Thursday, March 24, 2022

Who can say, really?

 


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  1. There was an interesting implication to Jackson's answer that she cannot define what a woman is as she isn't a biologist, as it suggests she believes the task of defining what a woman is belongs to the field of biology.

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    1. The more obvious issue is that if a judge can't define "woman" then how will they rule on title IX cases? If the law has no say in how a woman is defined, then how can the law say whether a woman is discriminated against? etc etc

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    2. Her answer tells us how she is going to rule. Hence the Orwellian "she was treated worse than Kavanaugh" spin.

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  2. She herself can, obviously.

    That's the difference between tyranny and freedom. Tyrants called her a slave. When someone else decides to make the determination, not even knowing the person or the circumstances, this is tyranny.

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    1. Tyranny is dominant state-corporate-cultural elites emptying words of meaning and trying to remake human nature into an image more congenial to their interests. A lifelong consumer dependent upon hormones, expensive medical intervention and specialty goods is an ideal serf.

      That it does so using male-supremacist caricatures as it kicks natural womanhood a few rungs down the ladder are just the strawberries on the cake.

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    2. I would easily concede "tyranny" if the so-called dscce's insisted we divorce our wives, cut off our penises, and marry people they designated as intersex. But that's not happening.

      Trying to enforce courtesy may be just a little more effective than tattling on bullies in middle school. Offended persons might end up with a shade of the law on their hands.

      I don't see the problem with treating people respectfully. It's a big country, after all. If someone doesn't like it, just do what lots of folks do on the internet: hang out with people just like them and pretend everybody else doesn't exist.

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    3. "A wild pitch by Flowerday and the runners advance."

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