Peanut Gallery Thread

[Armoured]

Since the only people who tweet as much as Trump are teenage girls, that's a bit of a false equivalency. Barry blamed Dubya all of the time in his teleprompter speeches and TV interviews.

For instance?

 

[FreeinChrist]

I'm willing to bet Dolph isn't a climate change denier either.

I can't find anything about Dolph being a climate denier - or actually working at a job involving science, though he may have. Nothing against Dolph having a great education but he got right into acting.

Bill Nye, however, did develope a hydraulic pressure resonance suppressor used in 747s still and helped design the sundial used for the Mars Rover missions. He is actively engaged in learning.

 

[DaisyDay]

He is actively engaged in learning.

And teaching.

 

[LinguaIgnota]

Biological sex is determined by your chromosomes, gender is a social construct. It's really not that hard to understand.

 

[Abraxos]

Biological sex is determined by your chromosomes, gender is a social construct. It's really not that hard to understand.

 

[Armoured]

Keep saying it. Maybe it will become true.

 

[Rion]

Biological sex is determined by your chromosomes, gender is a social construct. It's really not that hard to understand.

First off, it says gender, LIKE SEX, is on a spectrum. Secondly, the guy who first came up with separating gender and sex was a real piece of work. Look up John Money and David Reimer.

 

[LinguaIgnota]

First off, it says gender, LIKE SEX, is on a spectrum. Secondly, the guy who first came up with separating gender and sex was a real piece of work. Look up John Money and David Reimer.

I'm not exactly a big fan of Bill Nye. I understand that he conveys basic scientific concepts to children and youngsters, for which I commend him. But from what I have seen, and that might be a very inaccurate and unfair evaluation, he lacks in-depth knowledge. If the quotes attributed to him in the image is correct, I believe that his limited insight might have caused him to express himself in an ambiguous or unclear manner. The notion, however, that someone should have paid him off to state a certain viewpoint is laughable.

The distinction between sex and gender is widely accepted, by the way. And, at least at the University of Copenhagen, it is taught to psychology students during the first semester. It doesn't matter who came up with the concept as long as it is sufficiently descriptive of a phenomenon within the human sphere of experiences. I agree with Bill Nye that gender is on a spectrum. You can observe that for yourself in both biological males and biological females who have taken on traits that are more or less "feminine" or "masculine".

 

[FreeinChrist]

Actually, it can be more complicated that that.

I actually had a client who was biologically male and expressed as female from birth. The penis did not develop, nor did the testes develop as they should have. She appeared female at birth but eventually found that she wasn't. She may have decided at a later date to have surgery.

There are more variations out there. It is a private thing though so most folks do not know about them all.

 

[Rion]

Actually, it can be more complicated that that.

I actually had a client who was biologically male and expressed as female from birth. The penis did not develop, nor did the testes develop as they should have. She appeared female at birth but eventually found that she wasn't. She may have decided at a later date to have surgery.

There are more variations out there. It is a private thing though so most folks do not know about them all.

There are three. Male, female, and intersex, with the third being a tiny fraction of the population. Asexual, gender - fluid and the rest of that is not real, however.

 

[FreeinChrist]

I agree that some of it is not real, but there are more involved issues besides those.

 

[GoldenBoy89]

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Actually, we don't because conservatives invented that term.

 

[Rion]

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Oh, boy. Choose your own response:

• Did she collapse? Are they about to toss her into the back of a van?
• How many of them are conservatives or Republicans? Do you think that they would appreciate being lunped in with Hillary?
• This is basically reducing these women to their gender. I am sure that thought thrills many of them.
• I hope that the first woman president is a Republican or Libertarian, just because it will drive third wave feminists into a frenzy.

 

[Abraxos]

Actually, it can be more complicated that that.

I actually had a client who was biologically male and expressed as female from birth. The penis did not develop, nor did the testes develop as they should have. She appeared female at birth but eventually found that she wasn't. She may have decided at a later date to have surgery.

There are more variations out there. It is a private thing though so most folks do not know about them all.

As Rion pointed out there are biological abnormalities that prevent them from being a fully realized male or female scientifically speaking. I get that this is a sensitive topic for some and I think it is quite commendable for many to care for the well-being of those that are going through some identity crisis; but it's more to do with psychological analysis' within social constructs than science.

 

[Rion]

Anyone else notice that it is always the side not in power that cares about debt?

 

[DaisyDay]

Anyone else notice that it is always the side not in power that cares about debt?

Sure, and debt is not necessarily a bad thing, but it was the part about filling it with swamp that I liked.

 

[Rion]

That simply is not true. All of history has been a struggle between the statists and the individualists.

And prior to that it was not uncommon for the President to not go. Since the media has abandoned all pretense of integrity, I am fine with a return to the old ways.

 

[FanthatSpark]

That simply is not true. All of history has been a struggle between the statists and the individualists.

Subject dependent.

 

[stamperben]

And prior to that it was not uncommon for the President to not go. Since the media has abandoned all pretense of integrity, I am fine with a return to the old ways.

On that...
The White House correspondents' dinner is elitist. Why rush to defend it?

It is one of the worst traditions a moneyed, out-of-touch Washington media class ever concocted. It deserves a deathblow – even if delivered by Trump​

 

[Rion]

Pretty sure that it is expected of the Royals to do so. A more comparative example would be Obama, Both Bushes, and Clinton. Of course, that ruins the narrative.