Why is scientific denialism of biological sex so rampant in society currently?
Unfortunately, communists and Marxists have infiltrated and captured our universities, pushing communist and postmodern theory at every opportunity to create a new generation who sees the world through a Marxist, postmodern lens. (See @christopherrufo's book America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything)
This results in a cohort of people who exclusively understand the world through an ideological framework of economic determinism and social constructivism born of power relationships. This ideological framework is essentially "blank slatism" that denies the reality of human biology and human nature in social and political dynamics, positing that human beings are entirely a product of their material economic conditions. Furthermore, they have been taught that having this ideological interpretation of the world is not enough – there is a moral imperative act on their ideology wherever it perceives injustice and be activists for change in society. As Marx said in 1845, “philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it.”
Therefore, the pro-regressive left (as I like to call them) believes scientific biological concepts like sex are merely social constructs, produced by those holding economic power for their own self-sustaining ends. They fallaciously believe scientific facts supported by endless evidence can be completely "deconstructed" and undermined in a manner that other non-scientific cultural concepts are within academia. And finally (and most importantly to understand the zealotry) the pro-regressive left denies the reality of scientific biology because in their Marxist ideology it is a morally virtuous thing to do. Scientific knowledge is interpreted as an evil tool of capitalist oppression instead of objective fact that should form the basis of our social and economic theories (like capitalism).
Then there was a Blitzkrieg of gender ideology pushed through society under the heading of DEI during the “great awokening” as these Marxist activists left university and pursued careers giving them real institutional power to wield over society. They have even managed to codify biological denialism in law through the West by making "gender identity" a legally protected characteristic. DEI policies enable scientific biology to be denied by gender ideology and this denial rigorously enforced in workplaces, education settings, and government bodies. Anyone who stands up for scientific realism can be fired or bullied from their positions and face social ostracization, so we are now in a position where there is a chilling effect around those who would defend biological reality.
Lastly, there are many well meaning people in the world that have busy lives and just want a peaceful and happy society. They may have an instinct that gender ideology claims don't add up, but they don't have time to get into the weeds of these issues and debunk all the anti-scientific misinformation. So when gender ideology propaganda tells them to "be kind' and play along otherwise trans kids will commit suicide, they just acquiesce and play along, partly because they have other priorities, party because they do want to be kind, perhaps party even to virtue signal among the wealthy elites with luxury beliefs, and partly to avoid negative social consequences in the gender ideology paradigm that has infiltrated society.
This is where we are.
Now its time to deconstruct the social construct of gender ideology with science and reason.
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What an appropriate publicly funded podcast name.
It’s so cringy and embarrassing when the ABC communicate like 12 year olds with tax payer money.
Sex differences can be bimodal.
Sex itself is binary.
The bimodal sex differences only exist because sex is binary—there are only two groups being compared: male and female.
@Tuesday58939298@WomenReadWomen@AlisonJR20@grok@grok Are there any high quality polls from about 2014-2020 range, peak Great Awokening, that show a "significant" difference in support for trans ideology between men and women?
You keep saying "all women" - where have I stated that once?
I don't blame all women. I blame exactly that % of women that voted for parties that enshrined trans ideology into our laws and institutions. And - sadly - that is the majority of women. Not all. The majority.
When the majority of women stop voting for trans ideology, and actively vote against trans ideology, then I will, at that point, stop blaming the majority of women for supporting trans ideology...
This really isn't hard. Or misogyny. Women are responsible for trans ideology precisely to the % and vote that they have demonstrated political support for trans ideology. That's it. Nothing more, nothing less.
The difference in voting patterns between sexes are consistent across the Western world I am afraid, though I said "overwhelming majority" not "all" (so that is an odd strawman to invent quotes for).
Obviously there are a few TERFs pushing back - but they will be the first to admit they are a small minority among women and they often receive the most hostility, ostracisation, and venom from other women in their lives and not the men in their lives.
I've been critical of trans ideology and a supporter of women's rights for long while - have a look at my profile if you'd like.
What I will push back on is the claim "trans ideology is a male phenomenon" when women have been its largest supporters.
No, I never once suggested or implied women shouldn't vote (another strawman). I simply want them to acknowledge the role their previously electoral decisions had in empowering trans ideology in society... so they vote differently in the future, and this toxic ideology can dismantled and destroyed.
You are simply unable to take criticism. You think women can do no wrong, ever, and it just must be that critics (who happen to be male) hate women. Its all such a boring but expected response and lack of introspection.
@Tuesday58939298@WomenReadWomen@AlisonJR20@grok "I think you will find that support for trans ideology is evenly split between men and women." Is that true? Or do women support trans ideology, and political parties that support trans ideology, at significantly higher rates than men? Only cite the highest quality polls.
@ottawalady@WomenReadWomen@AlisonJR20 Poor darling had to cry about "mansplaining" and block me rather than respond with logic and evidence to disprove my claims.
Seems like a rather emotional thing to do I guess.
If that is what you truly think they you live in childish fantasy. "Let's live in a world of sunshine and rainbows and lollypops where everyone is nice and happy and no one does mean things!"
Reality check:
> There are bad people in the world.
> We build social and institutional systemic safeguards against bad people - and they were working just fine re: single sex spaces
> Women, influenced by academic feminisms theories which deny biological differences and realities of the sexes, decided to vote for leftist parties championing the dismantling of single sex space rights
> Women are experiencing the consequences of their electoral decisions as bad men have more opportunity to behave badly free from consequence
> When assessing the current situation, some women choose to dwell on the sad reality there are bad people in the world (which does nothing to change the current situation) instead of acknowledging women voted us into this situation and - if they take the necessary action to free themselves from ideological capture - can vote us out of this situation and restore our institutional safeguarding against the bad people who will always exist.
I don't blame women for bad men's behavior. There are a tiny number of male predators out there - I don't dispute that. Bad people exist and always will. Believe it or not, predatory females also exist as well.
I blame women for choosing to vote to destroy the institutional and legal safeguarding framework that was constructed to protect women (and children) from predators (male and female).
And now that women destroyed the safeguarding mechanisms and invited the fox into the henhouse, you are crying "you are blaming the chickens for the foxes behavior!" and refuse to ask the obvious question: which chickens opened the doors of the henhouse to the fox and why?
How do you think men would handle other predatory men transgressing women's boundaries in single sex spaces if there was not a feminised legal system wielding state sanctioned violence to prevent them from doing so?
Calm down, no one is shouting via text. Or being emasculated by the challenges to "take care of the problem like a big strong man."
The overwhelming majority of Western women supported inviting a tiny number of perverted and mentally ill men into their spaces, told everyone that they were bigots if they objected, and voted in parties that enshrined this welcome into policy and law to use the power and violence of the state to crush anyone who objected.
Of course there will be predators in the world - and you'd be a naive child to cry about their existence. The question is, given there are bad men in the world and always will be, why did Western women unlock and open the door for them while praising how strong and brave they are?
Lol it's like you never understood the lesson of Little Red Riding Hood and think "there shouldn't be wolves in the world, this is their fault!" when the lesson is "don't be a fucking fool and open the door to predators." Even children understand this... maybe go back and reread it and see if you can follow along?
@Glinner Behold, intersectional identity grievance politics (Wokism) in action for anyone still confused what it means.
You see, if you believe in protecting people from sexist, racist, homophobic, ablest discrimination then you must also support trans feeling people from discrimination.
Are you aware of any deaths as a result?
I could have sworn about 3 years ago there was a story about a church that was arsoned - but the church had some kind of residential dwelling including/attached and the occupants died (2 people I think). BUT when I try to go back and find this story I can't. Any ideas?
This is actually incredible! The Globe and Mail admitting to its total failure in covering the "unmarked grave" mass hysteria — an event that changed Canada, possibly irreparably.
"The fact of the crimes committed against Indigenous children at residential schools over many decades does not automatically validate claims that hundreds of students were dumped into unmarked graves in Kamloops and other residential schools. That is an extraordinary assertion, one that requires proof.
…The media, including The Globe and Mail, did not initially scrutinize, much less challenge, that assertion. The initial headlines and stories in the media simply stated as fact that the remains of 215 children had been found.
Perhaps it will be proven, some day, that there are hundreds of unmarked graves at Kamloops. But it was not proven to be true in May, 2021. It is not proven to be true today.
…The lesson of 2021 should be: assertions about residential schools should be listened to carefully, and then, just as carefully, held up to scrutiny.”
Now do the scandal of paediatric gender medicine, @globeandmail. You have been just as gullible and your reporting has been just as atrocious.
Assertions about "gender-affirming care" should also be held up to scrutiny.
You frequently report that this treatment is life-saving, when there is no evidence that is true.
You call puberty blockers fully reversible, when there is clear evidence that is false.
You blindly accept the existence of "trans kids" without questioning where this sudden explosion of young people "born in the wrong body" came from.
You appeal to the authority of medical associations, including the thoroughly discredited WPATH, and dismally fail to investigate the astonishing levels of fraud, corruption, and institutional capture.