Posted on 02/15/2023 8:03:10 PM PST by aquila48
Project that called for phasing out of non-inclusive language deserves contemptuous ridicule, says eminent biologist.
Richard Dawkins has vowed to "use every one of the prohibited words" that scientists have called to be phased out because they are no longer inclusive.
On Tuesday, academics working in ecology and evolutionary biology called for the avoidance of words such as male, female, man, woman, mother, father, alien, invasive, exotic and race.
Instead, they encouraged the use of terms such as "sperm-producing" or "egg producing" or "XY/XX individual" to avoid "emphasising hetero-normative views". But Prof Dawkins, the eminent evolutionary biologist and author of The Selfish Gene and the God Delusion branded the suggestions ridiculous.
“The only possible response is contemptuous ridicule,” he told The Telegraph. “I shall continue to use every one of the prohibited words. I am a professional user of the English language. It is my native language.
“I am not going to be told by some teenage version of Mrs Grundy which words of my native language I may or may not use.”
Other experts also branded the alternatives "absurd" and argued they could cause confusion in scientific fields.
They also pointed out that the terms "egg producing" and "sperm producing" were simply synonyms for male and female, and continued to confirm that sex is binary.
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Broken clock.
I don’t agree with him on a lot of things, but congratulations to him. This will only stop if people in the sciences will stand up to it.
Come to think, biologists should be leading the pack. Being told to refer to a male as a woman because he wants to be one while his entire biology is that of a man should have been the first thing they opposed.
If we wholesale abandoned all the traditional words and completely adopted all their ridiculous new words, wouldn’t we be right back where we started? After all, “sperm-producing” and “egg producing” are just synonyms for “male” and “female.”
Only in a bored and pathetic western culture can educated idiots come up with some asinine crap like this.
That’s the problem with our society. There is no real struggle, so fools feel like they have to make up 💩 like this.
Credit where credit is due. He’s been intellectually consistent as a skeptic and has fought against the SJW cult just as he fought against traditional religion, although much less successfully. Thats more than you can say about the majority of his colleagues. Thats why you don’t hear about him nearly as much as you used to.
science and biology has called us male or female for thousands of years. Today it is not based on science but on feelings to call people something else. I will stick with science and biology, not someones delusional feelings. If they don’t like it, they can take a science and biology class.
Pointers and Setters...
There once was a queer from Khartoum
Who took a lesbian up to his room
They argued all night
About who had the right
To do what, and with which, and to whom!
“That’s the problem with our society. There is no real struggle, so fools feel like they have to make up 💩 like this.”
That is absolutely true.
We have being infected with a severe case of “affluenza”. The disease that causes one to not appreciate how good they have and where it comes from.
Sooner than later this will end and it won’t be pretty.
Just as the left likes to tar conservatives with the term “election denier”, we shouldn’t hesitate to call these wokesters “biology deniers”.
“I am not going to be told by some teenage version of Mrs Grundy
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Today’s generation haven’t a clue who Mrs. Grundy was.
She had the hots for Mr. Weatherbee.
Drama is created where there’s a vacuum as you suggest.
Who is this guy?! Does he think that he's some sort of a biologist, or what?!
No one really knows what a male or a female is!
/mordant sarcasm
Regards,
Dawkins posits that life came from aliens. Who gave them life? Other aliens)
Dawkins is similar to Biden in that they are abjectly arrogant and condescending.
Ditto for me.
If the federal government didn’t pay for this type of absurd research, universities wouldn’t pull out their own wallet to do it.
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