how is anyone born with the intention of holding eggs?
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This knocks loose a memory for me. The instructor for the anthropology class that I took in college introduced the idea of natural categories versus cultural categories, and the example that he used was the category of things called "chair." It's a cultural category, which is defined as things that humans assign to the category somewhat arbitrarily.
A chair might be something for a human to sit on, like a wooden platform on four legs, with a vertical back for lumbar support. It may have armrests ("arms") or not. If it doesn't have a back, it's a stool. But stools can also have backs, like some barstools, if they have longer legs. But a director's chair has long legs, and a back, and is not a stool?! And then what of a papasan chair, with no legs, with the seat and backrest combined into one, curved platform?
If you sit on a stump around a campfire, that's kind of an improvised chair, defined more by the use than the shape. Then, put a collection of stumps around a table in a cabincore dining room, and now they are formally chairs.
In the other direction, the student union at my university is well-known for its colorful terrace chairs with a sunburst pattern on the back. It has a couple of 10-foot-tall versions for people to climb on (at their own risk!) for social media photo ops. Those are chairs, because of the shape, although they're not for a human to sit on.
And then let's not even get into lounge chairs, upon which you can be fully recumbent instead of sitting... Point is "biological female" is a natural category (sexually-reproducing organism bearing the larger of its species' gametes). It includes lizards and ferns, but not all of what we call women, because women is a cultural category. It's kind of arbitrary.
And yeah, intelligent people know this, and the "adult biological female" people are just trying to hide their bigotry. I just like to think out loud about it.
TIL the creator of Father Ted is a bigot. Fuckin bummer. Why can’t these assholes keep their shitty opinions to themselves?
He wrote an otherwise funny episode of the IT crowd, but the B plot involved violence against a trans woman. When he was criticized for it, the universe presented him with a choice:
- reflect on one cheap joke, or
- make it his whole identity
this ties into a claim ContraPoints makes about the reasons people become conspiracy theorists, around 2 hours 26 minutes into her CONSPIRACY video she talks about "revenged humiliation" as a psychological reason - basically there are a lot of instances of people who became conspiracy theorists after an instance of intense public humiliation (she cites the guy who came up with the "space reptilians run the government", Naomi Wolf the ex-feminist turned Steve Bannon co-host and anti-vaxxer, and Candace Owens the ex-anti-racist activist turned famed conservative and alt-right activist.
Just interesting to see another clear example out in the wild.
I suspect it's possible JK Rowling's descent into her anti-trans obsession arguably was fueled by humiliation (the first time she got flak was in 2018 when she liked a transphobic tweet which she claims the like was a mistake, a slip of the finger when she was trying to screenshot the tweet for later; she wrote and published her essay defending her transphobia a few days after Daniel Radcliffe publicly decried JK's transphobia and affirmed trans identity in June 2020).
I prefer the enemies out themselves.
I prefer they not exist, but I guess we can't have everything we want.
these are connected ideas, harder to non-exist a Nazi when they're not open about being a Nazi
Born with the intention of holding eggs? Do they not know what the word intention means?
$20 says it implies "intended by god".
These asshats tend to try and hide their religious bias, but it comes out like this every now and then, and they often don't realize.
If god intended for women to hold eggs, but many don't have the capability, did he fuck up?
If there's a God, why is he mad 12 year old boys masturbate? He didn't see that being an outcome when he made human males full of sex wanting hormones able and desiring daily sex? How shitty is he at his job?
honestly the idea of god being real but just.. kinda not being very good at what he does.. almost makes more sense than either him being real and perfect or not existing at all
like up until the abrahamic religions got it in their heads that god is perfect, it was quite standard for religions to 1) see their gods as imperfect and probably kind of being mercurial assholes who you moreso try to appease than worship, and 2) not be overly worried with the existence of other religions and whether their theologies are compatible
You only think that because you still buy into some childhood training that God is real, it's really clear this isn't so by a simple collection of evidence. As a former high ranking Christian mystic I can tell you, you can replace God and Jesus with rocks and it wouldn't make a difference, a lot of my training turned out to be hypnotizing people. Which the church incidentally forbid participating in secular hypnotizing of any kind, training or being subject to. But also liminal state group think type of stuff. It's a bummer they turned a perfectly good self and group growth tool and all they do with it is rip off desperate people for money. What a stupid goal....
lol dude both my parents have been atheists their entire lives, i pretty much learned of the existence of religion at like.. 14?
IDK dude, god not existing at all still makes the most sense to me.
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Well, if it’s a biological being and it identifies itself as woman, I think it is a woman? That said, I have never met a non-biological woman, maybe some minerals that haven’t been discovered yet have genders?
I got an extension cord that is non-biological and has a female end, does that count?
I'm reasonably sure it's also got a male end though.
Can the female end of your extension cord hold eggs?
Yes, but it wasn't intended to, I think.
In German, most minerals have a gender.
Wait, most? I'm pretty sure all nouns are gendered in German.
Depends if you count „Das“ (neutral) as a gender.
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I didn't know it was possible for everyone to simply intend for their body to engage or not engage in such a bodily function. Interesting. /s
Yeah, honestly, screw the meme reply, what the absolute holy hell is "the intention of holding eggs" in your body?
I mean, pretty sure that covers a whole bunch of trans women and decidedly not a whole bunch of cis women, but that's besides the point. What did she mean?
I fear there is a whole pseudoscientific terfy rabbit hole behind this and I don't want to fall down that hole, but I kinda need to know if it's a slip of the tongue or what.
It's just regular misogyny this time, in that they only see "real" women as capable of giving birth, and then tried to cover up medical problems that would get in the way of that with the word "intention".
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I intentionally ate an egg sandwich this morning, guess I’m a woman now
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To me, it seems like she was going to only say "capability of holding eggs," then thought about it and actually realized it would exclude some cis women, so she added "intention" as if it meant "would usually be capable of" but just used a bad word to imply that. I could be reading into it a bit much though.
Of course, that wouldn't work either, since that could then include or exclude people with various assortments of chromosomes in which it's undetermined as to if they would or would not typically have eggs, and would also just open a whole meta argument about how early in the developmental process there would or wouldn't be "intention" for that to happen, which is entirely subjective.
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Huh, then menopause it's the moment when a cis woman turns into a cis man? No wonder they are super upset about the whole thing. The more you know, the full cycle of manhood is more complex than you know.
I just intentionally ate 2 more eggs then normal today. What's going to happen to me?!1 am i going to get gregnat
I'm sorry you found out this way. Prepare your preganante fund
grEGGnat
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"Behold! I've brought you a [wo]man." -Diogenes
Modern day Diogenese over here
Went to shop today to buy egg specifically til I am woman amazing
Behold, a woman
The US seems to have an eggsistential crisis.
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