You stated that: I'm objecting to the bolded part. There is evidence (quite a lot of it in fact) that "socialization", or social expectations and gend...
In other words, before you reject them out of hand because you see criticizing trans people and transgenderism as some sort of religious crusade (as y...
Nonsense. There most certainly is evidence that "socialization"- sociocultural gender norms and expectations- plays a major role in driving violence a...
And why should that be surprising? If they were raised as male, and in a culture that bombards them with male/masculine gender norms all throughout th...
But isn't one of major reasons (or even the major reason) Christianity has failed to catch on in India is because of the success/dominance of Hinduism...
Charles Mingus- Moanin' :fire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImvjZ7fUUBU I challenge anyone to listen to this song all the way through without e.g. ...
:up: :100: I'd have to say that Chick Corea/Return to Forever first got me into the jazz vicinity (i.e. fusion), but it was Coltrane- and the track "A...
Sure... but whence this inclination? If there was no such thing as socially-enforced gender roles, would females naturally (biologically?) want to wea...
This was precisely the point of the Scientific American article I previously linked: the traits you're talking about as inherently male or female are ...
Right, there are differences in the statistical distributions of certain traits or behaviors between the sexes (including biological differences). Thi...
:100: :up: The funny thing is that this sort of misguided critique of gender identity almost systematically ignores the distinction between biological...
Sure, the first time they hear the phrase "there is a possible world such that blah-blah-blah". Then someone explains it to them, and they're all good...
:up: Agreed. And you're certainly right that this cuts both ways, and it is equally obnoxious and counter-productive no matter who is doing it. Frustr...
I wasn't asking for definitions of statistical significance or Protestantism, I was asking you what exactly "practicing atheism as a kind of secular P...
What I said was perfectly consistent with what I believed; you've merely been fooled by your willful ignorance RE how possible-world semantics works. ...
You're right, you brilliantly saw through our subterfuge to the deeper conspiracy at work; our scheme to use modal possible worlds semantics to brainw...
I suppose now is as good a time as any to let you know that your posts to that thread were as much the reason for the thread's deletion as the OP. If ...
Can you say exactly what constitutes a "static" meaning for you here? How long must it remain static? And how static must it remain- completely static...
That's going to depend on what exactly you wish to discuss or what you want to say about the topic. If, for instance, all you want to discuss is wheth...
Banno already covered this very well and I don't have much to add to what he said, except to emphasize that possible-world semantics- i.e. "there is a...
Sure, and that's perfectly fine- its certainly not the case that any discussion about gender is out of bounds. But it is a sensitive topic, and often ...
One thing to keep in mind is that language use is highly fluid and diverse, and so these sorts of definitions or analyses always get you into trouble ...
Absolutely... And of course this is why, as you already pointed out, its not especially useful to invoke "isms" in such discussions, and especially wh...
:fire: :100: :up: As Banno pointed out (i.e. remembering his Wittgenstein), meaning is use: its a simple principle, but it is really useful to remembe...
I think this misconception/misrepresentation has to be deliberate in at least many cases, because it does seem to persist no matter how many times peo...
:up: Well and who also seem to think that atheism is synonymous with or entails things like materialism, moral nihilism/anti-realism, and so on. It do...
Sure. The point is only that atheism has a fairly narrow scope (a point on which I expect we largely agree), and doesn't make (or imply) any positive ...
The claims in question aren't ontological claims; that's the entire point. They sound or look like ontological claims, but they are not. So when I say...
I'm brand new... sort of: I was a long-time member and moderator at the original Philosophy Forums, and was asked to join the moderation team here. An...
Forgive me for stating the obvious, but it seems to me that the only logical consequences of atheism wrt e.g. ontology, metaphysics, cosmology, etc, a...
Hi tomatohorse- I recommended that your thread be deleted, and not entirely due to your OP: your OP wasn't great, it wasn't well-researched and didn't...
Yeah I agree. And not only organic compounds, but also the discovery of liquid water on many objects in our own solar system (Europa, Enceladus, etc)....
I mean, creation myths are extremely common in human history- the Wikipedia page for "a list of creation myths" includes over 100 creation myths from ...
My crystal ball agrees. Interstellar space travel and terraforming are going to be too difficult, too resource-intensive, even assuming vastly superio...
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