I don't retreat from calling the trans fad my enemies. They are nothing else. Their goal of replacing biological sex with jenner idennidy is abhorrent. When they say things like "men can bear children" I just think they're insane. And they are as intensely intolerant in their orthodoxy as MAGA.
I don't retreat from calling the trans fad my enemies. They are nothing else. Their goal of replacing biological sex with jenner idennidy is abhorrent. When they say things like "men can bear children" I just think they're insane. And they are as intensely intolerant in their orthodoxy as MAGA.
I don't want to spar anymore with you on our differences of opinion in finding common ground. When I read something like Julia opened with, that sex is not binary, it's like when I read Thomas Kuhn on scientific discovery and snapped the book shut. Life is too short and I have too little of it left to waste another millisecond on lunacy, or on fanatics of any stripe. I feel about science like some faith people feel about their god and I am ashamed that so many scientists have bought into gender ideology.
I admire your writing and I have stayed on your substack even as I have dropped most others I was on. But we are never going to agree on this. I feel no obligation to find common ground with fools, and I think you are wasting your fine mind and your eloquence with people liek Julia.
Though I find it refreshing when you just flatly deny something one of these people says.
"I don't want to spar anymore with you on our differences of opinion in finding common ground."
Yep, I've long since stopped expecting to change your mind on this particular point. But while you (occasionally with good reason) accuse me of engaging with people for too long, I think you're far too quick to disengage.
If you take every incorrect or inaccurate statement as an immediate sign to dismiss people as idiots, you risk placing yourself in an echo chamber every bit as tight as the people you criticise. And you waste an opportunity to understand how this mind virus works and stop it.
The fact that trans ideology (and MAGA for that matter) have gotten so far is proof of the painful truth that simply being correct isn't enough.
So I'd much rather carefully refute some claim that the people who have been indoctrinated by this nonsense make, citing the evidence, and hopefully express myself in a way that they can hear and think more deeply about later, than call them idiots, give them one more excuse to claim that everybody who disagrees with them is a "meany" and encourage them to shut their eyes and ears that bit more tightly to the truth.
I don't retreat from calling the trans fad my enemies. They are nothing else. Their goal of replacing biological sex with jenner idennidy is abhorrent. When they say things like "men can bear children" I just think they're insane. And they are as intensely intolerant in their orthodoxy as MAGA.
I don't want to spar anymore with you on our differences of opinion in finding common ground. When I read something like Julia opened with, that sex is not binary, it's like when I read Thomas Kuhn on scientific discovery and snapped the book shut. Life is too short and I have too little of it left to waste another millisecond on lunacy, or on fanatics of any stripe. I feel about science like some faith people feel about their god and I am ashamed that so many scientists have bought into gender ideology.
I admire your writing and I have stayed on your substack even as I have dropped most others I was on. But we are never going to agree on this. I feel no obligation to find common ground with fools, and I think you are wasting your fine mind and your eloquence with people liek Julia.
Though I find it refreshing when you just flatly deny something one of these people says.
"I don't want to spar anymore with you on our differences of opinion in finding common ground."
Yep, I've long since stopped expecting to change your mind on this particular point. But while you (occasionally with good reason) accuse me of engaging with people for too long, I think you're far too quick to disengage.
If you take every incorrect or inaccurate statement as an immediate sign to dismiss people as idiots, you risk placing yourself in an echo chamber every bit as tight as the people you criticise. And you waste an opportunity to understand how this mind virus works and stop it.
The fact that trans ideology (and MAGA for that matter) have gotten so far is proof of the painful truth that simply being correct isn't enough.
So I'd much rather carefully refute some claim that the people who have been indoctrinated by this nonsense make, citing the evidence, and hopefully express myself in a way that they can hear and think more deeply about later, than call them idiots, give them one more excuse to claim that everybody who disagrees with them is a "meany" and encourage them to shut their eyes and ears that bit more tightly to the truth.