Language does matter
More precision or less precision? It depends on who is talking.
A transgender science teacher has become the subject of criticism after a video of him insisting it was important to “clean up” language, like “women produce eggs” and “males are more likely to be colorblind,” in order to be more “accurate” and “precise,” resurfaced from a webinar series held earlier this year.
Sam Long, an activist for “gender-inclusive” policies and “trans/non-binary” educators, teaches science at Denver South High School, part of the Denver Public Schools (DPS) system. Long, along with other science teachers, has previously spent time establishing “gender-inclusive biology” curriculum resources, which he promotes to educators across the country.
Science teachers teaching magical nonsense.
During an April webinar series “to address hot topics that are on the top of educators’ minds,” hosted by the U.S. Department of Education (DOE), Long argued it wasn’t the most “accurate” or “precise” statement to say it’s “women who produce eggs.” Rather, Long argued, it was more “precise” to say, “it’s ovaries that produce eggs.”
And it’s only women, women only, who have ovaries.
“We’re acknowledging that not all women produce eggs and also not all egg producers are women,” Long says during the webinar. “We’re teaching students that language matters. We’re not just talking about imaginary people,” he continued.
Language does matter, and it’s a lie that not all egg producers are women. Yes all egg producers are women. Schools should not be teaching lies in science class. Literature class (should they have such a thing) are closely related to fiction, so truth and falsehood are not really relevant, but in science classes, this kind of deliberate bullshitting should be expelled.
Someone should study this man to find out how he got so f’ked up.
Language does matter, especially when it’s used to get everyone so screwed up on what they are talking about that they can bamboozle everyone.
Is this person, going by the name Sam Long, a man or a woman? The story consistently says “he,” but “Sam Long” is transgender. So, is “transgender” “Sam Long” a woman masquerading as a man, or a man masquerading as a woman?
Sam Long is a transman. Posting the link feels like doxxing to me. But it’s easy enough to find their profile.
Sam is making great points guys. Women, as we know, are really only to be considered the container or carrier of the ovary, with lots of other systems that have nothing to do with oocyte production. Granularity in teaching is good as it avoids all those non-reproductive considerations. But why teach it in terms of such a large, clunky system as the entire ovary? That organ is just the carrier of the actual producer of germ cells: the ovarian follicle. But why teach about them when even they are only passingly relevant? The star of the show is the oocyte and its various forms through the maturation process, all else is a mere support structure and thus superfluous. We should really just teach about sperm and egg with no reference to any pesky detail such as people. BTW what about those gender criticals and their habit of breaking people down to anatomy? Gross.
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A fine example of the genderist attempt to break the relationship between people – the functional unit of society – and sex.
Holms, another thing to consider is that an oocyte is no good at making a baby without sperm. So let’s shift to talk about the men, the ones who create the babies and put them inside women!
But iknklast, haven’t you heard? Men don’t produce sperm, TESTES do!
No YNNB, we mustn’t drop men from the conversation. Men are people with rights and dignity, dammit!