Early in the rise of trans I politely did not resist the gender is a social construct claim. I've done quite a few foolish things in my long life and that is one of them. That should have been nipped in the bud.
As in the TZ episode, it seemed harmless enough initially. A Christian friend once said to me, the Bible starts with "In the beg…
Early in the rise of trans I politely did not resist the gender is a social construct claim. I've done quite a few foolish things in my long life and that is one of them. That should have been nipped in the bud.
As in the TZ episode, it seemed harmless enough initially. A Christian friend once said to me, the Bible starts with "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." Once you accept that you are ready to accept everything else that's in it.
"As in the TZ episode, it seemed harmless enough initially."
This is the battle for me. Society has to be able to change and adapt. We have to be able to accept ideas that seem new and strange and even a little uncomfortable. This ability has allowed society to evolve in enormously positive ways, but there's always the fear of the slippery slope. So we need mechanisms that allow is to say, "Okay, that's far enough. Now we're crossing over into something dangerous."
There are many ways to define that line, but the clearest is objective reality. All religious thinking, whether traditional religions or this religion of gender, falls foul of that line. People should be able to believe what they want. But their ideas can't be allowed to govern how society works.
Early in the rise of trans I politely did not resist the gender is a social construct claim. I've done quite a few foolish things in my long life and that is one of them. That should have been nipped in the bud.
As in the TZ episode, it seemed harmless enough initially. A Christian friend once said to me, the Bible starts with "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." Once you accept that you are ready to accept everything else that's in it.
"As in the TZ episode, it seemed harmless enough initially."
This is the battle for me. Society has to be able to change and adapt. We have to be able to accept ideas that seem new and strange and even a little uncomfortable. This ability has allowed society to evolve in enormously positive ways, but there's always the fear of the slippery slope. So we need mechanisms that allow is to say, "Okay, that's far enough. Now we're crossing over into something dangerous."
There are many ways to define that line, but the clearest is objective reality. All religious thinking, whether traditional religions or this religion of gender, falls foul of that line. People should be able to believe what they want. But their ideas can't be allowed to govern how society works.
Bill Maher has observed that this started with us being too tolerant of the nutty beliefs of fundamentalist religion.