Wait till the rednecks figure this out and use it to their benefit. “Excuse me Mr Game Warden, I shot it, because I didn’t know how that antlered deer identified”.
Seriously? Please don’t tell me you believe that first paragraph and are just messing around. I have always had more respect for you than that paragraph would allow going forward.There’s a kernel of sense in this in that we have to avoid assuming that things that are considered traits of a gender now necessarily were throughout human history.
Of course, refusing to identify the biological gender of a skeleton does absolutely no good, and actually does a lot of harm with regard to finding out what gender meant to that population group.
Congratulations, your transition to liberal nutjob is now complete.There’s a kernel of sense in this in that we have to avoid assuming that things that are considered traits of a gender now necessarily were throughout human history.
So one day when they open a casket of a small male wearing a dress they could possibly tell he was a cabinet maker in his prime?I think you all are reading something in to what I wrote that I didn’t write. I mean that how women and men have interacted, the social positions they’ve held, their day to day lives and expectations are not consistent through recorded history, let alone prehistory.
edit: to give an example, let’s say a 1800 anthropologist found a skeleton in what looked like religious garb. If the skeleton is female they may assume that since in 1800 no women are religious leaders, it can’t be that. But we can’t project our biases on anthropology or we can miss things.
That is why I’m being buried with a plaque saying “male / pronouns he and him.” I don’t want any controversy when they dig me up a thousand years from now.So one day when they open a casket of a small male wearing a dress they could possibly tell he was a cabinet maker in his prime?
And I made exactly that point in the second paragraph of my original post.Has nothing to do with them refusing to identify the biological gender of the remains. It’s a woman wearing whatever they have on. You are bringing up a point about culture and the fact that current biases could lead to incorrect conclusions. That’s fine, but doesn’t have anything to do with scientific identification of human remains.
You mean it’s not natural? Not science? I’m not going to go to Yellowstone and see a male grizzly nursing cubs? Not going to see a female moose Impregnate another female moose?? 😂😂Or we could just admit reality and that "identify with a gender" makes no rational sense and should go back on the DSM-V where it belongs.
We don't help delusional people by going along with their delusions.
It's not love to let people hurt themselves.
Or we could just admit reality and that "identify with a gender" makes no rational sense and should go back on the DSM-V where it belongs.
We don't help delusional people by going along with their delusions.
It's not love to let people hurt themselves.
I agree that appears to nature like that are examples of people who have badly lost the plot in an argument about what humans should and shouldn’t be allowed to do.There is no better example of special pleading than seeing "committed gay relationships" in nature. To paraphrase a well-known saying animals were made to do two things. Kill and make babies. To deny either of them to themselves is by definition unnatural. We don't say an animal which refuses to eat is "just trying to find themselves".
Well they were killing themselves an awful lot more when we tried to force them to follow a certain gender, so I’m not sure that’s “love” either.
Actually, when the gay stuff started coming out the suicide rate shot up. It’s copy cat syndrome. Like with anything else, it becomes popular and others jump on the bandwagon. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/66/wr/mm6630a6.htmWell they were killing themselves an awful lot more when we tried to force them to follow a certain gender, so I’m not sure that’s “love” either.
Oh, so human beings are not the same as animals?I agree that appears to nature like that are examples of people who have badly lost the plot in an argument about what humans should and shouldn’t be allowed to do.