andrewducker | Interesting Links for 18-02-2022

Those people really do want biology to be destiny don't they, which find baffling if they claim to be any sort of feminist!

As I've mentioned before, I find it conceptually all of a one with nationalism, racism, sexism, aristiocracy, religiousity. Some largish % of people really want / need there to be something you can only be born# with, that can never be taken away - *and that makes you special*. It's insecurity / non-acceptance in the face of an uncertain / unpredictable world. I tend to call it "Essentialist Exceptionalism". I dunno what the real term might be. The ultimate conservativism, I suppose.

# or, perhaps, in the case of religion, born again with!

I suspect you are right although as I've so often said, if I'm not saying, how do they suppose they'll know and that's maybe what really terrifies them.

And then they tell you that if you disagree, you're "denying the existence of biology." I count phrases like that as a shibboleth: a person who uses them has no interest in understanding the facts, just in spewing abuse.

And would also have no interest if I told them I'd been born with an intersex condition.........

The "denying biology" claim is particularly special when these same people will insist that despite my beard, body hair, penis, and absence of breasts, uterus, ovaries or vagina, I am in fact a woman...

And that with my back length hair vagina and breasts, even before you add the intersex condition PAIS which makes me not very tall and gives me fine features, I'm a man.

They must use some really interesting public facilities, these people!

I am happy for you (sigh!)

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