startled a I am at how much nominal progressives in this moment want to deny the sex/gender distinction and to insist that gender is in effect hardwired? How in the name of...
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@madams12 wrote: Having grown up adoring the lyrics/music of Gilbert and Sullivan I couldn't believe my eyes that you DID IT!! you captured the essence of this very contemporary social...
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@Mischling2nd wrote: Has Adolph Reed every supported anyone's right to be white and not accused of "passing for white"? I doubt it....
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@dariady wrote: Somebody beat me to answering your question, and it's a perfectly good answer. I'll say the same thing to you that I just commented to somebody else - did you even read this article?...
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@NadiaYvette wrote: I'm loath to levy the charge of dishonesty against either in favor of assessments that they may hold incorrect ideas or have ideas discordant with prevailing meanings of race or...
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@NadiaYvette wrote: I would have to question whether it's determinism per se that's to be challenged, but rather the sorts of appeals to nature, naturalistic fallacies, essentialism, and fatalism or...
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“of sorts” is the most revealing part of your reply. Read full topic
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