dharmanaturalist.bsky.social
Atheist, Utilitarian, Lefty but not woken. Have been a night janitor, mental hospital orderly, shop steward, corporate middle management, economics lecturer and more. Love science, the wonder of life, and Terri. Screw Trump. Hi.
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So what order did Brown refuse? I need to know in order to write a speech for when he gets the Medal of Freedom down the road.
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Mine too! And I live in California!
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Unleash the dragons!
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So many people tell me that they've never seen a gulf this great.
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Trump doesn't understand friendship.
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Xenophobia porn
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Let's just say it, he's the new director of the Gestapo.
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Bannon has been on the Nazi end of Maga for a long time.
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I get into arguments over on the Heinlein Forum on Facebook about this. We're never going to colonize Mars. When we explore space it's going to be robots all the way.
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I'm re-reading science fiction from my youth so I have no stones to throw.
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How about DNC chair?
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Teach us, master.
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Oh god, don't make me sign up for another streaming service.
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But they also want gender to continue to be connected to one's biological sex, or at least the appearance thereof. It's a contradiction and I think the trans movement, especially in light of Trump's election, needs to re-think what they're asking from the rest of us. Okay, that's enough.
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And that's where the trans movement breaks down for me. Gender was created to say something cultural about the sexes and that is a fascinating dialogue that still continues. The trannies would like gender to mean something different, specifically, their inner sense of gender identity.
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For much of the trans movement, medical intervention to make your body resemble the bodies of the other sex are considered "medically necessary gender affirming care." So clearly, most of us agree that gender is linked to one's biological sex, and not just an inner sense of identity.
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That effort at attaching a cultural identity to sex is more complicated now that we understand that gender roles don't come from God and aren't nearly as connected to Nature as we've often assumed. But the conversation is always about the sexes. A "gender" unattached to your sex is just a lifestyle.
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Social media isn't really built for serious discussion of complicated issues but I'll give it a shot. Genders, to my thinking, consist of a set of cultural expectations that we attach to the binary sexes. The whole point of genders was to give cultural significance to the raw fact of binary sex.
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Exactly what mushrooms have you been eating?
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Until the turn of the century, the connection between gender and genitalia was a core belief of *every* political philosophy and remains quite popular across the political spectrum to this day. So if you want to criticize what I said, try something different.
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That is so much better than my bare text "good morning." Thanks!
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That's it.
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I will never understand why the position that gender has nothing to do with your genitalia at birth has become a required position for many progressives. Justice, peace, racial equality, economic equality? Yes! Gender relies only on an inner sense of identity rather than birth genitalia? Uh... no.
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Thank you and back at you.
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This is where I really need the crying emoticon. 😥 It's sad because it's true.
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Don't forget Putin. He'd like a piece.
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The details are a little different but, yeah, I have the same urge.
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I actually believe this. Not in a New Age sort of way but as a matter of cold hard fact. If you can't celebrate every new sunrise, then you have unrealistic expectations about life. So good morning.