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@JaelynNajar [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [04]: @bsoenensvrt @ElsAmpe #woke #socialjustice en diens postmodernistische afbreuk van de realiteit dringt ook de disciplines van biologie en psychologie binnen en veroorzaakt een theoretische afsplitsing die erg lijkt op het creationisme van christelijk rechts in de vs, de gevolgen zijn al zichtbaar [URL redacted]
"To be honest, the biggest threat to biologists right now. as I see it. are trans activists. Back when evolution was under attach from Creationists and Intelligent Design proponents. academics were under no pressure to hold back our criticisms of them. This is because these anti-evolution movements were almost exclusively a product of conservative evangelicals. But now we have a big problem. because anti-evolutionism is back, but it's coming from the Left in the form of denial of gender or sex differences in humans. I can't tell you how many people I hear say "sex is a social construct". now. And what's frightening is that I am hearing this come from biologists too. There is a growing number of biologists, mostly younger graduate students, that put their activism before their biology. And as a biologist myself, I can't even comprehend how anyone can deny the realiry of biological sex and claim to be a biologist. It's insane. There are many articles out now that seem to be trying to disseminate the idea that biologists don't really know what we're talking about regarding sex. They obfuscate things. and say that it's all just so complex. What they're essentially doing is describing how complex the developmental processes leading to males, females. and intersex people are, and then claiming that this complexiry means we have no clue what sex really is. They fail to mention that the end products of development are unambiguously male or female over 99.9. of the time. I wouldn't be able to do my job as an evolutionary biologist if sex weren't a real biological phenomenon. Yet I could lose my job for stating these plain facts. Combating evolution denial wasn't a problem when it was coming from the Right, but I apparently can't defend my own field now because this denialism is now coming from the Left. Aren't I supposed to be a science educator? Isn't outreach supposed to be part of my job? Now I can't even defend my own field without fear of losing my job. Unbelievable.
And I must note that I am quite liberal and support trans people and their rights entirely. But if jettisoning the reality of biological sex is necessary for me to be a good ally, then I can never be a good ally. I can never subordinate truth to narrative, and we shouldn't have to."
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#BeliefTheismCreationism
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#BeliefTheismChristianityDenomEvangelicalism
Supplementary "So all language has world-building properties. Judith Butler argues, 'Genders can be neither true nor false, neither real nor apparent, neither original or derived' (Leitch, V. B., 2010). To call oneself 'woman' or 'man' is not simply a constative utterance, a linguistic marking of a natural congruence between body and gender; the so-called natural congruence of body and gender depends upon the repetition of the utterance, and the assumption of a neutral body, like a blank canvas, with its 'mute facticity.' Mute facticity is in this case 'sex,' a category often taken for granted as natural. However, this facticity is not itself mute, but is dependent on the muteness of the body in question, always already penetrated by countless lines of discourse, destroyed and 'fully transvaluated into a sublimated domain of values' (Leitch, V. B., 2010)." [blog] Leitch, V. B. (2010). 'The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism' (Second edition). W.W. Norton & Company. #IRLPhilosopherJudithButler #PleaNeutralityMuteFacticity
Supplementary "So all language has world-building properties. Judith Butler argues, 'Genders can be neither true nor false, neither real nor apparent, neither original or derived' (Leitch, V. B., 2010). To call oneself 'woman' or 'man' is not simply a constative utterance, a linguistic marking of a natural congruence between body and gender; the so-called natural congruence of body and gender depends upon the repetition of the utterance, and the assumption of a neutral body, like a blank canvas, with its 'mute facticity.' Mute facticity is in this case 'sex,' a category often taken for granted as natural. However, this facticity is not itself mute, but is dependent on the muteness of the body in question, always already penetrated by countless lines of discourse, destroyed and 'fully transvaluated into a sublimated domain of values' (Leitch, V. B., 2010)." [blog] Leitch, V. B. (2010). 'The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism' (Second edition). W.W. Norton & Company. #IRLPhilosopherJudithButler #PleaNeutralityMuteFacticity
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