२२ सप्टेंबर, २०२२

Team Josh Hawley is getting over-aggressive about restricting the number of genders.

४४ टिप्पण्या:

Joe Smith म्हणाले...

Hawley has been on a tear lately. He ripped into the Archivist candidate the other day.

He comes off as a bit of a prick if he's not on 'your side.'

But he is undeniably very smart...

RideSpaceMountain म्हणाले...

It's awful brave of Savage to have the age he was molested at as his avatar.

tim maguire म्हणाले...

Oops. A perfect own-goal for twitter, which lives and dies on the "Gotcha!"

RideSpaceMountain म्हणाले...

Infinite genders to rule them all
Only freaks create them
Vanderbilt will slice them up
And the democrats will bind them

Temujin म्हणाले...

It seems like the political teams these days- from the local people on up to the White House and the President's team- are as lame a crop of employees as we see all around us in every other business today. In other words, the 'comm's' people at the White House are far more degreed than the person pulling fries out of the basket at McDonald's, but they have the same short attention to detail, maybe even less, and the same lack of grammatical sense in what they end up presenting.

The same mistakes seen by any random young person on social media are found on Government websites, in releases from the White House, and from various Senators and Representatives.

Finding quality help these days is tricky. This mistake on Sen. Hawley's mailer is not something the Senator would have seen or been expected to edit for approval. That's why you hire staff. But it's these small things- the Little Murders- that we see everyday in our society that gives us a series of clues as to which direction our society is going.

It's not up.

Mike Petrik म्हणाले...

I'm not sure I understand the issue. Many languages do not include multiple genders.
Seriously, it's just a silly fumble that will attract pointless cheap shots.

Paddy O म्हणाले...

If gender is always on a spectrum, and flexible in expression based on a person's own preference, wouldn't that mean there's only one gender?

mccullough म्हणाले...

This issue engenders controversy.

Inga म्हणाले...

So women are just men with a few improvements?

Jeff Vader म्हणाले...

Dan savage has been one of the worst people in the world since the 90s, that some impressive staying power

n.n म्हणाले...

Two sexes: male and female. Two sex-correlated genders: masculine and feminine, respectively. And a narrow transgender spectrum in an extraction of rainbows.

n.n म्हणाले...

The democratic/dictatorial duality is still a binary model.

Lilly, a dog म्हणाले...

Now that's just silly. I think we can all agree there are three: Male, Female, and Canadian Shop Teacher.

Wa St Blogger म्हणाले...

But he is undeniably very smart...

That does not matter, there is no (D) after his name.

Howard म्हणाले...

Gender fluids makes for slippery slopes and rabbit holes

tim maguire म्हणाले...

Inga said...So women are just men with a few improvements?

Check your bible--yes. Adam was a first draft, Eve the final product.

Inga म्हणाले...

‘Check your bible--yes. Adam was a first draft, Eve the final product.”

Yes, we all know that Bible story. God must’ve saw a serious flaw in man to Adam’s rib and create woman. Adam would’ve had to clone himself to populate the world. Or God could’ve created millions of Adams cavorting gayly in Gardens of Eden all over the entire world.



Two-eyed Jack म्हणाले...

One is as likely as fifty-three.

Inga म्हणाले...

So women are the long lost property of men who are still pissed off that they don’t have 25 ribs.

BUMBLE BEE म्हणाले...

Like the shop teacher in Ontario? How is that outfit appropriate?

Inga म्हणाले...

“To grab Adam’s rib”…

CJinPA म्हणाले...

Funny slip-up. But it begs the question: If there can be endless genders, why can't there just be one? Everything is possible when everything is considered a "social construct."

Achilles म्हणाले...

Hawley is very invested in the Government defining the number and the associations of the Genders.

Right Wing fascists have all sorts of things they want the government to define.

They just get really mad when the left defines something differently and is better at using the Government to push their bullshit than they are.

Michael K म्हणाले...

Staff error that will draw lots of fun for idiots like Inga and Howard. Good help is hard to find these days.

PM म्हणाले...

Few things are funnier than putting your foot through the soapbox.

Mike म्हणाले...

Ah well I'm sure Josh can count to two--and no more. I'm good with that.

Ann Althouse म्हणाले...

It's surprising how many people don't see the problem!!!

I won't name names here, but come one. Team Josh said there can only be *one* gender. Which one is that? Female?

Ann Althouse म्हणाले...

I mean, come on....

Jupiter म्हणाले...

It would certainly simplify things.

Joe Smith म्हणाले...

'So women are just men with a few improvements?'

Only a liberal would consider slower and weaker an 'improvement.'

Achilles म्हणाले...

CJinPA said...

Funny slip-up. But it begs the question: If there can be endless genders, why can't there just be one? Everything is possible when everything is considered a "social construct."

Everything is a "social construct" when you are discussing things like this.

At a fundamental level society is about forming a framework for our interactions with each other.

As long as we are just hashing this out amongst ourselves this is a fluid discussion and there is no reason to get all worked up.

The problem is the crazy people on both sides want the government to smash everyone who disagrees with them. And they are going to make sure everyone gets smashed.

And the people on the right just cannot seem to figure out how their actions serve the left in the long run.

Mike (MJB Wolf) म्हणाले...

It's like on Pawn Stars when they make a lowball first offer: "Best I can do is one gender."

Seller: "But on the internet it says there's 57 genders."

Chumley: "And a eunuch!"

Rick: "Look maybe if we shine it up we can get you two genders. That's the best you can expect."

Seller: "Ah. OK. Crap. Just give me the two then."

Mike (MJB Wolf) म्हणाले...

As a guy with an English degree it pains me to see the traditional definition of gender absolutely destroyed by the Woke. To his credit old G Gordon Liddy used to rail against the g-word way back in the '90s, when it started being substituted by Progressives in place of the word "sex." Because that was plain speech, which Progressives can never abide. There are two sexes: male and female. Everything else is an aberration and we have special words for exceptions from the rule. But the rule remains: two sexes.

To aid in clear communication to our fellow humans we assign a gender to words sometimes, actor and actress for example. But American English had pretty much gone to non-gendered terms long before the Woke language police arrived. Other languages are more liberal in their gendering, like Spanish where almost every word has a feminine and masculine version. And there are common words in English that we called gender terms: he, his, hers, etc.

Funny how the "Celebrate Diversity!" crowd really does not like to acknowledge differences between male and female people? It's more than adding "fe" to a word, there are SIGNIFICANT differences between the sexes, and that's a wonderful thing.

Tina Trent म्हणाले...

Lilly wins.

Paddy O म्हणाले...

raises the question

Lurker21 म्हणाले...
ही टिप्पणी लेखकाना हलविली आहे.
Pauligon59 म्हणाले...

To some extent, gender is a social construct - consider the various languagees of the world where gender is "built-in". I always had difficulty with French because of its assignment of gender to everything. Use the wrong gender for an article and you get treated like a dummy. I could never understand why some things were feminine and why others were masculine.

In English, we don't assign a gender to everything. "The", "a", etc. are genderless or neuter. We usually only use gender terms (he, she, etc.) when referring to people or things that we have anthormorphized.

Still, the survey made a stupid mistake - or maybe it was sabotaged by a staffer?

n.n म्हणाले...

Only a liberal would consider slower and weaker an 'improvement.'

To be fair, unlike a loaf of bread, an apple pie, or a figgy pudding, a baby needs to be fully baked under narrow and nurturing conditions. A mother is a lady is a woman with a womb and knows how to use it. That said, life is not so short nor confining that women and men of equal rights and complementary Nature/nature are not productive in physical and mental capacity.

CJinPA म्हणाले...

Achilles said...

The problem is the crazy people on both sides want the government to smash everyone who disagrees with them. And they are going to make sure everyone gets smashed. And the people on the right just cannot seem to figure out how their actions serve the left in the long run.

Except the topic here was public education: What should government schools teach children? This is one of those times when the government will indeed pick a side.

n.n म्हणाले...

One sex-correlated gender: masculine for man. One sex-correlated gender: feminine for woman. Equitable by Her choice, and equal in rights by our choice. #HateLovesAbortion

One transgender spectrum at the penumbras of the human condition.

Heywood Rice म्हणाले...

It's awful brave of Savage to have the age he was molested at as his avatar. - Ride Space Mountain

How funny.

Michael K म्हणाले...


Blogger Ann Althouse said...

It's surprising how many people don't see the problem!!!

I won't name names here, but come one. Team Josh said there can only be *one* gender. Which one is that? Female?


Our new brilliant Supreme Court Justice seems to agree with Hawley's staffer. Can't define "woman" so I guess that leaves men as the only gender.

Saint Croix म्हणाले...

ha ha ha

oops

I forgot one

Iman म्हणाले...

Silly Savage!