Posted on 03/03/2015 3:00:35 PM PST by NYer
“The Church and the heresies always used to fight about words, because they are the only thing worth fighting about.” G. K. Chesterton, The Ball and the Cross.
When Pope Francis listed Gender Theory among the most destructive threats we face today, many people had no idea what he was talking about.
"Gender" used to be a perfectly respectable word – a grammatical term. In English some pronouns have gender: masculine, feminine or neuter. Living things, on the other hand, are categorized by sex: male or female. Recently, however, on forms rather than being asked for our sex, we are asked for our gender. The public did not object, probably assuming "gender" is just a genteel synonym for "sex," since "sex" can also mean "sexual intercourse." However, sex and gender are not interchangeable. We may speak of people "having sex," but we do not describe this as "having gender."
Most of the public were unaware that in the 1950’s gender was given another meaning. "Gender" is now used to describe one’s personal identification with a particular sex. "Sex" was reduced to the biological reality. According to Gender Theory: gender is not simply the natural expression of and inexorably linked to sex, but socially constructed; gender roles, imposed by oppressive cultures, can and should be changed; gender doesn’t have to match sex; gender is not limited to the male/female binary and can change over time; there are an unlimited number of genders; what appear to be natural differences between the sexes are oppressive stereotypes. To even mention the possibility that in some cases, sex difference should matter, is to open yourself to accusations of sexism. Pope Francis is quite correct when he points out the dangers of Gender Theory. It is a frontal attack on reality.
Gender theory owes a lot to the notorious John Money. While employed at Johns Hopkins, Money promoted a protocol for treating baby boys with severely damaged genitals. Surgeons were encouraged to amputate any remaining male parts and tell the parents to raise the boy as a girl. The parents were assured that the boy-to-girl would accept the change, because gender identity is constructed by socialization. In fact, Money was a fraud. He promoted his most famous case, that of the identical twin David Reimer, as a success for years when he knew David had rejected female identification and was living as a man. Follow-ups on other boys subjected to Money’s scheme revealed that many of them spontaneously rejected female identification. Even without external male parts, they knew they were boys.
Money also encouraged Johns Hopkins to perform so-called "sex change" operations. Biologically normal males, who claimed to have women’s brains, wanted their bodies to match their brains. Surgeons knew that the treatment was at best palliative. While they could transform male genitals into something resembling female genitals, this didn’t make their patients women. When Dr. Paul McHugh became the chief psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins, he commissioned a study of the results of the procedure. Its authors, Jon Meyer and John Hoopes, found that:
While the media showcases happy transitions, transsexuals suffer from a myriad of problems. They are more likely than any other group to be HIV-positive and to attempt suicides. Reading their case histories and autobiographies, one sees that while they may be able to "pass" as the other sex, their real sex is always present beneath the surface According to Dr. Robert Stoller:
Gender Theory is much like the Emperor’s new clothes. Anyone who won’t pretend to see the fantasy world created by Gender Theory--anyone who knows that there are natural differences between men and women, that the relationship between two persons of the same sex is not a marriage, that hormones and surgery do not make a man a woman, or that a male dressed as a female should not be allowed to play on girls’ teams or use girls’ locker rooms--is labeled a stupid, sexist, homophobic, transphobic bigot. Otherwise intelligent people deny the reality before them. They use feminine pronouns when referring to what is obviously a man altered to resemble a woman.
Pope Francis is the child in the crowd. He knows Gender Theory is a false and dangerous deception. He must speak out. While the Emperor only suffered embarrassment at being taken in, gender theory has real victims.
And I thought there were only two ... male and female. Catholic ping!
so very much of the world has entered into some sort of bizarre invisible alternate reality
How do satirists keep a half-step ahead of reality? I really don’t know how they do it anymore.
Can someone point to where he did this?
We don't have to be so literal about such things.
He mentioned it, although not exactly in those words, in a homily he gave somewhere, possibly in the Philippines. It wasn’t that specific.
And then, almost immediately afterwards, he invited the “transgendered” woman from Spain who believes she is becoming a man, told the diocese they had to pay for her trip, and, according to her, “affirmed” her.
The poor soul is very deluded, and actually knew she was doing something insane and evil. She didn’t start the procedure until after her mother had died, even though she was already living with her girlfriend which her mother didn’t like but could accept - but she said that she knew that doing the “transgender” process would kill her mother, so she didn’t do it.
And then we have Pope Foolish the First, who swans up, ever-desirous of publicity and the approval of the world, and invites her to Rome to make up for her “mistreatment.” She had complained to the Pope that her parish priest had told her that Satan was tempting her (which was exactly what was happening), so of course the Pope had to get involved, right?
No, it was in a book published in Italy, and also reportedly in a private conversation with an Austrian bishop. Google “pope francis gender theory” and “pope francis gender ideology” for details.
I’m guessing 99.9% change it as a joke trying to be funny.
If years ago some white KKK member preached to Indians and blacks that they had no solid genders, it would have been deemed racist.
I don’t recall threads on “gender theory”, but it appears that somehow this is being linked to the “ideological colonization” comments which I do remember. The latter comments, if I recall, weren’t clearly speaking of a so-called “gender theory”.
So Europe has gender segregated trains and parking lots because of rapes but gender neutral restrooms in name of PC?
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