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'Educate yourself'

57 replies

PopstarPoppy · 02/06/2026 13:58

Further to a post I have just read, one of the things that makes me angriest in the gender debate is when adherents of gender ideology tell people who disagree with them to 'educate' themselves. I have even faced this in the workplace. Coming from people whose position has no scientific basis or credibility, it's insulting and blinkered, but it's also chilling. It's like we're living in 1984, where wrongthink exists and should be punished.

We're not denying scientifically proven facts, like climate change or the earth is flat, we're arguing against an ideology. Nobody should be told to 'educate themselves' because they disagree with a position that is nothing more than an opinion. It's just another way to shut down a debate that the gender ideologues know they can't win through reasoned, logical discussion.

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Waitingfordoggo · 02/06/2026 14:08

This phrase absolutely boils my piss. Precisely the opposite action is required- these people have not educated themselves (those who think they have always link to the Nature article which I think was about sex as a spectrum and DSDs). They’re so insufferably smug. They are the same people who say ‘I can see someone didn’t progress beyond High School biology’. 😡

WhatNoRaisins · 02/06/2026 14:07

For me that phrase is a red flag. If anything it's made me want to learn less about issues I don't know a lot about.

Pinkgin00 · 02/06/2026 14:05

Two phrases I cannot stand, one of them is educate yourself, and the other is "Nuff said"

Papster · 02/06/2026 14:05

A phrase that enrages me.
I can hear the smugness

SylvanMoon · 02/06/2026 14:04

They only say this when they actually believe the pseudoscience, convinced that were we to read about the 378 million genders and how sex is actually a spectrum, then we too would become ardent handmaidens. So telling them that we have indeed "educated" ourselves has no effect on their arguments.

BridgetPhillipsonIsACowardlyJobsworth · 02/06/2026 14:03

It's just another slogan they reach for when they're backed into a corner with nowhere else to go because behind all their assertions is nothing but fluff and lies.

SqueakyDinosaur · 02/06/2026 14:01

I have been told this several times and my reply is always that I have, and that's why I hold the views that I do. I mentioned on another thread that it's my impression that the GC side of the argument has put in a LOT more work in researching and understanding the facts and the issues, and that at least in the UK it's really finally paying off.