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That tumblr is great. Gonna have to post some screenshots from it. The owner is an obese TERF hater, predictably reblogging content from anti cop blogs and how Hogwarts Legacy promotes genocide.I've seen pictures like this making the rounds on Reddit recently:
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I just wanted to give a quick explanation of why these are weak arguments, and how to respond to them when you see them.
What they're essentially saying here is that because there are genetic disorders, there are birth defects, in which some people do not precisely fall under the biological sex binary that the vast majority of human beings fall under, then that means the whole concept is arbitrary. This is like saying that puberty isn't a natural part of human aging because some people have disorders like Kallmann syndrome where their bodies don't naturally undergo puberty.
And I think it's also worth looking into what some of these exceptions to the biological sex binary they're alluding to actually look like. One of the most common examples is Klinefelter syndrome, in which a person is born with male genitalia but with two X chromosomes. What does this mean? Does this make them androgynous, something that completely defies our society's understanding of gender? Not quite. The only visible symptoms of it are man boobs and an inability to grow facial hair. Also, a smaller-than-average willy. Most people with Klinefelter syndrome don't even know they have it.
That's it. That's the smoking gun they're using to try and deconstruct one of society's oldest and most basic concepts.
I really hate arguments like those in the screencaps I provided because not only are they inane, they're also incredibly dishonest. It's an obfuscation tactic, designed to work on people who don't understand biology (and can therefore immediately call them out on their bullshit) by muddying the waters.
TL;DR: never ask a woman her age, a man his salary, or a trans activist what the word "syndrome" means.
Kavernacle also commented on the Girlfriend Reviews scandal: they cultivated a progressive audience, they didn't have to play the game. Blaming the victim.
LonerBox did this in one of his videos. Said the word "woman" was vague, but he knew what a camera was as a kid, despite not knowing the definition. Yes he's that retarded.This premise is locking Graham into committing the logical fallacy they teach you to avoid in high school debate club. "A fork has teeth, humans have teeth, therefore a fork is human!" There was no way for him to win this argument.
Ignoring the obvious fact that women are not fucking chairs, language requires some level of comprehension and inference. No definition will perfectly describe something in every circumstance all of the time. A great example of this is that stupid debate on whether something is soup, cereal or salad.
You'd say cereal is neither, since it's not hot like soup and salad uses vegetables, not grains. Then someone could add "Gazpacho is cold! You can have a fruit salad, why not a grain salad? Checkmate" and then it just never ends.
In the back of everyone's minds though, we know what cereal is. We know what salads are. We know what soup is. We know the difference between a chair and a fucking horse. If i ask someone for a salad, i'm not asking for fucking Mini Wheats, even if technically, if you squint, they might fit the definition of salad.
Ironically, I believe the definition of woman (adult human female) is one of the only definitions that is pretty much air-tight.
TLDR: Exceptions to definitions don't make them completely invalid.
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