I understand the US government is going about defining man and woman based on a framework of biological sex. What alternatives should be used to not ‘erase' trans people that are coherent, material, objective and useful in law?
OK, well, it's unlikely to go away as gendered behaviour seems to be related very much to our evolved brains and hormones and the cognitive and psychological differences these produce.
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To use an unscientific term: Phooey! I wrote behaviour, not gendered behaviour. You've reversed the concept. Gender is fashionable nonsense, nothing to do with brains or hormones, though it'd be good if more people used the latter.
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OK, if you don't include psychological, cognitive & behavioural differences which replicate panculturally and also in other apes - eg men being more interested in working with things and women with people - in 'gender,' I agree that social-only aspects of performance exist.
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eg, men in Saudi Arabia wear what we would call dresses and associate with women's wear but they don't and consider it traditionally masculine attire. This is a culturally constructed difference.
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But here is the thing: even if such behaviour may have roots in ‘evolved brains’, two things are true: 1) No behaviour is exclusive to one sex and so defines that sex. Men and women have overlapping behaviour characteristics. 2) To define women/men by behaviour is sexist.
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This is broadly supportive of your point I thinkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEX9Usqdurs&feature=share …
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That's Cordelia Fine, a blank slatist, much debunked.
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on this subject - and as I understand it he argues strongly against blank slatism. But he said same thing: distinctive profiles, sure, but huge amount of overlaphttps://youtu.be/jnjWiUbmLGs
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Noticed that the word gender is used as synonymous with sex during the first part of the interview. Irritating.
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The word gender is quite capable of switching meanings within a sentence to the practiced gender ideologist.
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Humpty would agree.
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Got to dash, but am feeling despondent that someone following in the footsteps of Sokal has not noticed that this is an area that has abandoned truth, reason and objectivity and privileged subjective interests and perspectives. Clarity sacrificed to deliberate obscurantism
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Thanks Andy. Hadn't heard of Sokal. Interesting.
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Is co-authored book "Intellectual Impostures” got me into scepticsm two decades ago. The realisation the intellectual left was on a crash course to oblivion. We are seeing the inevitable playout of what Sokal wrote about.
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Just ordered online.
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