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Whose bones? And why is Archie O'Logist after 'em? :chin: How do you go about the testes checking? And is that legal in your parts? :brow:

:lol: :cry:

Another way of putting it is that such arguments are off-topic here because climate change is specifically not the subject of the OP. Thanks for coope...

For the purposes of this thread not being derailed, we accept the scientific consensus that humans cause global warming and the focus is on a more spe...

I think @"apokrisis" has nailed this. But: Any ideas?

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I sympathise. I hope it doesn't get you banned though I'm not confident it won't tbh. Good luck, anyhow.

Actually, it's our inherent love of a good tune that will ultimately drown us. Can't blame the pipe or the piper for that.

Fair enough, the sentiment depends on cultural context, but the general progression of reaction from most to least negative, I would say, is anger>>ri...

(I don't think btw that "pregnant women" is offensive because it's exclusive or anything like that. That would be traveling to the other extreme in lo...

If you think the writers of the latest editions of every modern major dictionary and encyclopedia are lunatics but you're not, look harder in the mirr...

Never heard of him and neither has Google apparently. Unless he's that Rocky Horror show actor? Anyway, the dictionaries and encyclopedias have left p...

Ideologies in the form of religion, media, politics etc. are society's reproductive organs. And society's primary function is to reproduce itself. So,...

Maybe if you'd read the thread properly, you'd see the philosophical element here. The intersection between biology/psychology/society and the primacy...

You can only pretend to be something if you don't identify as so being. So, I can pretend to be a woman because I don't identify as one, but a trans w...

It depends on the specific context. In some ways, we are very similar to animals, yes, but it's a minor side issue here anyway.

In the context of my posts, it should be clear I'm not "bashing" animals.

/uploads/resized/files/n3/lvykupanyt1nsu36.png If this person's existence makes any of you angry, I suggest the problem is with you, not him. And you ...

"A trans man is a man who was assigned female at birth." "Trans men may or may not be capable of menstruation and pregnancy depending on their individ...

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I hope that doesn't sound slippery by the way. Identity is the base level of personal reality. And the minute you try to define aspects of it as this ...

Defining "man" or "woman" is like the problem of defining "game". Every time you find a characteristic that seems essential, you find a game that does...

You've maybe struck on the fundamental difference between animals and people. For animals, behaviour is determinative. They are fully identified with ...

I agree it takes a fair degree of thought to work out what's going on. I think about it like this: Level 1: Biology >> signals gender and social ident...

There's a whole spectrum of views from Judith-Butler-type postmodernist takes (forget biology!) to the denialism we've seen on this thread (forget psy...

I agree. Calling the other side "transphobes" at the drop of the hat isn't necessary or helpful. Better to just make the argument on the basis that ps...

" Bollocks. It just means the doctor said "That's a male". You can use "recognized" if it makes you happy though. :kiss:

You're welcome, I guess...

Although, if you want to follow your line to its logical conclusion, Trump was never president and is just a large orange blob that makes annoying hig...

The mind and society are real NOS. It's not just lumps of galavanting flesh out there. We're proving that right now by talking in a socio-psychologica...

According to every mainstream dictionary and encyclopedia published within the last year or two, a trans woman can be a biological male, yes. But, don...

Oh yes, e.g. Look >> a biological male who is defined as a woman due to being socially recognized as a woman due to psychologically identifying as a w...

And again. >> :monkey:

Et voila. You have outdone yourself here, sir.

Dictionaries, encyclopedias, and rational members of TPF recognize there is an issue concerning biological, social, and psychological definitions for ...

No, I don't think a biological male human can produce eggs. But I don't exclusively define a man as a biological male, and neither does the dictionary...

He's satrirtizing your silliness. And rightly so. You have no argument except denialism of the issue. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans_woman "A tra...

Society does not exclusively associate women with biological females, obviously. That. Is. The. Point. Read the definition. Stop being an ignoramus.

You're defining biological sex over which there is no debate, not gender. We all know what biological sex is. Here's gender: "the condition of being a...

Now define "female" and "male". You'll soon discover how silly and self-defeating your approach is. >>A "man" is what is socially recognized as a man....

The sociology of gender relates primarily to social facts concerning gender, which are linguistic in nature and absent in animals. So, yes, animals ha...

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I think that's fair comment. The topic here concerns reactions to the attack and what conclusions, if any, can be drawn from those. It's a difficult e...

When it comes to Trump, @"NOS4A2" is mostly here for comic relief. On other topics, he says the odd sensible thing though.

You made your point and got your answer. There's nothing else to say in the thread about your complaint. If you want to take it further and try to get...

It's OK for Street to label Christians rapists or defenders of rapists ("Christians", read it, not "the Catholic Church") but completely unacceptable ...

Nonsense, we banned one of the best posters we've ever had, @"Streetlight", partly for bigotry against Christians and we've banned others for Islamoph...

I did that and also saw lots of popular support in the press, which suggests broad public support.

E.g. About a third of Brazilians are now evangelical and this is partly why Bolsanaro still has such hardcore support even while threatening to ignore...

Other reasons for lack of condemnation among some clerics could be, e.g.: 1) Political: There is no religious justification for the act but my condemn...