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Throng

['Member']Joined: October 24, 2015 at 07:27Last active: January 30, 2026 at 03:54None discussions16 comments
Location: Australia

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50 something year old male

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Foucault, Zizek

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that is a very interesting point that I'd never considered before. Of course. Being female is the only criterion for womanhood (other than being an ad...
January 18, 2026 at 01:23
The way I understand the distinction is, transgender is like TWareW, whereas transexuals are men that live as women (not actually women). Since you co...
January 17, 2026 at 06:33
Well, misogyny is a dynamic between powerful 'Men' in contrast with disempowered "Women". Males can exert that at any time because we can simply bash ...
January 05, 2026 at 05:22
Indeed gender is necessarily detached from sex, but appearance as the opposite sex is requisite for trans affirmation. Indeed, that is the objective o...
January 05, 2026 at 04:56
Foucault was a critical theorist which puts him in this same post-Marxist / neo-Marxist space where social idenities replace economic determinism as t...
January 05, 2026 at 04:29
If we contextualise thoughts with the physical senses (mind can be considered the sense of thought), we can see when discomfort is felt how the mind r...
January 04, 2026 at 07:30
Quick note: "Sex assigned at birth" is an inaccurate expression. It should be "Sex inferred at birth". ''Assigned' implies we observed external genita...
January 04, 2026 at 07:12
'TWAW' is not rational, but circular. Redefining 'women' to accommodate males sounds something like, 'A woman is a person who identifies as a woman'. ...
January 03, 2026 at 06:36
It is not necessary to believe anything. Personal identity, religion, class or lack thereof is irrelevant. A Christian, Muslim, Jew, Atheist or any hu...
January 03, 2026 at 04:40
In the past (back in my day), transexuals made no claim beyond the true story about being a male who presents as a female. There were bigots that had ...
January 03, 2026 at 03:05
The answer is no. 'Men' and 'women' regard sexually mature males and females, and changing sex is impossible. A man might appropriate the norms and st...
January 03, 2026 at 00:49
It's possible, but unless that thought occurs to me, there's no belief in that regard at all. There isn't a continuous belief, let alone object perman...
November 23, 2023 at 02:09
That I don't know. I don't know why there is something rather than nothing, but when I see the cup I no longer believe it because I know it in the qua...
November 22, 2023 at 22:30
I believe in the unperceived cup each time I remember it in my mind. Absent the thought, the belief is absent.The error of assumption is regarding bel...
November 22, 2023 at 13:03
Good philosophical sense. I was thinking about the minimum possible information and it seemed to me information is something that can be communicated ...
November 22, 2023 at 08:34
I'm sure there is bound to complex social issues involved, like socioeconomic determinants for example, and to really get to bottom of it in terms of ...
December 04, 2015 at 09:24
I can't see what you wrote, but you said an armed society is wary and cautious, and indeed, the primary purpose of arms is 'security' - but what does ...
December 04, 2015 at 01:31
In the commercial industrial world, a full consideration of meat consumption and its personal and environmental circumstances, let alone the quality o...
November 29, 2015 at 09:07
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Wow meow - even your post is art! Indeed - a culture is a very intricate thing, and art is enmeshed with it, as the old question about art commenting ...
November 11, 2015 at 02:28
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I have this problem in philosophy where its like mud, and getting bogged in questions like what is culture. It is a subtle concept steeped in social e...
November 10, 2015 at 15:06
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"That seems to be a bit odd, but hey... look who's saying that (me). Personal taste is more or less a 'slack manner' of a standard of measure, but is ...
November 10, 2015 at 02:37
Lets look at the dissection of natural philosophy. If it is of the soul it is religion - which is just symbol and ritual, so they don't have problems ...
November 10, 2015 at 01:47
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What's good has nothing to do personal taste. Taste is required to discern between what's good and what's not, but even if it's not to personal taste ...
October 31, 2015 at 08:06