hairybobbins

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by hairybobbins 4y ago
> If someone thinks biological sex is binary, that shows they're uninformed. Like gender, it is essentially a point cloud in n-dimensional space - largely bimodal, but with a few other notable clusters. Not really though - if some
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by hairybobbins 4y ago
You might disagree with this point of view, but that doesn't make it unreasonable. As Wright notes in https://www.realityslaststand.com/p/sex-is-not-a-spectrum , this view of sex as a binary system is based on the
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by hairybobbins 4y ago
It's not, you have confused several different groups. Those you refer to as 'TERFs' are the feminists with a gender critical viewpoint, who are focused on women's rights and ending sex-based oppression. I mean, can you i
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by hairybobbins 4y ago
I meant generally as in, most people, who don't take an active interest in this topic. I know it's controversial to those who do. But I think that in itself is worth challenging. I mean, in the comment at the top of this thread, w
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by hairybobbins 4y ago
This article, by Colin Wright, is a good introduction to the 'sex realist' viewpoint, and the arguments it addresses: https://www.realityslaststand.com/p/sex-is-not-a-spectrum A good example of an opposing po
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by hairybobbins 4y ago
I know it's a controversial topic. I'd rather it wasn't, and that, given the wide-ranging impact on policy and law, people could discuss this freely without e.g. getting banned from online payment services and social media si
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by hairybobbins 4y ago
'TERFs' are just feminists who want to retain female-only spaces. This is not a viewpoint that's even remotely comparable to Nazism, whose adherents are a distinct group with a set of beliefs that are inherently contradictory
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by hairybobbins 4y ago
Why do you find this offensive? Wright's key points regarding 'sex realism', as I understand them, are that sex is not a spectrum (as many people are claiming these days) but a male-female binary, and that sex is still an imp