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> So as a result of this we get, for example, articles like this one on Dana Rivers, who murdered in cold blood a lesbian couple and their son: https://en.wikip
by tentacleuno 3y ago
> So as a result of this we get, for example, articles like this one on Dana Rivers, who murdered in cold blood a lesbian couple and their son: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana_Rivers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana_Rivers. He is described as "she" and "her" throughout the article, despite this actually being the crime of a man.
In this case, isn't the crime more important than what she chooses to identify as? I'm all for prosecuting a murder, but bringing gender politics into it feels strange and unwarranted.
- tvieron 3y agoWikipedia policy mandating that this man be described as a woman is bringing gender identity politics into it.
- tentacleuno 3y agoIt's not relevant to the premise of the article, though. I don't understand how someone committing a crime means we should change what gender we address them as. Does this mean that, for people you like, you respect their gender, while you do the opposite for people you dislike?
- soundnote 3y agoImagine if the Pope started spouting some completely insane nonsense, but did it ex cathedra. Are we to treat his ravings as fact since Catholicism holds that the Pope speaking ex cathedra is infallible? The editors wouldn't, and most of us wouldn't. Gender ideology/wokeness/whatever you want to call it is in many senses religious, and certainly their claims of TWAW/TMAM are not factual: Our science and medicine come far short of being able to actually change anyone's sex. We can, through constant intervention, force the body to change a bit into one direction, but not much more.