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Feminist Gloria Steinem: ‘Gender Was Invented in Order to Control Reproduction’
CNS News ^ | 10/3/17 | Melanie Arter

Posted on 10/03/2017 5:38:52 PM PDT by markomalley

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To: TexasFreeper2009

I thought you would agree, because you’re talking about facts we can talk about, instead of locked into some ideological construct that I don’t even see what your point is, but it requires ALL CAPS.

I think natives of the Americas are closer to east Asian than are Austro-Pacific natives. It’s an interesting point, for the “racism” obsessed, that the “blackest” people in the world are natives of Guadalcanal and nearby islands, not any African natives.


81 posted on 10/03/2017 7:15:33 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("What comes after diversity is the grim uniformity of Islam." ~Mark Steyn)
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To: markomalley

Yup...sheer lunacy, insanity, and weirdness.


82 posted on 10/03/2017 7:20:24 PM PDT by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless, indisputable clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
I agree that, conceptually, there's an obvious survival benefit to associating "people who look like us" with "people who think/act like us and therefore aren't an existential threat." It saves effort, as Thomas Sowell points out in explaining why travelers stop at McDonald's.

In practice, it's more complex, or Native American groups who were culturally and genetically very close wouldn't have identified themselves as deadly enemies. Perhaps, in difficult survival situations, humans define "like me" down to a very fine calibration.

But even that is too simplistic ...

I agree, "breeds of humans" doesn't sound right, but it might be a useful concept. On the other hand, we're supposed to be reasonable. We could say "nation" or "culture" or something non-biological to emphasize our differences. On the other, other hand, there is something biological, or the top marathoners wouldn't all be Ethiopian or Kenyan.

83 posted on 10/03/2017 7:21:57 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("What comes after diversity is the grim uniformity of Islam." ~Mark Steyn)
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To: TexasFreeper2009
It flips people out when you use it though.
84 posted on 10/03/2017 7:23:31 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles! (pink bow))
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To: markomalley
I'm not sure Indians had pronouns at all, but they sure had words for "man" and "woman." Every one of them. As usual, the angry geriatric little lady is making it up as she totters along. She doesn't need a bicycle, she needs a quad cane or walker.
85 posted on 10/03/2017 7:31:11 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: markomalley

God is a male chauvinist pig?

Or maybe she envisions the Engineers from Alien(s).


86 posted on 10/03/2017 7:32:26 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: Tax-chick

What use is there for hair color as a designation?

Driver’s license requires it.


87 posted on 10/03/2017 7:33:26 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

It’s really a shame that this subject can’t usually be discussed rationally. I find it quite interesting.

I believe that every group and subgroup you can create will have certain strengths and weaknesses when compared to other groups. Isolate the two groups long enough and those strengths and weaknesses will be amplified through the generations. This doesn’t mean one group, breed or whatever is superior, just that they have some things they are strong at and others they are weak at relative to other groups.

Even within the same family individuals can have massive differences in abilities and aptitudes. Two of my children are as different as different can be when it comes to their strengths and weaknesses. Give them mates with similar traits and isolate them and their descendants for thousands of years and the resulting populations would still probably show similar strengths and weaknesses as the original two siblings in my opinion.


88 posted on 10/03/2017 7:33:39 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Make America Great Again !)
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To: fishtank
Her jokes were funnier when she was writing for Mad Man Harvey Kurtzman:


89 posted on 10/03/2017 7:35:34 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: Tax-chick
Reality is always complex and with really odd twists and turns.
90 posted on 10/03/2017 7:38:30 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles! (pink bow))
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To: Jim Robinson

“-——saying that “laughter is the only free emotion,” because “you can compel fear, obviously, but you can also compel love if people are kept dependent for long enough.”

This makes as much sense as Maya Angelou’s poetry.

The only reaction to both is,”huh?”.

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91 posted on 10/03/2017 7:40:04 PM PDT by Mears
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To: TexasFreeper2009
Not only aren't you an "expert", but you should sue whatever school you attended...unless you slept through ALL of your classes, when you weren't cutting them.

Do you know what Mediterranean F=Greeks and Italians and French look like?

Hint, hint...NOTHING at all like a mixed race person!

Your "opinion", which isn't based on ANY science nor in depth study, or even in factual historical evidence, is not only worthless, but patently ridiculous in the extreme!

The Ancient Egyptians, Greeks, Phonecians, and Carthaginians where ALL Caucasoids and they didn't intermarry with those of the Negroid race!

I keep posting FACTS to you, which you ignore. Read my posts and learn something, instead of making stuff up, in your head and then posting it.

Better still...since the subject appears to interest you, go to a GOOD library and take out OLD books about genetics ( do read the works of Gregor Mendel ), a translation of Caesar's GALLIC WARS, Virgil's THE AENEID, and as many factual books about ancient history and people as you can find.

We DO know that Julius Caesar "mated" with an Africa. Her name was Cleopatra ( the last of a long line of Ptolemaic/GREEK rulers of Egypt...who NEVER had progeny by a Negroid African! )and she was a 100% Caucasoid!

We also now know, re DNA testing, that an escaping boat load of Ancient Jewish men, who were mostly of the the priesthood, made it , all the way to what is now South Africa, did marry Negroid African women, and their current male descendants ( who are all Negroid looking and have NO Semetic physical characteristics...NONE, today ! ) ALL carry the special Rabbinc Cohen gene. So the Lemba tribe throws your theory into a cocked hat!

Oh...you DO keep stepping into it! LOL

The Annu, of Japan have CURLY hair and they ARE Caucasoids!

Some Europeans have straight hair, some of them have curly hair, some have wavy hair and NONE of THAT has a damned thing re marring a black person!

The Neanderthals weren't a different RACE; they were a different type of human being!

92 posted on 10/03/2017 7:46:59 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: markomalley

What a rambling mess of crazy


93 posted on 10/03/2017 8:24:52 PM PDT by TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig (Repeal & replace Obamacare, tax reform, fix infrastructure, fixin military, Israel, kill enemies)
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To: nopardons

Excellent summary, thank you for the information.


94 posted on 10/03/2017 9:54:58 PM PDT by AllAmericanGirl44
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To: markomalley

Liberals love science. Except when they don’t.


95 posted on 10/03/2017 9:58:49 PM PDT by eddie willers
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To: AllAmericanGirl44

Thanks...much appreciated. :-)


96 posted on 10/03/2017 10:05:25 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: markomalley

The woman is apparently still alive.

Reality rebuts her.


97 posted on 10/03/2017 10:14:20 PM PDT by lurk
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To: markomalley

Invented? like created by God invented?


98 posted on 10/03/2017 10:17:19 PM PDT by CJ Wolf (It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

brave or squaw?


99 posted on 10/03/2017 10:19:58 PM PDT by CJ Wolf (It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World)
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To: Tax-chick

IF IT IS FALSE, IT IS NOT A FACT.


100 posted on 10/03/2017 11:11:12 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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