@RadioTFB @madeleinekearns @MattWalshBlog No. Every dictionary states ‘adult human female’. We can’t have people fired for abiding by dictionary definitions and we can’t be changing dictionary definitions to humor one group (trans women) at the expense of another (women).
To do so’d be ceding to totalitarianism.
To do so’d be ceding to totalitarianism.
@RadioTFB @madeleinekearns @MattWalshBlog Reality is always a bit fuzzy. Zooming into the quantum level, we find indeterminacy. But that doesn’t mean that an apple might have become something else when you zoom back out or is a meaningless concept altogether. Zooming in on a coastline, we seem to find an infinite length
@RadioTFB @madeleinekearns @MattWalshBlog of coastline. That doesn’t mean the coastline is truly infinite in length or a meaningless concept altogether. We define things by approximation. By what is approximately true on any useful scale for discourse. In 99% of humans gender identity is tied to sex which in more than
@RadioTFB @madeleinekearns @MattWalshBlog 99% of individual mammals is either one or the other. Yes, exceptions exist. Sure, there’s a performative element to human gender identity since we are complex cultural beings so cultural elements are going to amplify gender differences. But by and large, and in more than 99% of
@RadioTFB @madeleinekearns @MattWalshBlog individuals, gender identity and sex do match up. To then use rare exceptions to this approximate reality or the existence of a performative element to gender identity, as proof of the non-existence of that reality, completely defeats the purpose of why we developed scientific
@RadioTFB @madeleinekearns @MattWalshBlog inquiry or even language itself in the first place. It is exactly like saying that humans aren’t bipedal because some ppl are born without legs. Not because pedalism is exactly the same type of concept as sex, which as you pointed out it isn’t, but in the sense that both
@RadioTFB @madeleinekearns @MattWalshBlog fallacies blur a useful definition on the basis of the inherent fuzziness of reality. Such blurring can be applied to every single domain of existence and it would render the meaning and usefulness of language, and therefore human civilization, moot. This is why social
@RadioTFB @madeleinekearns @MattWalshBlog constructionism is so dangerous. Not because no socially constructed elements exist in our reality, and not because it’s uninteresting or useless to research those elements and correct for them where appropriate, and not because reality isn’t fuzzy, but because it tends to
@RadioTFB @madeleinekearns @MattWalshBlog deconstruct reality to the point where nothing makes sense, objective truth doesn’t exist and therefore all human progress is destroyed. First philosophically, then culturally and then physically. By that time all knowledge, experience and civility is lost and humanity has
@RadioTFB @madeleinekearns @MattWalshBlog returned to the abhorrent beastly conditions it only recently managed to liberate itself from. This may sound awfully parabolic, but this is the path you are on when you demand that the inherent link between sex and gender is erased from our scientific and cultural understanding
@RadioTFB @madeleinekearns @MattWalshBlog due to the existence of exceptions, thereby essentially insisting that society gears itself towards the fuzzy nature of reality instead of approximate truth.
