08 Apr 22
The SCOTUS nominee got creamed by Republicans when she answered the question "what is a woman" with...
"I'm not a biologist."
GOP senator: "The fact that you can't give me a straight answer about something this fundamental underscores the dangers of progressive education."
Ok, flash foward to today
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What is a woman?
Senator Thom Thillis (R): "My wife"
Senator Lindsey Graham (R): "The birds and bees stuff - it's been awhile, but I think I remember the general gist of the differences."
Senator Josh Hawley (R): "I mean a woman has a vagina right?"
Senator Blackburn (R): "Two X chromosomes" (which ignores that virtually no one is karyotyped prior to gender assignment)
Senator Ted Cruz (R) (denying he'd recently consulted a dictionary): "Adult female human"
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So, given all these wide ranging answers from the same folks who thought it was very simple and silly to consult biology, it's not an easy obvious question. What do y'all think? Anatomical features? Genetics? That seems unnecessary to me. Have you ever been karyotyped to establish the number of X chromosomes you have? Many people don't know they are XXY, for example.
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08 Apr 22
@wildgrass saidAn older, “Sugar and spice and all things nice”.🤔
The SCOTUS nominee got creamed by Republicans when she answered the question "what is a woman" with...
"I'm not a biologist."
GOP senator: "The fact that you can't give me a straight answer about something this fundamental underscores the dangers of progressive education."
Ok, flash foward to today
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What is a wom ...[text shortened]... to establish the number of X chromosomes you have? Many people don't know they are XXY, for example.
@wildgrass saidRather a stupid question under normal circumstances but we live in confusing times and some people think you can just make it up.
The SCOTUS nominee got creamed by Republicans when she answered the question "what is a woman" with...
"I'm not a biologist."
GOP senator: "The fact that you can't give me a straight answer about something this fundamental underscores the dangers of progressive education."
Ok, flash foward to today
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What is a wom ...[text shortened]... to establish the number of X chromosomes you have? Many people don't know they are XXY, for example.
Like, oh, I am a woman now, oops, I mean man, sorry, changed my mind again, seriously you cannot just make this stuff up.
We had a foster kid stop with us that told us his sibling was not, nor had for some time, talking to him/her because he forgot what pronoun he/she was using that day,
The world has gone nuts, simple.
08 Apr 22
@great-big-stees saidThis underscores the real issue at hand. What a woman is biologically is not the same thing as what a woman is culturally.
An older, “Sugar and spice and all things nice”.🤔
I think this is what Ms. Brown Jackson meant to say but was thrown off by being a woman being asked to define a what a woman is.
08 Apr 22
@jimmac saidRight. But among those criticizing the SCOTUS nominee for deferring to a biologist (under these confusing times), none of them gave the same answer.
Rather a stupid question under normal circumstances but we live in confusing times and some people think you can just make it up.
Like, oh, I am a woman now, oops, I mean man, sorry, changed my mind again, seriously you cannot just make this stuff up.
We had a foster kid stop with us that told us his sibling was not, nor had for some time, talking to him/her because he forgot what pronoun he/she was using that day,
The world has gone nuts, simple.
So ... it's not a simple question with a straight answer or it is?
@jimmac saidNo it’s exactly the same as when you was a child but now all the right wing culture war loonies have been given permission to give voice to their hate.
Rather a stupid question under normal circumstances but we live in confusing times and some people think you can just make it up.
Like, oh, I am a woman now, oops, I mean man, sorry, changed my mind again, seriously you cannot just make this stuff up.
We had a foster kid stop with us that told us his sibling was not, nor had for some time, talking to him/her because he forgot what pronoun he/she was using that day,
The world has gone nuts, simple.
Gays have always been here, people trapped in the wrong gender identity have always been here, even black people clever and hard working enough to get to the Supreme Court have always been here.
Take a chill pill.
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08 Apr 22
@jimmac saidNah. It’s just, “catching up”.
Rather a stupid question under normal circumstances but we live in confusing times and some people think you can just make it up.
Like, oh, I am a woman now, oops, I mean man, sorry, changed my mind again, seriously you cannot just make this stuff up.
We had a foster kid stop with us that told us his sibling was not, nor had for some time, talking to him/her because he forgot what pronoun he/she was using that day,
The world has gone nuts, simple.
08 Apr 22
@vivify saidAnd being asked this BY a woman.
This underscores the real issue at hand. What a woman is biologically is not the same thing as what a woman is culturally.
I think this is what Ms. Brown Jackson meant to say but was thrown off by being a woman being asked to define a what a woman is.
@vivify saidYou are wrong. A woman is biologically the same thing s a woman culturally.
This underscores the real issue at hand. What a woman is biologically is not the same thing as what a woman is culturally.
I think this is what Ms. Brown Jackson meant to say but was thrown off by being a woman being asked to define a what a woman is.
08 Apr 22
@wildgrass saida woman is a pregnant 12 year old forced to carry a child to term
The SCOTUS nominee got creamed by Republicans when she answered the question "what is a woman" with...
"I'm not a biologist."
GOP senator: "The fact that you can't give me a straight answer about something this fundamental underscores the dangers of progressive education."
Ok, flash foward to today
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What is a wom ...[text shortened]... to establish the number of X chromosomes you have? Many people don't know they are XXY, for example.
a woman is a 12 year old forced to get married because the parents and the republican local government said so
08 Apr 22
@wildgrass saidwho isn't a woman though?
The SCOTUS nominee got creamed by Republicans when she answered the question "what is a woman" with...
"I'm not a biologist."
GOP senator: "The fact that you can't give me a straight answer about something this fundamental underscores the dangers of progressive education."
Ok, flash foward to today
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What is a wom ...[text shortened]... to establish the number of X chromosomes you have? Many people don't know they are XXY, for example.
well anyone who can get pregnant but chooses not. anyone born with a uterus that must get a hysterectomy. any human being with a xx set of sex chromosomes that goes through menopause.
As we well know from republican saying so, a woman's only worth is to be an incubator. You lose the rights to your own body but what an honor it is to bring a child you don't want into the world.
And to be called a woman. By the right people of course .
08 Apr 22
@wildgrass saida corporation, being a person, can be a woman, as long as she was born one
The SCOTUS nominee got creamed by Republicans when she answered the question "what is a woman" with...
"I'm not a biologist."
GOP senator: "The fact that you can't give me a straight answer about something this fundamental underscores the dangers of progressive education."
Ok, flash foward to today
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What is a wom ...[text shortened]... to establish the number of X chromosomes you have? Many people don't know they are XXY, for example.
@averagejoe1 saidDo you consider a transvestite homosexual male to be manly?
You are wrong. A woman is biologically the same thing s a woman culturally.
08 Apr 22
@zahlanzi saidPerhaps a thresd on that, Zahlanzi . Your comment is off subject.
a woman is a pregnant 12 year old forced to carry a child to term
a woman is a 12 year old forced to get married because the parents and the republican local government said so
I noticed a post of yours last week that said that you were not my friend. Well given the set of circumstances, comparing our two countries,, I would say that Hitler did not find Churchhill and Eisenhower to be his friends either. Just a point of order.
Why are you Libs so angry all the time?