Government's attack on Masculinity

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It’s happening again with gender.

Sometimes the original diagnosis is correct

Fair enough but he convinced the parents with 'medical advice' to have his testicles removed after a circumcision caused his p**is to be removed. This was a year after he was functional without it. But the point was he was a sick bastard so thanks for acknowledging that.

That is true.

It could happen again. In the world of politics 'facts don’t matter.'

It was considered normal, in fact, mandatory to stone a 'woman' (young teen) to death whose hymen was not intact when about to be wedded to a much older man who purchased her (via a dowry) from her parents in accordance to the Book we derive our religion and our moral code from.

The concept of love as a condition for marriage is a modern one.

Cripples - physical and mental - where considered cursed by God or possesed by demons. They were cast out to be beggars on the street, or in the case of the latter, stoned or tortured to death. Common diseases also were also ascribed to such mythological beings that, incidentally, only crazy people (schizophrenics) ever 'met.'
"Accursed" was the proper classification before the new fangled concept of "mental disorder" was invented by Freud in the late 1800s.

"Facts" are a rather subjective art form, and only matter to whomever deams them to and as they fit to their accepted parameters.

That some of these abhorrent primitive practices are to this day practiced to a degree anywhere from parts of Eastern Europe and the Middle East to some obscure Indian Ocean islanders to Amish and other odd (traditional) religions in the US, etc, shows they can happen again because they are happening now.

In the world of humans, 'facts' do shatter.

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If you put a male and a female baby next to each other, you wouldn't be able to tell which was male and which was female until you removed their diapers. This is because they haven't learned what masculinity and femininity are yet, and modeled their behaviors accordingly.

This is what is meant by gender being a social construct - what is deemed masculine and what is deemed feminine are defined by the society rather than biology. This has nothing at all to do with biological parts, or even with sexual orientation.

And you are correct, masculine and feminine are very real, and being one or the other is plenty healthy. There is absolutely nothing wrong with being a male, cis-gender, heterosexual. If that's what you are, no one should ever pressure you to be anything else.

As I say very often, this area of study is brand new, relatively speaking. We're still learning, so take everything with a grain of salt, but also DBAA.

"If you put a male and a female baby next to each other, you wouldn't be able to tell which was male and which was female until you removed their diapers. This is because they haven't learned what masculinity and femininity are yet, and modeled their behaviors accordingly"

Actually, it's because they haven't gone through puberty yet. I don't behave "feminine" at all, but no one has ever mistaken me for a male, not even when I had a buzz cut. Granted, I don't try to actively hide or obscure my gender. I just don't care.

I understand your perspective here, but I'm trying to make the distinction between sex (male/female) and gender (masculine/feminine). I imagine that, even though you are obviously female, you have been occasionally treated differently than other women for presenting yourself with masculine characteristics. Sex is pure biology, and as such there is nothing a culture can do to change it. Gender (what is defined as masculine or feminine), on the other hand, is wholly defined by the culture in which we live. There was a time when wearing wigs, heels, and makeup was defined as masculine in Europe.

Have a few people taken things entirely too far, and called SEX a social construct? Yes. Those folks are ignoring facts, and it drives me crazy. However, it's worth noting that those people are not even remotely the majority among those who actually study sex and gender.

Homosexuality and Transgender is a mental disorder, and despite babies looking alike doesn't change the fact that one is male and the other female.

Do tell what degree you've earned that allows you the ability to credibly contradict the DSM-V. Also tell what school gave you that degree; I'm sure they'd love to have a remedial chat with you about the nature of scientific inquiry.

Go suck a government scientist, being that you believe in that. lol

Bored with you now. Come back when you have something worth saying.

Blah blah blah, and yet? Your still WRONG! lol

I don't own a still, but if I did I can assure you it would be right.