Fussy
The state of this.
Just look at that. Now they’re hunting around to check on WHAT COMMONISST FAGGOT TRAITOR TERF has failed to sign. They’re drawing up A List of People Who Need To Have Signed Because We Suspect Them and then checking the list name by name – have YOU signed the letter Condemning The Witch? And have you, and you, and you?
And, as many have pointed out, it’s pretty striking to see a philosophy academic call it “fussy” to think the facts claimed in the letter attacking a woman and a colleague should be accurate.
As some day it may happen that a scapegoat must be found
I’ve got a little list — I’ve got a little list
Of wokieness offenders who might well be underground
And who never would be missed — who never would be missed!
There’s the philosophic woman who got an OBE
There’s the TERF who keeps on flaunting her actual PhD
There’s the one who reads before she signs and makes a stupid fuss,
There’s the journalist who’s tweeting that she’s not One of Us.
And all persons who won’t pronoun, however I insist.—
They’d none of ’em be missed — they’d none of ’em be missed!
I read so much belligerent ranting from nasty trans people on this site that I thought I’d draw your attention to the blog of someone who deals with her transition in a decent way:
In her About Me section she says
Her research interests are not totally different from mine, and in fact we participated in the same meeting a few years ago, she in person and me in spirit (represented by a colleague who present our paper). I’ve not met her in person, however. Notice that I’ve no objection to using “she” and “her” to refer to someone who’s honest about it. Notice also that she writes “male” — no nonsense about “gender”.
I suspect that by “46xy” she means what I would write as “44XY” — I don’t suppose she has a total of 48 — but no matter.
Thank you, looks very interesting. The first written post (after a string of videos) on the front page is an August one on the virus, beautifully written and informative.
In the same light as Athel’s contribution, here is a gay white writer’s appeal.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/no-its-not-ok-to-be-a-gay-white-man-b95f64401856
Just nitpicking, but..,
Nope, she’s correct. Normal human karyotype is 46XY or 46XX. The number is the total, followed by the sex chromosomes specified. Abnormalities are listed if present, so someone could have a karyotype for example of 45XO, (i.e., a female with only one sex chromosome), or 45XX -21 (a female with only one copy of chromosome 21), or 47XXX (female with three X chromosomes), or 47XY +17 (a male with three copies of chromosome 17). 44XY would be a male missing two chromosomes that would then have to be specified (e.g. 44XY -21 -23).
*doffs biologist’s cap*
Carry on :-)