Ok then let’s see you pee standing up without soaking your shoes.
If sexual dimorphism is an observational imposition of Christian colonialism then how have people managed to reproduce all this time? How have animals known how to reproduce all this time? How have genitalia been different all this time? What are ovaries and what are they for? Why don’t babies emerge from men? Why can’t gay couples make babies without outside assistance?
Also why Christian colonialism but not Islamic colonialism? Was the Iberian peninsula packed full of people born via a miracle?
So many questions.
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In a pair of fantasy books (The Kingkiller Chronicle) there’s a nation of people who don’t know how procreation works. The protagonist tries to explain it to one of these people to no avail. I always thought this was completely bonkers and implausible, but … We’re somehow living it.
In the Clan of the Cave Bear, the tribes didn’t know how procreation worked, but they did know about sex and they did know the difference between male and female. I didn’t find that at all impossible, though I do suspect that even the earliest tribes would be able to see the correlation between sexual activity and childbirth. They wouldn’t understand all of the aspects we now do, like the phases of gestation/childbirth; they didn’t know all that at the time of Charles Darwin. But I suspect they did know how to proceed if they wanted children.
From the Tweet (or whatever they’re called this week),
Judith Butler should spend a week in the woods, ideally here in Iowa in December, without any acoutrements of those “problematic” fruits of “sites of power”, and see if she changes her mind about objective reality.
Well, even westerners took a lot of time working out the specifics of procreation – I recall the Ancient Greeks had linked it to sexual intercourse, but mistakenly thought that the man was depositing an entire, but tiny human into the woman, and that she served merely as an incubator, rather than a genetic parent also. I don’t know how much longer it took to work out eggs and sperm and fertile periods of menstrual cycles. But if the Ancient Greeks had the link between babies being born (always from women and girls) and sex, then I fully expect that other ancient peoples elsewhere in the world had grasped that too.