The degree to which you profess belief in double-think absurdities is the measure of your subservience to the cult. Those who fail to mouth the shibboleths are clearly dangerous heretics who must be shamed, silenced, and vilified.
I agree that humor is perhaps our greatest weapon for piercing the facade; the problem is the indoctrinated have lost all sense of humor.
“The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie.”
–Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
They don't want us to seriously believe that the difference between women and men is in contention. It's about coercing us to lie rather than go through the pain they will inflict for challenging them.
Yet, one of the qualifiers for her appearance in front of the Senate was that she is a woman. Flunking that question should be a disqualifier. The biologist Bret Weinstien could answer it, but she wouldn't like it. Lucky for her the left booted him.
Guess X+X= female and X+Y=male is too confusing. But when you have 2+2= whatever you feel it is, then no wonder she can't answer the simple question. Love the gifs! 😎
The truth is the truth, if it causes people to be upset then so be it. If we worry about the "minefield" of upsetting delusional people then we are lost.
Denying reality does not end well. Many of us learned this the hard way and can clearly see the slow motion train wreck happening in front of us.
Simple: Gametes. Mature reproductive cells. Either you produce sperm or eggs (or your body is designed to). It's binary. I don't care abut how you're "wired" or about your chromosomal abnormality or your testosterone/estrogen anomaly. Will you someday or do you now or have you ever produced sperm or eggs?
Fortunately I know of literally no one who talks this way or believes this sh*t. (Vive le South) But the amount of play on airwaves and media (social or otherwise) sure would make you think we’re the minority. I saw a poll and the people who believe this are a tiny number - can’t remember now but 10% or less pops to mind. The rest of us know it’s insanity. Like, you wouldn’t even believe it in a movie insanity.
I think there's several areas to clarify on this topic. Definition of biological men and women has to do with primary sex characteristics - genitalia, penis and vagina (and there are people who have a little of both, hermaphrodites). And then there are secondary sex characteristics like breasts that have the potential to produce milk, voice range, Adam apple size, and muscle size.
Then there are cultural categories and definitions of men and women that I think are important to challenge and break down. Men or women should be able to stay home and raise the kids while women go out and earn a living without being ridiculed, for example. Women should not be shut out of political positions and heads of institutions. I think we are better off as a civilization breaking down cultural defined categories of men and women. But this doesn't mean ignoring biological differences between men and women, that's just silly.
"it's rendering everything stupid, unintelligible, and unnavigable."
That's the point. The nomenklatura will decide what words mean and will unperson you if you use them to mean anything other than the definition of the moment.
I would have loved MTG getting her to admit she is a “menstruating person,” a “child bearer, or a “milk producing person.” Let the heads explode with those woke definitions. Woke has lost its collective (literally) mind and our best response is to refuse to accept their version of the world.
The most important result of this exchange is that a future supreme court justice confirms that deciding whether someone is a woman is a matter of biology.
"I'm not a biologist" is an admission that gender may have something to do with biology, rather than a feeling. So she managed to sound incredibly stupid to both camps.
He should have hammered her about this. People who spout this nonsense can easily be made to look like blithering fools. Here are some ideas.
"Do you feel that it would be a good thing to have more women represented on the supreme court? Yes? How did you arrive at that opinion without knowing what they are? How often do you render opinions on matters that you don't really understand?"
"When women's issues come up in court cases, do you just get confused because you don't know what anybody is talking about?"
"Can you name the female supreme court justices that you would be serving with? Did you consult a biologist to be sure about that?"
I'm not a vet but I know what a cat is
The degree to which you profess belief in double-think absurdities is the measure of your subservience to the cult. Those who fail to mouth the shibboleths are clearly dangerous heretics who must be shamed, silenced, and vilified.
I agree that humor is perhaps our greatest weapon for piercing the facade; the problem is the indoctrinated have lost all sense of humor.
“The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie.”
–Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
They don't want us to seriously believe that the difference between women and men is in contention. It's about coercing us to lie rather than go through the pain they will inflict for challenging them.
Yet, one of the qualifiers for her appearance in front of the Senate was that she is a woman. Flunking that question should be a disqualifier. The biologist Bret Weinstien could answer it, but she wouldn't like it. Lucky for her the left booted him.
Guess X+X= female and X+Y=male is too confusing. But when you have 2+2= whatever you feel it is, then no wonder she can't answer the simple question. Love the gifs! 😎
She should have answered: Well, since the President said he would only consider a woman of color for the job, I must be a woman.
The truth is the truth, if it causes people to be upset then so be it. If we worry about the "minefield" of upsetting delusional people then we are lost.
Denying reality does not end well. Many of us learned this the hard way and can clearly see the slow motion train wreck happening in front of us.
Simple: Gametes. Mature reproductive cells. Either you produce sperm or eggs (or your body is designed to). It's binary. I don't care abut how you're "wired" or about your chromosomal abnormality or your testosterone/estrogen anomaly. Will you someday or do you now or have you ever produced sperm or eggs?
Fortunately I know of literally no one who talks this way or believes this sh*t. (Vive le South) But the amount of play on airwaves and media (social or otherwise) sure would make you think we’re the minority. I saw a poll and the people who believe this are a tiny number - can’t remember now but 10% or less pops to mind. The rest of us know it’s insanity. Like, you wouldn’t even believe it in a movie insanity.
I think there's several areas to clarify on this topic. Definition of biological men and women has to do with primary sex characteristics - genitalia, penis and vagina (and there are people who have a little of both, hermaphrodites). And then there are secondary sex characteristics like breasts that have the potential to produce milk, voice range, Adam apple size, and muscle size.
Then there are cultural categories and definitions of men and women that I think are important to challenge and break down. Men or women should be able to stay home and raise the kids while women go out and earn a living without being ridiculed, for example. Women should not be shut out of political positions and heads of institutions. I think we are better off as a civilization breaking down cultural defined categories of men and women. But this doesn't mean ignoring biological differences between men and women, that's just silly.
When Ketanji Brown Jackson claimed she couldn't define "woman" because she wasn't a biologist, that should have generated two follow-up questions:
1. Are YOU a woman, and if so how do you know that?
2. If only biologists are qualified to define what a woman is, then are you saying that "woman" is a biological and not a psychological term?
"it's rendering everything stupid, unintelligible, and unnavigable."
That's the point. The nomenklatura will decide what words mean and will unperson you if you use them to mean anything other than the definition of the moment.
I would have loved MTG getting her to admit she is a “menstruating person,” a “child bearer, or a “milk producing person.” Let the heads explode with those woke definitions. Woke has lost its collective (literally) mind and our best response is to refuse to accept their version of the world.
The most important result of this exchange is that a future supreme court justice confirms that deciding whether someone is a woman is a matter of biology.
"I'm not a biologist" is an admission that gender may have something to do with biology, rather than a feeling. So she managed to sound incredibly stupid to both camps.
He should have hammered her about this. People who spout this nonsense can easily be made to look like blithering fools. Here are some ideas.
"Do you feel that it would be a good thing to have more women represented on the supreme court? Yes? How did you arrive at that opinion without knowing what they are? How often do you render opinions on matters that you don't really understand?"
"When women's issues come up in court cases, do you just get confused because you don't know what anybody is talking about?"
"Can you name the female supreme court justices that you would be serving with? Did you consult a biologist to be sure about that?"
C'mon everybody, let's hear yours.