Artemis

Of course there is a standard description, including chromosomes and sex organs. Most people match that description. Unless you have some scientific p...

Well, that ends the conversation right there when you claim you know what the other person is actually thinking without them being aware of it themsel...

I don't know how you can feasible claim that. Most people match the standard description of biological sexes.

Did you mean anyone or everyone?

These are anomalies. Just like albino crows and six-toed cats. Men and women with unmatched sex features are also anomalies called "intersex." Transpe...

Sexes are terms to describe actual physical attributes, the constellation of which is really not arbitrary at all. Certain attributes go together with...

I know this isn't a democracy or nuthin, but could we do a vote on it?

It's a measure of a kind of intelligence in animals with certain predispositions. Not all kinds for all animals. Cats are hard to train, because in pa...

Is gender now a supervillian with consciousness and everything? I don't see how it makes sense to claim that differentiating female and male bodies is...

The origins of language may be musical, but now they are distinct categories. Very strictly speaking, lyrical music is a hybrid art form of poetry and...

Red is bold. Philosophy is bold. I think it suits the forum. It's also often a bloodbath in here, so that's fair warning to the n00bs.

Define "dignity" for a mentally capable cancer victim versus a child with mental difficulties? I mean, dignity isn't even the same for a healthy child...

I wonder if it really matters if it's a choice or not. Like, the LGB community used to insist on their rights because they said it wasn't. But now mor...

But you can adopt a new family....

Yes. There's two kinds of family. Biological and social. That's the same difference between sex and gender. Sex is biological and cannot currently be ...

The whole point was, if you don't recall, that family is based on actions and social roles rather than just genetics. If we can assert that I can beco...

Say you're born into a family where your parents used ivf with donor sperm and eggs. They also had already adopted two other kids. They raise you and ...

Hence the disowning bit.

I think logic suggests that you should stop lending him money. Two reasons: 1. Giving him money has not seemed to help him in the past and seems unlik...

Correction: entails a biological and/or social bond. People are generally not biologically related to their spouses, in-laws count as families, as do ...

Not only is the theory not referrimg to "fittest" but "fit," it's "fit for a certain environment." Scorpions are fit for certain places and climates, ...

It's survival of the fit, not the fittest. Often misquoted. I'm confused about your ant example. The worker ant seems perfectly fit, although her circ...

Your self-description reminds me of part 51 of "Song of Myself" by Walt Whitman (especially the famous part, highlighted in bold): 51 The past and pre...

It's a bit more complicated than just a blanket "14 is the age of consent" in Germany. It can still be considered rape if the other person is over 21 ...

There's actually a quite simple solution: take a woman's word for it.

It's clear you haven't the faintest idea of what you're talking about.

I did not. You just wish I was the strawperson you're trying to make me out to be.

I didn't say they were. So what's your point? Feminism would be unnecessary too. So would any social justice movement. Alas, that's not the world we l...

I don't think it makes any sense to claim that a person looking for metaphysical accuracy is being prejudiced. Some might be, as you suggest, using it...

While I acknowledge that there have likely always been good men, I would caution you against assuming the majority in past centuries were female allie...

Sure, there's been suffering on both sides, particularly when you bring in class. But women of all classes have historically been considered property ...

Feminists do not deny biology. In fact, most feminists argue for women's rights based on biology, like when they push for lactation rooms in workplace...

Of course details like "what exactly is transgenderism" determine treatment. It's like the difference between how you'd treat someone with paranoia ve...

Sounds like you agree that what is generally understood to be the definition of patriarchy exists, you just don't like the label.

Red herring. Actually, that's a really important, fundamental question before medicine should be practiced. I mean, unless you know what it is, you ca...

Nope.

That's not a response to my post.

I guess you could phrase it that way. I think doctors offering transitions to underage persons are probably (in good faith) trying too quick to accomm...

True that.

But that is not what women (lesbian or otherwise) are FOR.

Can you explain what case you are making then? Cause imho your last post sounded like you did not have answers to those questions but would still endo...

So then why?

You tell me.

I don't think there's a responsible, compassionate case to be made that we should try not to answer these very basic questions before proceeding with ...

1 Timothy 2:12 New International Version (NIV) 12 I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet. Okiedokie.

Yes, I do. Because, why only often? Why not always? What is the percentage? Is there a way to tell ahead of time? And on what basis are they happier? ...

This conversation is going in circles. We're clearly just not going to agree. Which is sad, but I guess it is what it is.

How do you not see how that's a disgusting claim to make? No one is trying to hurt you by choosing to sleep with women. They just hate men and would r...

It's presumptuous to assume that because I don't agree with you, I don't know what you're referring to. My assertion of your bigotry rests solely on y...

Where's the difference? Both ways it assumes malice behind refusing to sleep with someone. Whether your malicious for refusing it or maliciously refus...