Posted on 03/31/2017 10:54:08 AM PDT by Kaslin
Sex and gender are serious subjects, but academics, pundits and the pop media have so stretched their meanings to use as weapons of political persuasion that the words sometimes don't mean very much. Communication becomes confusion and distraction.
The worst is when we're told to be blind to the obvious differences of the sexes because "identity," not biology, determines who we are. A society functions best when it uses conventional generalizations about sex and gender, as long as it acknowledges the prejudices that work against the exceptions among us. We can accept how biology determines who we are if we understand that common humanity includes variations on a theme. Tolerance of others is required.
But the culture is so polarized; the politics have become so fierce; and we've become so accustomed to the mean and ugly in the Age of Trump that common sense is banished to the margins, and beyond.
In the transgender debates, arguments usually focus on the so-called prejudice of young girls (and their parents) and young women who resist sharing a restroom or locker room with someone who now "identifies" as female but has kept what my 4-year-old grandson calls his "dingle." The natural modesty of the female of the species doesn't make such girls and women bigots, as they are frequently called. Choosing modesty over exposure in a restroom with men is, after all, one of the most private experiences of biological determination. What female modesty demonstrates is sensitivity to sexual differences that are accepted all around us in nature, literature, art and even advertisements. These differences have been ratified in small signs on restroom doors all over the world -- everyone knows what illustrations of skirts and trousers, bonnets and fedoras, cowgirls and cowboys are intended to convey. Fig leaves aren't fanciful.
Legal protections are important, and so is respect for those who suffer through a sex change, but 99 percent of the population shouldn't have to adjust morality and manners that flow from our basic understanding of sexuality to accommodate the less than 1 percent who want to sample a new identity. Language should be precise. Bloated language encourages prejudice. The culture shouldn't be put at the mercy of entertainers and athletes -- often with little understanding of anything beyond the stage or arena -- who promote boycotts over bathroom bills to draw attention to themselves.
Nor should we enable the ridiculous and the unfair in small-time sports where the kids live. Transgender males (with and without a dingle) are competing unfairly in weightlifting, track, cycling, wrestling and even mixed martial arts. They're bringing their faster speed, greater muscle mass and larger bone structure to compete against women with lesser muscle mass and smaller bone structure. This is, by definition, unfair.
There's a fault line in feminism, too, with denigration of certain things that women are equipped to do better than men. In her moving memoir, "The Rules Do Not Apply," Ariel Levy argues that despite gains in "third-wave feminism," women still can't have what they want in the way a man can. She writes in brutally honest terms about a miscarriage that brought out instincts of maternalism and feelings of tragic loss that surprised her.
Levy was married to a woman and five months pregnant, having been impregnated with a friend's sperm, when she lost her baby, delivering it alone in a hotel room in Mongolia, where she was on a reporting trip. The juxtaposition of the subject she was researching -- a Mongolian economy based on yak meat and goat hair that was transformed as miners replaced yaks and goats -- sounds remote and a little absurd as she reflects on how her dying son pushed himself out of her body like an "unholy storm," moving his tiny arms and legs that were as "pretty as a seashell." She shared only his brief whispers of a life but said, "there is no adventure I would have traded them for."
She was reassured that the long plane ride to Mongolia did not cause the miscarriage, but the reason why may have been related to her age (she was 38). She's skeptical now of the feminism that fails to tell young women who pursue careers that certain things about their bodies do have a sell-by date.
Her powerful pen has struck a nerve with many millennial women who are now reconsidering birth options. In an episode of the HBO series "Girls," one of the privileged, decadent young millennials in Brooklyn, portrayed by Lena Dunham, becomes pregnant in a casual affair. She is overwhelmed with sadness when the father tells her how pleased he is that she wants nothing from him. Sex and gender become more than manipulated words.
Its all part of the idea that we are bigoted and discriminatory about everything relating to sex and gender.
The military is compelled to put women in combat and on submarines. Why? Because the notion that it discriminates against women to not allow females in those roles overrides all other considerations.
>> we’ve become so accustomed to the mean and ugly in the Age of Trump
It was the “Age of Obama” where the mean & ugly hit critical mass.
I cannot believe how soiled relationships have become as a result of the progressive’s sexual revolution. Feminism is just a useful idiot to commie-pinko progressives.
I feel sorry for millennials struggling under the burden of this stupid ideology.
“...Sex and gender are serious subjects...”
It’s very easy...
Males have XY chromosomes
Females have XX chromosomes
It don’t matter one iota what you think or say you are...
All the irrational Marxist “gender” theory is to destroy the meanings of Words and Language. When you control all information (Words/Texts, etc.) you have Mind Control of the masses—literally. Without Truth (God), there is no freedom-—no Free Will possible. It is why “Truth will set you Free”. If everything children learn is a Lie—(which Marxism is—the Big Lie)—then they will be incapable of Reason and Logic.
When you destroy meaning of words—and make them meaningless, like the evil SCOTUS did to “marriage”, you literally destroy Christian Ethics, all Traditions, All Rationality and Wisdom of the Ages. Children exposed to sodomites and unnatural, vile behaviors will be corrupted. They embed “as normal” what they see and hear since they are irrational and immature and can’t know the truth. They are easily warped for life—like the Afghanis and Saudis in their “boy harem—hate women” culture. The children raised in evil-promoting cultures, become evil adults.
All this “gender” cr*— is to confuse children, make them so irrational and dumb and ignorant that they “think” like tribal ignorant serfs. The Transhumanists want all of us chipped-—so they can control all emotions, all thoughts, all memories ——so we are just interchangeable cogs for the State and corporations.
It has been the 200 “Kill God” plan, since ONLY Christian worldview created individuality, and critical thinking (outside the State box—abstract “thinking”) and Marxists can NEVER have individualism (identity which is mainly affected by sex and traditions).
They are able to ERASE 2000 years of ethics with their skool system of indoctrination and lies to little children to destroy concepts of mother and father and the Natural Family (basis of ALL civilizations). Christianity created Common Law and the US Constitution-—the ONLY worldview that made Slavery, incest, and pederasty into Evil.
The goal is to remove Christianity (freedom/individualism)—Wipe it off the face of the Earth for collective, group-”think”.
All mainstream Christian churches were taken over by 1960s by Marxists/homosexuals. They have to normalize Vice to destroy virtue formation in little children—so children “see” others only as objects (as a Means to an End—Marxism). It is why the hyper sexualization of our children by the sodomites in Hollywood and Billy Ayers’ curricula (Common Core).
Sex Ed was invented by Lukacs (a Cultural Marxist) to corrupt little children (as all the psy-ops by sodomites (Marxists) in Hollywood), and focus them on sexual parts to objectify human beings-—fixate them in puerile ages on sex easily corrupts their concepts of male and female, posits evil worldview about fathers and mothers, and maturity, and destroys intellectual development and Virtue formation. Sex Ed in public schools destroys morality in children (on purpose). They forced it into all public schools by 1970 to destroy America’s future generation—make them into immoral people incapable of taking care of their own children. It was designed to corrupt children and fixate them in puerile ages,—research Lukacs, Sex Ed/Hungary.
****I cannot believe how soiled relationships have become as a result of the progressive’s sexual revolution. Feminism is just a useful idiot to commie-pinko progressives.*****
That was always their motive: To find the moral, normal, Christian values under which we were raised and which we are passing to our children, and to then destroy them. The LBGT dysfunction was a gift which they have elevated to THE driving topic.
The socialists are controlling our conversations and our behavior. No freedom of speech or opinion allowed.
It isn’t just gender how about immigration. Now we have “non criminal illegal aliens” vs “illegal alien that have committed a serious crime”. This makes even discussion the issue impossible.
I remember a time when we were taught male and female. And science ruled the day. Today, Democrats have become the greatest fear of the 1960’s liberals: Democrats are anti-science, anti-education, anti-family, anti-democracy and anti-peace.
Yep. Wittgenstein—and even Plato—knew that when you destroy the meaning of Words, you create chaos and tyranny. Destroy Language and you destroy the culture.
The Cultural Marxists have been trying to destroy Christian Ethics since they declared “God is Dead” in the 1800s Germany. The Cultural Marxists knew to take over all the institutions (skools, universities, law schools, legal system, publishing agency and media (all information)-—they could control the Minds of the Masses. They literally marched through ALL our institutions and took them over —all of them-—by 1970.
Sex Ed was forced into the schools at that time and literally destroys virtue formation in children. Without Virtue, there is no freedom.
“In 1919, Georg Lukacs became Deputy Commissar for Culture in the short-lived Bolshevik Bela Kun regime in Hungary. He immediately set plans in motion to de-Christianize Hungary. Reasoning that if Christian sexual ethics could be undermined among children, then both the hated patriarchal family and the Church would be dealt a crippling blow. Lukacs launched a radical sex education program in the schools. Sex lectures were organized and literature handed out which graphically instructed youth in free love (promiscuity) and sexual intercourse while simultaneously encouraging them to deride and reject Christian moral ethics, monogamy, and parental and church authority. All of this was accompanied by a reign of cultural terror perpetrated against parents, priests, and dissenters. “
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/02/cultural_marxism.html#ixzz4cvhhpk7k
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It’s all about destroying the nuclear family whose bonds usually can’t be broken by government power.
From your link:
The pernicious influence of Adorno’s ‘authoritarian personality’ idea can be clearly seen in some of the research that gets public money.
“In Aug., 2003, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced the results of their $1.2 million tax-payer funded study. It stated, essentially, that traditionalists are mentally disturbed. Scholars from the Universities of Maryland, California at Berkeley, and Stanford had determined that social conservatives...suffer from ‘mental rigidity,’ ‘dogmatism,’ and ‘uncertainty avoidance,’ together with associated indicators for mental illness.” http://www.edwatch.org/ ‘Social and Emotional Learning” Jan. 26, 2005)
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Wow, that sounds like something Pope Francis would say.
You hit the nail right on the head.
This is what happens when God abandons a Nation
This is what happens when God abandons a Nation
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