Is gender a social construct?

There have always been "tomboys" and "girly men". That has never stopped anyone from learning, growing, and evolving as a soul in a body here to learn stuff. But now, it's like we're supposed to be throw all that away and try to force that square peg to fit that round hole.

The problem is that no one ever got there by pretending to get there. Like, no free lunch and all that. Little children play as mechanics and doctors and construction workers and lawyers and chefs and bankers, but none of them magically became those things in the adult world simply by pretending it was so.

Unless you have a parent such as Charlize Theron, who recently revealed that her 7 year old child is really a girl. In this article, she said:

"The Academy Award-winner revealed that her eldest child is transgender. According to the actress, Jackson, 7, was assigned male at birth but told Theron four years ago that she was actually a girl.

“Yes, I thought she was a boy, too,” the 43-year-old admitted to The Daily Mail. “Until she looked at me when she was three years old and said, ‘I am not a boy!'”

“So there you go! I have two beautiful daughters who, just like any parent, I want to protect and I want to see thrive,” the "Atomic Blonde" star said. “They were born who they are and exactly where in the world both of them get to find themselves as they grow up, and who they want to be, is not for me to decide."
 
Considering all the recent craziness I wasn't surprised to see this news item. I was surprised to see it happening in Spain. For some reason I thought that Spain was still "more traditional". It is also a bad sign when kids don't have the chance to be exposed or become familiar with archetypal or universal concepts through fairytales. Very worrying sign.


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Barcelona School Removes Little Red Riding Hood From Library Over Sexism Concerns
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A school in Barcelona has reportedly removed 200 children’s books — including Little Red Riding Hoodand Sleeping Beauty — from its library over concerns about sexism.
According to Fox News and El Pais, the Tàber school, which is run by the Catalan government, has stated that 30 percent of its library books for children under the age of six were “toxic,” with a mere 10 percent being written from a “gender perspective.”

“Society is changing and is more aware of the issue of gender but this is not being reflected in stories,” said Anna Tutzo, one of the mothers who reviewed the books.

The most common problem she found with the books was an association of masculinity with courage and competitiveness. “Also in violent situations, even though they are just small pranks, it is the boy who acts against the girl,” she said. “This sends a message about who can be violent and against whom.”

“Kids are like sponges and absorb everything around them, which allows sexist stereotypes to be normalized,” she continued...

So courageous males is bad?!
 
So, I am not seeing these folks as highly evolved souls who are striving to learn the lessons of this life while simultaneously learning to think in unlimited terms and move (naturally) to something higher. All I'm seeing is a bunch of people painting a big, bright red target on themselves as they almost beg the universe to send a giant rock to smack them into nothingness.

Huge amounts of hubris, arrogance, and way too many assumptions coupled with a severe lack of insight will most likely just lead to "soul smashing".

I know two transgenders and they have serious issues as far as I can tell. One woman who was a bit of a tomboy when growing up and suffering from severe depression changed into a "man" only after her girl-friend planted that idea in her head when she was already an adult, technically speaking. Her parents went along with it without ever questioning the validity of her ideas. When she began the process of transitioning she was even manipulating the psychologist who was assigned to her case and she thought it was fun.:umm:

The other person displays pretty weird behaviour which means I have to be very careful in my dealings with her. What I find very disturbing is that the government is encouraging these LGBT groups and people and giving them free rein with special get-togethers, projects and theatre plays. Also, the role of gay advocacy organisations is very dubious (no surprise there) and they are using some foreigners to further their agenda, who seem to think that my country is a Valhalla re. LGBT rights while totally disregarding the conservative nature of the people around them. A perfect division and conquer tactic and a ticking time bomb IMO. (FWIW. Since this is a public thread I can't go into details).
 
Considering all the recent craziness I wasn't surprised to see this news item. I was surprised to see it happening in Spain. For some reason I thought that Spain was still "more traditional". It is also a bad sign when kids don't have the chance to be exposed or become familiar with archetypal or universal concepts through fairytales. Very worrying sign.
From what I learned through someone living there, but to my own surprise, Barcelona has profiled itself as being very liberal in this respect. I just made a short search and soon found a string of recommendations. The following is from 2013 and puts Barcelona in top place: https://www.globalgayz.com/is-barcelona-the-best-gay-city/
Regarding books, some are not much valued in other places, so why not follow the lead Why stop at burning books, when libraries themselves are 'sites of whiteness,' librarian suggests
 
Contrapoints is a far left-wing youtube channel hosted by a trans woman, and while I find her opinions and aesthetic to be questionable more often than not, I felt like sharing this video below just because I think there is some interesting socratic dialogue in a number of the interactions. The first half of the video is a debate between a conservative trans woman (who buys the "transmedical" theory) and a self-decried non-binary person who openly scorns the idea of gender categories, moderated by a lampoon of Dave Rubin. The second half is a more dialectical dialogue between the conservative trans woman and Justine (the host of Contrapoints) playing herself. In this half they argue about transmedicalism versus the "social constructivism" theory of gender versus the idea that subjective feelings are what determine one's gender. In the end Jessica essentially admitted that gender constructive theory includes people who shouldn't be included in the trans definition, and excludes some people who shouldn't. In the end the only thing they could agree on was having empathy and compassion for people in general.

I guess what I liked the most about it was that it presented different people, all trans, each with unique views of sex/gender and having discussion among themselves about it. It's not really a conversation a lot of people are privy to (although it is scripted as the video author is trying to present, to their estimation, how complicated certain issues are).

The content warnings given at the start were "racism" and "transphobia" (I think for saying the word tr*nny) but I would add "lots of swearing," "some vulgar speech," and "pro-communism" to that list as well for the audience of this forum.

 
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It's straight up child abuse if you ask me. How cute to use swearing minors to promote insane adult agendas. It's extreme enough for me IMO. :evil::mad:

No class at all. They can at least take their poor arguments and present them better. And if they cared about using their brains like they said, they might learn something from such an approach. And it's actually sexualized, despite their arguments. Very easy to see the pedophilic influence with them using grown-up expletives. After all, that's what the F word means. :-(
 
Geez... Child abuse indeed. Talk about programming combined with putting children in danger... :curse: Pathetic, and it should make any woman (and hopefully the ones with young daughters too) NOT want be part of that gang. Argh...
 
Talking about shameless, irresponsible, pathological individuals using small children for pushing their sick agenda and their distorted view of reality on everybody's throats. Seeing almost daily examples of this kind of social degradation, promotion of a distorted view of reality and so on it makes me really wonder how long it will take for the normal folks to take their stand against this madness? Hoping they will see and understand that the individuals who are promoting the agenda are just pawns manipulated by those behind the curtain in order not to fall in the oldest trap of all times, the divide and conquer one.
 
Talking about shameless, irresponsible, pathological individuals using small children for pushing their sick agenda and their distorted view of reality on everybody's throats. Seeing almost daily examples of this kind of social degradation, promotion of a distorted view of reality and so on it makes me really wonder how long it will take for the normal folks to take their stand against this madness? Hoping they will see and understand that the individuals who are promoting the agenda are just pawns manipulated by those behind the curtain in order not to fall in the oldest trap of all times, the divide and conquer one.

Who would ever have imagined that human beings would sink so low as to sacrifice their children's physical, mental, emotional health to a hare-brained, unproven, ideology of selfishness?
 
Here's an interesting find - It's from 'Coke upon Littleton' - a commentary on Common Law by Lord Coke that was first published in 1481.

Hermaphrodite. Every heir is either a male, or female, or an hermaphrodite, that is both male and female. And an hermaphrodite (which is also called Audrogt/nus) shall be heir, either male or female, according to that kind of sex which prevails. Hermaphrodita, tarn masculo qtiam J'amiuec comparalur, secundum prtevalescentiam sexus incalescent'ts.And accordingly it ought to be baptised. See more of this matter Sect 35.

I smell another rat in the move to allow peeps to identify as alphabet genders.
 
Anyone ever heard about Autogynephilia?

"Paradoxically, the efforts of trans activists, then and today, to completely suppress any mention of autogynephilia in public discourse has resulted in an increased public awareness of it..."

Ray Blanchard is an adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto who specialises in the study of human sexuality, with a particular focus on sexual orientation, paraphilias, and gender identity disorders. In the 1980s and 1990s he developed a theory around the causes of gender dysphoria in natal males that became known as ‘Blanchard’s transsexualism typology’. This typology—which continues to attract a great deal of controversy—categorizes trans women (that is, natal males who identify as women) into two discrete groups.

The first group is composed of ‘androphilic’ (sometimes termed ‘homosexual’) trans women, who are exclusively sexually attracted to men and are markedly feminine in behaviour and appearance from a young age. They typically begin the process of medical transition before the age of 30.

The second group are motivated to transition as a result of what Blanchard termed ‘autogynephilia’: a sexual orientation defined by sexual arousal at the thought or image of oneself as a woman. Autogynephiles are typically sexually attracted to women, although they may also identify as asexual or bisexual. They are more likely to transition later in life and to have been conventionally masculine in presentation up until that point.

Although Blanchard’s typology is supported by a wide range of sexologists and other researchers, it is strongly rejected by most trans activists who dispute the existence of autogynephilia [...]

Interview:
Ray Blanchard: I introduced the word and the concept of autogynephilia—the tendency of certain males to become sexually aroused by the thought or image of themselves as females—in 1989 as an extension of the concept of transvestic fetishism. ....

I published my early writings on autogynephilia in specialty journals with very small circulations. I intended them for a tiny readership of clinicians who specialized in the assessment and management of gender-dysphoric patients. However, this work attracted the attention of two individuals who decided to promote it more broadly, one online (Anne A. Lawrence) and one in a book (J. Michael Bailey). These efforts, especially the book, enraged three influential trans women—two of them senior academics—who attempted to get Bailey fired from his teaching position at Northwestern University for writing it. This campaign has been documented in detail by Alice D. Dreger, a medical historian. Paradoxically, the efforts of trans activists, then and today, to completely suppress any mention of autogynephilia in public discourse has resulted in an increased public awareness of it. I think the self-defeating behavior of trans activists has persisted because the idea of autogynephilia cuts too close to the bone. ...

Subsequently other strange and unexpected (to me) events befell my notion of autogynephilia. Modern trans activists reframed transsexualism/transgenderism as a political problem rather than a clinical problem. The flat denial that autogynephilia exists became a canon of modern trans activism, trans activism become a sub-department of the Social Justice Movement, and the Social Justice Movement became a primary combatant in the ongoing, pervasive Culture Wars.

The upshot is that most trans activists—and, in solidarity, their “allies”—deny that autogynephilia exists. Since most university psychologists, sociologists, and humanities professors are “allies,” the topic of autogynephilia may be omitted from Human Sexuality or Gender Studies courses for a generation. The other side in the Culture Wars (whatever one wishes to call that side) are prepared to recognize the existence of autogynephilia as soon as they learn of it, but they tend to hurl it as an insult at male-to-female trans who offend them. That, of course, is not what I intended when I coined the term 30 years ago. [...]

When I looked at the relative numbers of autogynephilic and androphilic gender-dysphoric males back in 1987, the autogynephilic cases were already a majority, approaching 60%. The proportion had reached 75% by 2010, and it might be even higher now.

I don’t know of any evidence of significant populations of autogynephilic MTF trans in any non-Western countries. That doesn’t mean such individuals don’t exist. It could simply mean that, for non-homosexual males, the social cost of “coming out” as trans is much higher in non-Western cultures.

I do not think they are the female equivalents of autogynephiles, and to underscore that point I have started referring to them as autohomoerotics. Some of these individuals do develop clinically significant gender dysphoria, and it is well documented that at least a few autohomoerotic gender dysphorics have undergone surgical sex reassignment and were satisfied with their decision to do so.
Until recent times, autohomoerotic female-to-male transsexuals were quite rare.

That's just excerpts, more + comments on Quillette.
 
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