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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

On the existence of females

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Stealhsquirrelnutkin · 09/06/2020 21:26

Has this been mentioned already? I looked and didn't find a thread. Andy Lewis @lecanardnoir wrote it as a thread on twitter yesterday and has now published it as a blog post.

It's a very clear refutation of the 'sex is a spectrum' twaddle, that even the most hard of thinking TRA should be able to grasp, and the illustrations are delightful.

www.quackometer.net/blog/2020/06/on-the-existence-of-females.html

What is strange is that in the past 10 years, an idea has evolved among the cat-food tin opening apes that sex is not real, it is an arbitrary construct, it is ill-defined and difficult to talk objectively about. It is a spectrum of possibilities rather than these two categories.

This is not an idea you will find in the biology peer-reviewed literature where sex is universally described as above – a category based on gamete types. The idea is used to undermine the ability of females to describe their unique position in life & their associated experiences.

It is a political and social idea that impacts females and their rights to define themselves as a material class. Biology rejects this absurd idea of the arbitrariness of sex. We need biologists to speak up and to say that rather than leaving it up to children’s fantasy authors.

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Melroses · 09/06/2020 21:45

I loved his "cat-food opening apes" and the pictures Grin

It is well presented and also worth reading and really enjoyable which is a relief, because so much on twitter isn't.

JigglypuffsCaptor · 09/06/2020 21:52

Tinned cat food opening apes 😂

But yes a great read, and surprisingly makes perfect sense. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Winesalot · 09/06/2020 22:03

It is great. a great leveler.

Wished I could have used it when I got into a circular argument with someone who tried to convinve me that sex is just a social construct and on a spectrum. A person who was a prominent uni lecturer who had posted the sex is a social construct post initially and this tweeter and I discussed it. He Didn’t seem to be able to give a name to another sex. And of course, it all relied on ‘outliers’ as he called the people with DSDs. My eyes haven’t stopped rolling.

ScrimpshawTheSecond · 09/06/2020 22:12
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