No need to take our place
About an hour ago:
What kind of clueless pest would try to tell Hibo Wardere to pay attention to trans issues instead of female genital mutilation? I wondered, so I went looking, and in mere seconds found an answer.
That’s who – clueless pests like that. No, there aren’t men with ovaries. Women are the only people who have ovaries; that’s what “woman” means.
The trans lobby really needs to stop hassling women.
I’m sure it will, just as soon as women have bowed to all of its present and future demands. That’s probably not what you meant, though.
I’m suddenly reminded of a very old J&M in which Mo is persuading Jesus that Islam is a religion of peace. Basically, once all enemies of Islam are either subjugated or dead then TA-Da! Peace.
I once studied the history of eugenics and learned that “intelligence” is an invented topic. It’s a whole combination of things and how one does on IQ tests and etc., is a poor way of measuring someone’s intrinsic worth. In short “intelligence” doesn’t exist in the brain.
But now we have this notion of “gender” which supposedly really does exist and women who (either through self-hatred or whatever) choose to call themselves “men” and are getting masectomies and taking testoterone and sometimes getting hysterectomies (and suffering thereby) are trying to change the language to confuse women’s issues. As are men who think they are women, to the extent that a penis is “female” and that the rights of serial rapists to have their “gender” respected trump the rights of genuinely female prisoners. (With women’s prisons being full of mostly non-violent offenders FWIW.)
Me, not only has gender become real, sex has been demoted from a physical reality to a nebulous feeling about oneself. Mind you, they’ll swear that black is custard and up is a white western colonial invention if it helps their case.
AoS, are you suggesting that up is not a white western colonial invention? You are doing real violence! To those of us who believe you can be up or down no matter what other people think your actual position is. You claim when I am on the ceiling I am up, but that denies my lived experience of being down when I am on the ceiling. And up as a concept never existed in traditional societies; they viewed all positions as inherently the same. You bigot! You Down Exclusive Radical Uppist!
Honestly, AoS, “up” is a matter of perspective, and colonial ones aren’t the only ones. Jesus. You stand there and point to up. By your head, right? Now stand on your head. Where’s “up”? By your feet! Check mate.
There is still much rancour concerning, and no little controversy, swirling around who should recieve credit for “up.” Some firmly believe that the Montgolier Brothers deserve recognition for “up,” as they did it early, and in a big way. Proponents of the Wright Brothers argue that “up” has little value if there is no control over direction. They have a point, as the airline industry would be much smaller if the travelling public were forced to choose their holiday destinations solely on the basis of prevailing winds. High speed air travel would be limited to hurricane season.
Otto Lilienthal is mostly remembered for discovering “into,” breaking his neck in the process.
As of yet, nobody has claimed responsibility for “down.”
Ah, crap! What have I started? All the credits to iknklast, Arcadia and not Your Name’s Bruce for three excellent responses. After much consideration and not a little laughter, Arcadia wins the Internet today for appealing perfectly to my silly sense of humour.
Are awards white colonial inventions, too? What about humour? I hardly dare breathe in case respiration is also on the naughty list.
@AoS, you might be respiring (such an outdated idea), but the rest of us are inspiring, which is so much more generous, and you should try it.
*gleefully accepts my one internet, hopefully a nice consolation for having all news taken off Facebook*
The Grand Old Duke of York is going to have a conniption.
…and when he was only halfway up, he was neither up nor an invention of white western colonial thought.
Hmm. Doesn’t scan as well as the original but hardly a reason for a hissy fit. Bloody over-excited aristocracy.
It’s the inbreeding.
Yes, but halfway down the stairs is the stair where I sit. There isn’t any other stair quite like it…but, well, I guess Winnie the Pooh is definitely a western invention, so maybe I should crawl off into a white supremacist hole, write “I will not act white” on the blackboard a thousand times, and sink into a slough of despond (or are sloughs of despond and blackboards also western colonialist imperialist inventions? Crap. I’m gonna need a lot of reeducation for this, aren’t I?)