Philippa Gregory thinks that two sexes, male and female, is a "myth"

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According to journalist Susan Dalgety's Substack (a good read), the author Philippa Gregory, who has sold gazillions of historical fiction novels, thinks there are more sexes than we first thought!

https://susandalgety.substack.com/p/philippa-gregory-may-be-a-bestselling

Here is the quote from Dalgety:

"Philippa Gregory, who prides herself as a feminist, does not believe in the “myth of two sexes.” She writes glowingly of a modern world where it is impossible to divide humans into two categories, male and female. “It is as fictional as a sorting hat – we are more diverse than and more varied, and more changeable over time, in a richer multiple word than the binary model…” And she points out that in the 1990s, American sexologist, Anne Fausto-Sterling, counted five sexes (male, female, merm, ferm and herm), while French scientist Eric Vilain suggested an “infinite number of biological genders.” It was at this point I dropped my coffee cup."

And yet again with the tedious trope that in order for people to be interesting and the world to be diverse, we must dispense with the fact of the sex binary by which every single human has been produced, ever.

She didn't say that when she lived in Hartlepool! She'd have been laughed out of town. Maybe that's because she was Pippa then. Your thoughts must get so much more important when you're full name worthy. Or not.

@ErrolTheDragon labels have a purpose, heuristics or shortcuts to help us explain things about people. Referring to someone's sex does that for everything legit explained with that label, along with so many others too numerous to list. Our brain relies on a huge number of different kinds of short cuts, it's not just in our language and voice communication

What a lot of words to tell white, "c*s", older women to fuck off as their fear of male violence (only those men who know you already, of course!) is unjustified. Get in the sea!

Anne Boleyn might have kept her head...

Some labels (including sex) have a useful purpose. Other shortcut labels are just for boxes to shove people into. They may have a purpose but not necessarily a good one.

Gregory is the epitome of a privileged muppet. Her cavalier attitude towards the reality of other women’s lives disgusts me.

There’s always a ‘superior intellect’ fad in artistic circles: a hundred-odd years ago it was eugenics or the supernatural, psychic research and seances, now it’s gender woo.

Anne Boleyn might have kept her head...

For sure, she wouldn't have married Henry, and Elizabeth wouldn't have been born because Henry wouldn't have needed to divorce Catherine of Aragon, England would have remained Catholic (at least for a while longer) under his reign followed by King Mary ... and then who knows?

I can't take much more stupid.

Someone who spent too much time clicking her pen in biology lessons.

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"Philippa Gregory, who prides herself as a feminist, does not believe in the “myth of two sexes.” She writes glowingly of a modern world where it is impossible to divide humans into two categories, male and female.^

But it's still how babies are made.

Whatever.....

There’s always a ‘superior intellect’ fad in artistic circles: a hundred-odd years ago it was eugenics or the supernatural, psychic research and seances, now it’s gender woo.

Hasn't gone away. Eugenics in the form of eradicating children who develop into LGB adults. Woo in the form of Moran's auras or gendered souls. Too many pink brains to count and Izzard's coded DNA.

TRSOH is hopelessly entrammelled in these meshed abuses and distortions.

@ErrolTheDragon of course, I didn't mean to imply otherwise. Over the generations we rename, discard and create new ones for that reason. Some barely last a few years of popular usage

@ErrolTheDragon
Oh no, none of that - only MORE DRAGONS. Possibly adding ice dragons &/or water dragons to the traditional fire dragons 🤔

Stupid, stupid woman.

I can’t read her stuff. One of her non-royal books of the Wideacre trilogy was really creepy and seems to relish in a plot about incest and another of hers Virgin Earth had quite a rapey salacious vibe involving a young female character which was equally repellent and that was it for me.

God knows what other weird shit is in her head if that’s what she chooses to write about, so I’m not wholly surprised that she can buy into such delusional weird bullshit as gender ideology.

Just in an ex farmhouse I think.
A relative lives down the road.

I see this and hear 'I'm a good girl. A very very good girl. I'm using all the words, I'm denying reality on command like a really good girl, I'm genuflecting very hard. I'm such a good girl. Please don't threaten to kill me and find out where my children go to school'.

Blink twice if you want to be rescued Phil. We get it.

I don't wish to sound ageist but she's nearly 70 which is far too old for this nonsense. I genuinely do think some of this nonsense is down to older women trying to hold on to their youth by keeping up with the cool kids they know who are into a particular fad without once considering how they're not actually the cool kids.

It is good news though- we only need to fear the men we know rather than all men, seeing as men are unlikely to attack women they don't know. Hoorah.

I'm infuriated by PG here. We can only reproduce as a species by having one of each biological sex getting involved. Or one of each gamete if you want to put the finer point on it. Does she not understand that gender is the adjective, but sex is the indisputable fact.

I read a Jenny Coogan book where she had a supporting character who was a transwoman. She found love and romance with a man who overlooked his sexual orientation (straight) because she was so lovely and gender is more important amiright. The joyful gaslighting was worrying.

She is historically inaccurate all the time.

Most historians don't do that sort of history. Indeed, Marxist history (still current) is only interested in movements, economics and social change on the general scale. Rape in warfare doesn't make much of an entrance - which is probably why most people are still surprised rape happens in war. It's a weapon.

I am afraid 'rapey and salacious' sells.

Some people are just so full of shit.
Everyone's jumping on this ridiculous bandwagon right now.

When this fad fizzles out, you just know these people will backtrack and come out with all sorts of bollocks yet again.

Was being kind.
Afraid to speak out.
Didn't understand biology.
Etc etc

Philippa Gregory thinks that two sexes, male and female, is a "myth"

Well Phillipa Gregory is a fucking idiot then, isn't she?

Personally I will take the opinion of Professor Lord Robert Winston who has spent an entire , very distinguished medical career dealing with the outcome of the differences between women and men and whose stated view is that there are two sexes, female and male, over that of Phillippa Gregory no matter how many novels she has sold.

Anyone who goes by the words of Anne fuckin Fausto-Sterling should not be taken seriously. Absolute joker.