You know, if there’s a law saying that Xs are Ys when the reality is that Xs are not Ys then that’s the fault of the people who passed the law. It’s useless telling people who continue to know that Xs are not Ys that there’s an Act saying Xs who have a certificate are “legally Ys.” Laws aren’t magic. Laws should definitely not be used to coerce the populace into accepting (let alone repeating) a lie.
Stella Creasy please note.
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Stella’s a woman in the same way that a corporation is a person.
It’s true. A woman can have a penis. It’s consensual, in the correct circumstances, but it’s not her own.
I have to credit Dr. Steve Ceci of Cornell U for inspiring that comment on a section on Freud when I was a sophomore.
(I wasn’t at Cornell, nor was he, at the the that he made that joke.)
Stella is actually a woman, it’s just her beliefs that are on the fritz.
So it’s an example of a legal fiction. Which by definition isn’t factually true. In your anxiety to attack J. K. Rowling, you are making yourself look a fool, Dr Creasy.
I guess these people need to read up on Canute’s little demonstration to his courtiers of the limitations of human command over material reality. His story is often botched in the retelling, being held up as an example of the hubris of a monarch rather than flattering lackies being taught that the king’s powers are finite. Here we have lawmakers believing that if they say something, it becomes reality.
The stupidity of this with regards to the human sexes should be as obvious as it would be in case of abolishing gravity, or proclaiming the ability to transmute base metals into gold. “Oooh, you’ve got a certificate ! Then I’ll happily accept payment in this genuine, certified gold that you’ve made from lead. It still looks kinda dark grey, but I’ll take your word that it really is gold. Then I’ll toss you out my tenth floor window so you can fly off home. BYE NOW!”
Well, lookie here, you god damned Americans started this by legislating Pi = 3!
(PS, that’s an exclamation mark, not 3 factorial).
Then I’ll toss you out my tenth floor window so you can fly off home. BYE NOW!”
I didn’t know that YNnB was really Vladimir Putin.
We believe what we want to believe. Creasy wants to believe that a woman can have a penis, so she will do so. Reality has nothing to do with it.
@Rev David Brindley
#6 (not 2π)
Indiana attempted it, but π = 3.2.
Ooh I wish I’d thought of Canute.
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I was actually thinking more Terry Gilliam by way of Marty Feldman: https://www.openculture.com/2012/05/ithe_miracle_of_flighti_the_classic_early_animation_by_terry_gilliam.html
esp. at 2:10.
Seeing women play handmaidens to this nonsense evokes the same feelings as seeing scientists extol the glories of God.
Have a giggle, Mike Haubrich: by that same logic, there was a time of my life, over thirty years ago, when I was the proud bearer of two penises, with an occasional visiting third. Any mother of twin (or higher multiple) sons can boast the same (or more).