One gender to rule them all. https://t.co/NtPzq0hR9I
— Dan Savage (@fakedansavage) September 22, 2022
September 22, 2022
Team Josh Hawley is getting over-aggressive about restricting the number of genders.
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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...
It's awful brave of Savage to have the age he was molested at as his avatar.
Oops. A perfect own-goal for twitter, which lives and dies on the "Gotcha!"
Infinite genders to rule them all
Only freaks create them
Vanderbilt will slice them up
And the democrats will bind them
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.
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.
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?
This issue engenders controversy.
So women are just men with a few improvements?
Dan savage has been one of the worst people in the world since the 90s, that some impressive staying power
Two sexes: male and female. Two sex-correlated genders: masculine and feminine, respectively. And a narrow transgender spectrum in an extraction of rainbows.
The democratic/dictatorial duality is still a binary model.
Now that's just silly. I think we can all agree there are three: Male, Female, and Canadian Shop Teacher.
But he is undeniably very smart...
That does not matter, there is no (D) after his name.
Gender fluids makes for slippery slopes and rabbit holes
Inga said...So women are just men with a few improvements?
Check your bible--yes. Adam was a first draft, Eve the final product.
‘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.
One is as likely as fifty-three.
So women are the long lost property of men who are still pissed off that they don’t have 25 ribs.
Like the shop teacher in Ontario? How is that outfit appropriate?
“To grab Adam’s rib”…
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."
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.
Staff error that will draw lots of fun for idiots like Inga and Howard. Good help is hard to find these days.
Few things are funnier than putting your foot through the soapbox.
Ah well I'm sure Josh can count to two--and no more. I'm good with that.
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?
I mean, come on....
It would certainly simplify things.
'So women are just men with a few improvements?'
Only a liberal would consider slower and weaker an 'improvement.'
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.
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."
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.
Lilly wins.
raises the question
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?
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.
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.
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.
It's awful brave of Savage to have the age he was molested at as his avatar. - Ride Space Mountain
How funny.
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.
ha ha ha
oops
I forgot one
Silly Savage!
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