Sy Borg (indirect at least)?
I'm not having this discussion "for fun"! Actually, dealing with postmodern gender/queer theory is pretty unfunny! Its doctrines may be laughable, but the real-life gender/sex issues involved aren't a laughing matter at all.Astro Cat wrote: ↑July 13th, 2022, 6:47 amWhat might be an entertaining intellectual conundrum for you on a public forum might be grievously injurious to someone that struggles with gender dysmorphia everyday. Or it could at least be exhausting to them. I know I get exhausted when people debate my life for fun (do I have bodily autonomy?
Once again, rejecting the concept of gender as defined and used by postmodern critical theory is not the same as rejecting the concept of gender as such—nor is it the same as lacking empathy or sympathy for transsexual people!Astro Cat wrote: ↑July 13th, 2022, 6:47 amI don't really know, I'm not trans. As I said I only empathize analogously to similar things people debate for fun about me. But I wanted to make sure that any trans people reading this know they are valid, supported, and that not everyone feels the need to hyper-analyze them; that the notion of gender is sensible and accepted by many. That's all.
The ideas in our minds are manifested in our attitudes and actions, so they have practical consequences and effects. Analyzing them critically is an important thing to do!
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"Today more than ever before the serious-minded are convinced that philosophy has practical tasks. The life of both the individual and the community is not molded by their mere needs and fortunes but also at all times by the strength of dominant ideas. Ideas are spiritual powers. They belong to the realm of thought. But thought has its own discipline and its own critique—philosophy. Therefore philosophy is called upon to include within its scope the pressing problems of the contemporary world and to co-operate in the work that needs to be done."
(Hartmann, Nicolai. New Ways of Ontology. Translated by Reinhard C. Kuhn. Chicago: Henry Regnery Co., 1953. p. 3)
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