Posted on 07/06/2017 6:26:48 AM PDT by simpson96
Conspicuously absent from the "pro-science" progressive movement is a pro-science perspective on gender. In fact, it's probably more accurate to characterize their perspective on gender as anti-science, enforcing dogma rooted more in the work of wayward Women's Studies departments than biological reality.
Just this April, for instance, Bill Nye, anointed disciple of the pro-science Left, framed the idea that gender exists on a spectrum from which people can choose points that match their identities as settled science.
But in an interview published Thursday with the Weekly Standard, dissident feminist Camille Paglia gave a compelling take on the contemporary progressive dogma on transgenderism. "Although I describe myself as transgender (I was donning flamboyant male costumes from early childhood on), I am highly skeptical about the current transgender wave, which I think has been produced by far more complicated psychological and sociological factors than current gender discourse allows," Paglia explained.
"The cold biological truth is that sex changes are impossible. Every single cell of the human body remains coded with one's birth gender for life. Intersex ambiguities can occur, but they are developmental anomalies that represent a tiny proportion of all human births," pronounced Paglia. The bestselling author also condemned "the escalating prescription of puberty blockers" for children, referring to the practice as "a criminal violation of human rights."
"It is certainly ironic," she observed, "how liberals who posture as defenders of science when it comes to global warming (a sentimental myth unsupported by evidence) flee all reference to biology when it comes to gender."
To correct these trends, Paglia turned to a proposition (snip) calling on gender studies departments to reintroduce the serious study of biology into their curriculums. "Biology has been programmatically excluded from Women's Studies and Gender Studies programs for almost 50 years now," she remarked.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
That’s a lot better than making them walk the plank!
Leftist or not, homosexual or not ... I do love reading Camille Paglia’s books and writings. Utter brilliance on a scale equal to William F. Buckley, Thomas Sowell, Larry Elder, and Mark Steyn.
Yep, all I say when someone brings up the issue is;
Good luck on changing that chromosome thingy.
All of the “studies” programs are essentially political-ideological programs of the left. Womyn’s Studies, Afro-American Studies, Ethnic Studies, Peace Studies, Gender Studies, Moronic Studies......
They are all pasted together by leftist ideologues who want to create little academic silos of propaganda.
“the escalating prescription of puberty blockers” for children”
I had to look this up and here’s what I found:
“puberty blockers are used to provide transgender youth with time to further explore their identity, while halting the development of their predisposed sex characteristics caused by the onset puberty.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puberty_blocker
Granted the source is wikipedia, but it’s in line with other sources that I checked.
This is pretty sick.
She is someone with whom you will have to intellectually keep on your toes if you want to argue. That is opposed to the typical modern liberal where you have to physically be on your toes to avoid being hit with a bike lock.
Imagine the additional war crimes counts if Dr. Mengele had chosen Jewish and Gypsy children for “gender reassignment therapy” during his stay at Auschwitz.
Sickening indeed.
Unfortunately, that demographic status increases the moral weight of her arguments with liberals, whether she’s calling for more respect for men doing the hard dirty jobs that support civilization or criticism of transgenderism.
Transgenders are among the most sexist jerks on the planet. If a woman doesn’t live up to a 1950s feminine stereotype, she’s not really a woman. The mentally ill man in a dress feels free to criticize women in pants, their makeup, their hair, their jewelry, their mannerisms and others give them a pass for it. But he does it to increase his own feeling of superiority and “femininity”.
Luckily he didn’t have the opportunity in Brazil.
I don't think there were any Gender Studies programs until Obama came into office and wanted to celebrate Michelle.
It might not have gone any further than John slapping Brian around a few times.
Whatever is true, they take the opposite stance. It’s as simple as that.
No dispute John Lennon was a talented poet and musician...As usually happens in our celebrity preoccupied world, his talents and fame brought him a certain notoriety that caused his opinions to be sought after by the media types...
So, being human, and subject to all the character faults humans are predisposed to, he succumbed to the flatteries and freely held forth for public consumption on subjects he knew no more about than the guy who bagged his groceries or delivered his mail...
It’s as if expertise in one narrow field automatically somehow conveys to celebrities, politicians and titans of industry some special understanding the rest of us hoo-hoos in the hustings don’t have, in any other area of human events they decide to spew their nonsense...
This is an all too common syndrome today...The wealthy and famous, by nature of their wealth and fame, are sought out for their opinions...And the fact their heads are in permanent rectal defilade on most topics other than their own narrow fields, doesn’t slow them down a bit...We NEED to know what Bill Gates and Steven Hawking think about Globull Warming, don’tchaknow?
Camille Paglia is at least an honest liberal with a grounding in logic...Unlike Bill Nye “The Science Guy”...In my perfect world, they’d all just STFU...
I heard he was. Makes sense to me if you watch and listen to him.
Haters gonna hate... /sarc
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