2. Translation: You can be male in body, male in law, untouched by surgery or hormones – and still legally female. Why? Because you said so. pic.twitter.com/0hZoixQbjk
7. A definition of “woman” that only includes women is now discriminatory. If your category excludes men, your category is illegal. That’s where we are. pic.twitter.com/gMVjrJo1k0
Number 6, the one about smell – does that apply to smells in general? If I don’t like the smell of perfume does that make me a man? If I don’t like the smell of cigarette smoke (I detest it) does that make me chewing gum? But I hate chewing gum too, so now what? If I don’t love the smell of a heron rookery (check one out sometime) does that mean I’m an armadillo? I’m not seeing the train of causality here.
I will never, ever, ever understand how lawyers and legislators can convince themselves that all this is true and good.
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6 responses to “Batshit is sane in comparison”
Starskeptic
You think you’ve got problems?
I just now learned that secondary sex characteristics apparently include ‘what things smell like’!
Francis Boyle
Struth! You’re not Australian, male or female, if you can’t cope with the stench of a dunny.
twiliter
The widest possible interpretation (i.e. definition) of woman is Adult Human Female. That covers over half the human population. Just because some idiots think that there are some males that fit the description doesn’t render any facts. The interpretation doesn’t exclude “transgender women” because “transgender women” are not Adult Human Females by definition, they are “transgender women” which is a particular type of male, in a subcategory of males, not females. If their “interpretation” includes males, then their “interpretation” is faulty, again, by definition. How absurd.
Bjarte Foshaug
twiliter
If their “interpretation” includes males, then their “interpretation” is faulty, again, by definition.
And, as I keep saying, now it no longer includes half the world’s population. If you define males who think / feel / identify / “present” in ways best left unspecified in, you define any biological female who fails to think / feel / identify / “present” in the ways required out. How many biological females still count as “women” by that standard? To answer that question would require specifying the best left unspecified parts, so don’t expect an answer any time soon. Pretty sure it’s less than half the world’s population, though. A lot less!
twiliter
You’re right Bjarte, it’s a different kind of mapping.
Mike Haubrich
“Shrodinger’s Rapist” becomes perfectly safe once declaring to be female.
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6 responses to “Batshit is sane in comparison”
You think you’ve got problems?
I just now learned that secondary sex characteristics apparently include ‘what things smell like’!
Struth! You’re not Australian, male or female, if you can’t cope with the stench of a dunny.
The widest possible interpretation (i.e. definition) of woman is Adult Human Female. That covers over half the human population. Just because some idiots think that there are some males that fit the description doesn’t render any facts. The interpretation doesn’t exclude “transgender women” because “transgender women” are not Adult Human Females by definition, they are “transgender women” which is a particular type of male, in a subcategory of males, not females. If their “interpretation” includes males, then their “interpretation” is faulty, again, by definition. How absurd.
twiliter
And, as I keep saying, now it no longer includes half the world’s population. If you define males who think / feel / identify / “present” in ways best left unspecified in, you define any biological female who fails to think / feel / identify / “present” in the ways required out. How many biological females still count as “women” by that standard? To answer that question would require specifying the best left unspecified parts, so don’t expect an answer any time soon. Pretty sure it’s less than half the world’s population, though. A lot less!
You’re right Bjarte, it’s a different kind of mapping.
“Shrodinger’s Rapist” becomes perfectly safe once declaring to be female.