Everybody is one or the other.
That's it.
Posted on 03/22/2023 7:35:28 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Atheist evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins has defended Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling from the criticism she has received for her pushback against the efforts of trans activists to “pretend biology doesn’t exist.”
Dawkins appeared on the program “Piers Morgan Uncensored” Monday, where he and host Piers Morgan discussed a suggestion from a group of scientists to abandon the use of “gendered” terms such as man, woman, mother and father.
Morgan denounced the effort to “degender and neutralize language,” lamenting that “they’re doing it from a completely false pretext that you can somehow pretend biology doesn’t exist, particularly when it comes to someone’s sex.”
“It’s incontrovertible, there’s no scientific doubt about this, and yet a small group of people have been quite successful actually in reshaping vast sways of the way society talks and is allowed to talk,” Morgan added.
Dawkins described this phenomenon as “bullying,” denouncing the way that famed Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling and British philosophy professor Kathleen Stock have been “bullied” because they “stood up to it.”
Rowling has repeatedly taken to Twitter in recent years to express her concerns about what she characterized as efforts to erase “the lived reality of women.” In June 2020, she expressed particular outrage about an op-ed published in Devex that featured the phrase “people who menstruate” in the headline. Rowling sarcastically remarked, “I’m sure there used to be a word for those people,” offering up the terms “wumben,” “wimpund” and “woomud” rather than the correct answer: “women.”
Rowling’s remarks surrounding the reality of biological sex have generated backlash from LGBT activists, including Kerry Kennedy of the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Foundation. Kennedy maintained that the children’s book author’s comments about biological sex diminished “the identity of trans and non-binary people, undermining the validity and integrity of the entire transgender community.”
Kennedy’s condemnation of Rowling prompted the writer to determine that she had “no option but to return the Ripple of Hope Award bestowed on me last year.” Rowling stated that she was “deeply saddened that RFKHR has felt compelled to adopt this stance,” insisting that “no award or honor, no matter my admiration for the person for whom it was named, means so much to me that I would forfeit the right of conscience to follow the dictates of my own conscience.”
Reacting to the treatment of Rowling and others, Dawkins insisted that “it’s very upsetting the way this tiny minority of people has managed to capture the discourse and to really talk errant nonsense.” When asked, “what’s the answer to it,” Dawkins responded, “science.”
“There are two sexes,” Dawkins asserted. “As a biologist, there are two sexes and that’s all there is to it.”
Like Rowling, Dawkins’ advocacy on behalf of biological sex has not come without consequences.
In the biologist’s case, he was stripped of his title of “Humanist of the Year” after sending out a tweet in April 2021 declaring that “some men choose to identify as women, and some women choose to identify as men” before warning that “you will be vilified if you deny that they literally are what they identify as.”
Dawkins defended his 2021 tweet during his appearance on “Piers Morgan Uncensored,” stressing that he was merely asking people to “discuss” his comment. After Dawkins recalled how he had encouraged discussions throughout his entire life working at universities, Morgan asked, “why have we lost that ability to actually have an open and frank debate?”
“There are people for whom the word ‘discuss’ doesn’t mean discuss. It means you’ve taken a position,” he replied. “I thought it was a reasonable thing to discuss.”
Dawkins addressed another comment he made in the April 2021 tweet, referring to how “in 2015, Rachel Dolezal, a white chapter president of NAACP, was vilified for identifying as Black.” Dawkins detailed how “I actually wrote a couple of follow-up articles to this,” contending that “race is actually a much more fluid concept than sex” in light of the high interracial marriage rate.
“It actually is a perfectly reasonable thing for somebody to identify as some particular race if they want to,” Dawkins added. “Sex is not like that. Sex really is binary, and therefore it’s certainly worth discussing that odd anomaly.”
In 2021, Dawkins signed a declaration opposing gender reassignment surgeries and puberty blockers for trans-identified children.
Ketanji Brown Jackson says she “not a biologist,” admitting that the definition of “woman” is physiological and not psychological, to avoid offending progressives.
She, of course, knows well what a woman is. The fact that such a silly question can’t be directly answered reflects the insanity of the political moment.
So, Justice Brown Jackson, you want a Biologist ( and a Ph.D at that ) to answer your question? THERE IT IS.
Now, you OUGHT to know the next time this question comes up. But I bet you're STILL going to make-believe that the answer isn't clear.
We live in outrageous times.
From pure scientific point of view, there are only two sexes.
All the gender reassignment surgeries are cosmetical and should be treated like those!
That means no taxpayer or insurance monies!
I dunno if anyone recalls this, but it was Dawkins in his book “The Selfish Gene” who coined the term “meme.” He suggests that “memes” are thought-DNA - a way that the organism evolves WITHOUT materia. It is an interesting book and I should really get another copy of it.
Otherwise he’s generally been an annoying sh1thead over the last 20 years or so with his antagonism against religious people and conservatives. AT LEAST he’s not promoting the b1nary bu11sh1t, so good for him.
Where the heck did she get that first name? Ketanji? Maybe that was a famous doctor from Kenya. How does one even ssy it?
*shrug* Based on my observations, a lot of witches are gender confused. Not owl of Rowling’s readers are muggles...
Biology and anatomy, for the largest part, detail this.
Ergo, "there are two sexes," and along with this, many, many perversions and promiscuity which the perverse and promiscuous want to pretend are biological sex but are really perversions and promiscuity.
I sure don’t understand the bullying of JK Rowling.
She’s actually quite liberal on a whole host of issues from what I hear.
But she’s being condemned by her fellow liberals for not being liberal enough on all this LGBT business.
It’s a crazy world. If you disagree or take issue with the leftists on any particular issue , in this world , you are going to be condemned or canceled.
Wait, Dawkins was an Atheist? Who knew. I mean he is famous because he is such a great biologist they say...not anything to do with being an Atheist right? /s
‘Kennedy maintained that the children’s book author’s comments about biological sex diminished “the identity of trans and non-binary people, undermining the validity and integrity of the entire transgender community.”’
They’d have to obtain some validity and integrity first, before it could possibly be undermined.
‘Morgan asked, “why have we lost that ability to actually have an open and frank debate?”’
Because your fellow leftists can’t stand losing debates, Morgan.
Everybody is one or the other.
That's it.
>>Otherwise he’s generally been an annoying sh1thead over the last 20 years or so with his antagonism against religious people and conservatives. AT LEAST he’s not promoting the b1nary bu11sh1t, so good for him.
Richard Dawkins is an anti-Christian bigot. He, like all of Satan’s helpers, teach men to doubt to Word of God, like Satan did from the beginning.
I was never ignorant enough to be an atheist. Of course, neither is Richard Dawkins. He only pretends to be an atheist as public relations ploy in this corrupt society.
Mr. Kalamata
Atheism is just as much of a “religion” as any Christian religion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I,_Mudd
...culminating with Mudd and Kirk posing the liar paradox to Norman: Kirk claims everything Mudd says is a lie; and Mudd says to Norman, "I am lying." Unable to resolve the contradiction, Norman's mind burns out, which immediately causes the other androids to shut down.
Note that nowhere do they quote (or attribute) use of the word “gender” to the evolutionary biologist (Dawkins).
Because he understands that gender ≠ sex and sex ≠ gender.
He knows Jesus loves him, too, but has issues.
It most certainly is. The atheistic version of science is called methodological materialism, or "naturalism," for short. By "natural" atheists mean, "everything just happened" – no God or superintellect was required. If you do not kowtow to the materialist, i.e., humanist way of thinking, then you are a heretic. A bioengineer named Matti Leisola learned that he was a heretic when he abandoned Darwinism for Intelligent Design:
"We all have a tendency to avoid knowledge and opinions that threaten our position and worldview. We are usually more interested in personal peace than in truth. We tend to put off uneasy thoughts. And scientists are no different from other people. A scientific investigator's framework or paradigm often hinders him or her from fairly considering other views. The temptation is to consider a contrary paradigm to be not just in error but heretical."
"I learned of one particularly striking example of this from a student. He told me that he had offered a Finnish version of an excellent German textbook, Evolution: A Critical Textbook (Evolution—Ein Kritisches Lehrbuch), by Reinhard Junker and Siegfried Scherer, to a genetics professor. According to the student, the professor told him he was not willing to read heretical books. By heretical he meant views that contradicted his own."
"I tried to correspond with the professor, but it ended quickly because my views—according to him—were not scientific. By "scientific" he meant materialistic. He meant that I didn't hew to the rule of methodological materialism: No theories inconsistent with materialism/atheism are allowed. When I asked him how he explained the origin of a bacterial electromotor, he said evolution takes care of that easily. No details. Just boundless faith in the creative powers of evolution."
[Leisola & Witt, "Heretic: One Scientist’s Journey from Darwin to Design." Discovery Institute Press, 2018, Chap.2]
It is worthwhile to mention that the self-proclaimed atheist, Richard Dawkins, was excommunicated from the American Humanist Association in 2021, and was stripped of his 1996 Humanist of the Year Award, for questioning the woke rules guarding transgenderism. This is the heretical Tweet by Dawkins that precipitated the firestorm:
Dawkins tried to backtrack – even ensuring everyone that he was in no way allied with "Republican bigots." LOL! But it was too late: he has already committed the unpardonable sin of stepping a foot off the plantation.
Mr. Kalamata
What the Left want, are people who will accept the Party Line, no matter what it is.
To test their followers, they put out absurdities so they can smoke out anyone who continues to have any degree of independence or integrity, and destroy them as a lesson for the others.
It isn’t really about the trannies. They are just today’s tool for the faceless people who really control the Left.
There are two sexes. And there is a tiny subset of each with a mental condition which causes them to have abnormal desires for sex with the same. And even a smaller subset believing that they are trapped in the wrong body.
We should be curing mental instabilities rather than enabling or celebrating them.
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