FOR THE LEFT.
Posted on 04/13/2015 10:20:52 AM PDT by jazusamo
One of the wonders of modern times is that reality is often seen as a social construct and therefore optional. Thus, if one finds a particular reality offensive or inconvenient, he just "changes" it.
Say that one is born a male or a female but believes that nature made an error. Some believe that nature's "error" can be corrected by calling oneself another sex. Possibly a medical procedure on one's genitalia can correct nature's error. However, Mother Nature is ruthless. Sex determination is strictly chromosomal. Females are XX, and males are XY. There is no medical procedure that can change that. Once a male or female, always a male or female.
What about the chant "Hands up; don't shoot," echoed during street demonstrations and rioting and even in the halls of Congress? The lie was that Michael Brown had held his hands up to surrender to a white racist Ferguson, Missouri, police officer, Darren Wilson, who then shot him in cold blood. Even after it was proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that the reality was entirely different, it didn't matter. "Hands up; don't shoot" became the chant across the land.
"More women are victims of domestic violence on Super Bowl Sunday than on any other day of the year." That's the lie produced by feminists in 1993. It received a boost at this year's Super Bowl game in a 30-second, multimillion-dollar ad co-sponsored by the NFL, currying favor with women's groups as a result of a few players' misbehavior. Regarding the grossly bogus study, feminist writer Christina Hoff Sommers concluded, "How a belief in that misandrist canard can make the world a better place for women is not explained."
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FOR THE LEFT.
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WEW nails it, as he always does.
Sex is primarily chromosomal, but much of it - including which external sex organs form and brain structure are determined by the functioning of the endocrine system. Address that as an aside when you discuss this issue.
The left wing is loopy on this issue.
It should be a runaway race here. Don't show up at the race with tires showing steel all the way around the tread.
George Orwell was right, 1984 is alive and well with us now.
Absolutely FALSE!
It is lower. The guys are playing a game and not at home.
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That’s my Walter! Right, as usual.
Isn't the endocrine system, with respect to estrogens and androgens, determined by XX and XY?
I have often wondered the same thing.
Reality has a way of coming back and biting you in the a$$ though.
And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!
I teased my lib-in-law about the finding that cholesterol is no longer bad for you.
I asked “how did they change reality? surely they were absolutely right when they said it was bad, and absolutely right now, right?”
Obama said, "This (exchange of prisoners) is what happens at the end of wars." He added: "That was true for George Washington. That was true for Abraham Lincoln. That was true for FDR..."
And:
There was a bit of a history problem with Obama's claim. George Washington did not become president until 1789, six years after the Revolutionary War's end in 1783. There were no prisoners for him to exchange.
Lincoln was assassinated April 14, 1865. The Civil War ended June 2, 1865. Lincoln was dead and didn't have the opportunity to exchange prisoners at the war's end.
Franklin D. Roosevelt died of a stroke April 12, 1945. The war in Europe ended May 8, 1945. The Japanese empire surrendered Aug. 15, 1945.
Three for three. Or rather Williams 3, 0bama zip.
There are, in fact, very many intellectual wannabes who really do believe that reality is a social construct in a very literal sense, that words have no meaning outside of a tacit social agreement between speaker and listener, that one person's truth is entirely divorced from another's. They claim to think that way, but they don't act that way - watch, for example, what happens when a group of people who have just agreed that words have no meaning are presented with an anchovy pizza where they ordered a pepperoni.
If how mentally ill people feel about their gender is the only important consideration, why bother with surgical mutilation? It won't change how they feel, and it won't change who they are, so why go through all the hormones and chopping things off?
Agreed, what Dr. Williams did with that was beautiful in showing 0bama will say most anything to justify his actions, be they true or not.
Your “anchovy pizza where they ordered a pepperoni” example is right opn.
“Reality is for people who can’t handle drugs”.
They are rare.
But if you combine the various intersexual conditions with various injuries or illnesses that damage the Hypothalamus, testes, etc before puberty then you get a number approaching the prevalence of Down’s Syndrome. Rare but not so rare that most people never encounter someone affected. Admittedly these things are not as apparent to the eye as Down’s, especially as the afflicted usually prefer secrecy.
So when discussing all the goofy people who want to change themselves into something that they are not (due to some deranged emotional or mental pathology) it is appropriate to mention intersex problems as a caveat and allow for people with problems that are physiological rather than psychological in origin.
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