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Your Gender? A Friendly Guide to the Public Debate - a male philosopher writes at length on an issue he clearly doesn't understand

59 replies

stumbledin · 01/04/2020 23:44

I realise this is nothing new, but here is the latest example of how academics, especially male ones, think they can turn a real life issue for women into a paper to add to their CV.

The blog post is open for comments, but maybe the best thing is it having no comments to illustrate nobody cares what he thinks!

Published by Practical Ethics of University of Oxford blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2020/03/what-is-your-gender-a-friendly-guide-to-the-public-debate/

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ScarlettBlaize · 02/04/2020 07:58

Now maybe you say something like, “I want to know whether you can engage in penile-vaginal intercourse unassisted.” Maybe this is a date or something and you’re trying to figure out where it’s headed. In any case, I can answer this functional question. I could let you know that, under the right conditions, I would be able to engage in penile-vaginal intercourse if it was consensual, and so forth.

Oh be still my beating cunt.

CircleofWillis · 02/04/2020 07:53

Oh my goodness! That 'pub discussion as posited by Brian describes the worst date ever!

Q: what gender are you?
A: what do you want to know about me?
Q: I’m trying to find out if you are chromosomally disposed to getting a disease that people with XY chromosomes tend to get.*

To Brian: I suggest you do use notes when you give your next talk.

ThinEndoftheWedge · 02/04/2020 07:32

moron

Helmetbymidnight · 02/04/2020 07:32

what an absolute prat. ye gads.

ScarlettBlaize · 02/04/2020 07:28

Brain raped
A binder, rap
I err bad. Nap.
Beard in rap.
Paid? Barren
A rap, inbred.

namewhatname · 02/04/2020 07:16

People who are perceived from a young age to have female reproductive features tend to be systematically disadvantaged along numerous dimensions in societies that are patriarchal—that are characterized by male dominance

Thanks for telling me about my experience as a woman - sorry, someone perceived from a young age to have female reproductive features - you boring, self-absorbed prat.

AnyOldSpartabix · 02/04/2020 06:53

Brian thinks that a clitoris and a penis are similar structures. Brian thinks a clitoris can be measured in centimeters!

Anyone else thinking that Brian has perhaps never seen a clitoris?

Anyway, I can’t read the whole thing. Brian asked a series of questions establishing sex and personality traits, then began some endless unreadable waffle, which is presumably designed to distract from the perfectly obvious fact that the vast majority of human beings are unequivocally man or woman and you can’t swap, and generally can’t even hide which you are if you went through male puberty.

Put on a dress if you like, Brian. While you are visibly male, people will respond to you as male.

LadyQuarantinaPluckington · 02/04/2020 00:31

Brian has a beard. Brian doesn't know much about the history of why women would need single sex provision. He's willing to accept that it might he hypothetically justified, but he can't think why. Brian makes long, unfocused speeches in which he references his beard repeatedly.

Brian doesn't think his inner mental life conforms to male stereotypes.

Brian is laughably wrong.

donquixotedelamancha · 02/04/2020 00:22

There’s no “manness” written in my genes.

Yeah right.