Berkeley professor explains gender theory | Judith Butler 

When my Brother at 11 years of age was lured by a pack of pedophiles .Ultimately groomed, used ,then basically slaughtered ! Also tried to explain gender abnormalities ! Why they are being shoved down our throats is to keep on destroying the normal balanced Families Which develop healthy communities and Culture . Divide and conquer . So the psychopath Elite can ?

I respect personality and individual identity. What I have a problem with is the gender theorist claim that a great many behaviours are incompatible with a biological sex (of which there are only two. There is no third mechanism by which reproduction may occur in humans, nor can humans switch between the two). What the majority of people think about typical behaviours associated with certain sexes is irrelevant and it is the height of narcissism to define your personal identity around what other people think - so far as to claim, you may have been born into the wrong body because of what other people think of your body. Of course people have always behaved differently. But it is an entirely new phenomenon for activists to claim that mere behaviour has changed their physiology, entitling them to access to the protected spaces of the opposite sex.

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"As Butler says, there are many perspectives on gender." And all of those stemming from modern gender theory (e.g., transgenderism) are incoherent. "As Butler acknowledges at 1:41, there are biological differences in sex." And in age groups. Hence, we not only have terms to distinguish between sexes (male and female) but also terms to distinguish between age groups (child and adult). For efficiency's sake, we call an adult human female a woman, a human child that's female a girl, adult human males men, and human children that are male boys. "To clarify: Most people are born with the sex of either male (with XY chromosomes and male anatomy) or female (with XX chromosome and female anatomy). A small proportion of people are born with different chromosomal or anatomical makeups (e.g. Klinefelter syndrome)." And those people are also either males or females, because your chromosomal makeup is not what actually makes you one or the other gender. "Gender is the role people of a specific sex play in different cultures." Nonsense. You are confusing gender itself with gender roles and norms. But if we were to equate them, it wouldn't be workable with the rest of your worldview. After all, if someone were to adhere to the roles/norms expected of men but identify as a woman, what would you call them? "The phrase 'assigned at birth' refers to how most of us are raised from birth with the gender role most typical of the sex you are born." No. Doctors *observe* our gender (aka sex) and simply report it. Even in those extremely rare cases in which our external genitalia mislead them on our gender, the truth is still found by taking a deeper look at our biology. "Transgender people are those who intuitively identify with a different gender from their sex or assigned gender, and decide to live as it." First problem: We can't possibly know what we "intuitively" identify with, because we've no basis for that comparison. We've all only been just the one gender, so we'd have no way of knowing the difference between "feeling like" a man vs. "feeling like" a woman, or indeed if there is such a difference to begin with. Second problem: What is meant by "decide to live as (a gender)"? Again, you seem to be confusing gender roles/norms with gender itself. But someone who adheres to all of the gender roles and norms of a man but doesn't identify as one wouldn't be considered one even by you. "There are well-documented examples of transgender and non-binary people for hundreds, if not thousands of years" Which doesn't explain the recent apparent uptick in its popularity. And if the narrative that not going along with their self-identification causes them to unalive themselves, it becomes inexplicable why there wasn't a huge amount in self-unalivings throughout history, as people were inarguably far less tolerant of this nonsense than they are today. "For a deeper dive into the scientific research around transgender issues, check out our columnist Ethan Seigel's recent article..." Let's not pretend that actual science can back this worldview. Science is about objective, observable reality. Transgenderism can't even produce objective, workable definitions for its terms. And neither can any of the so-called "scientists" giving the worldview lip service.

As a trans woman, I would've hoped that Judith would've been more specific and mentioned gender role, gender expression and gender identity rather than just lump the 3 all together under the umbrella term of gender. This is because 2 of those (gender role and expression) are social constructs, and gender identity is as biological as our genetic sex. Our gender identity is hard-wired into our brains during the 2nd trimester of gestation through exposure to differing amounts of androgens, but because people are lazy, identity gets lumped in with role and expression and is classed as a construct. This gives anti-trans bigots the opportunity to dismiss my identity as just a choice when it is not. It doesn't make sense to think it is. Who would risk losing family and friends, getting beaten up or worse, and being discriminated against by the state if they had a choice in the matter?

Most of radical feminist theory involves lesbians and queers. No wonder most women reject this brand of feminism.

hear hear!

@@aminahmad2595 Most people don't know or care

Doubtful, especially since 'toxic' definitions weren't part of the vocabulary until the late 2000s. That's also just not the philosophy of modern feminism as it didn't matter if you got married, so long as it was a consensual setup where you weren't coerced into being homebound.

​@@erikfldt390 What was it called prior to the identification of the term "toxic word"?

and we should be chill if people refuse not to participate in you going against the norm

@@rickperez8975 Project much? No one cares about people minding their own business, it's when reactionaries do all they can to f*** with vulnerable groups that aren't in any way affecting them.

That’s fine with me. I just don’t want to hear about it! I’m sick of this topic! 🤦🏻‍♀️ Can something in this world be kept private!?

@@Onceuponatime889 No one forced you to watch the video.

@@erikfldt390 I didn’t. I just needed to hear first few sentences.

Of course you cannot escape influences from your environment. The language you're most comfortable in and probably think in was given to you by your environment, and affects how you think. In most languages you cannot say "I broke my arm" unless you're a bit insane and purposefully broke your arm, but in English that's no problem. Same thing for accidentally breaking a vase. In English you can say "He broke the vase" whereas in Spanish you would say "The vase broke". The long term affects being that in English we would remember WHO did it and punishments would be more likely and in Spanish they would remember that it was an accident, and not necessarily who did it. -ted talk How language shapes the way we think | Lera Boroditsky It's just a silly thing to say in my opinion, as the gender discussion wouldn't even be happening without an environment to have it in.

​@@DH-og5yr I'm talking about pervasive gender discrimination in its many forms. Those create a hostile environment to individual freedom, it curtails development, it stifles creativity, it's a constant struggle to break out of the narrowly defined roles the female gender is put in. And when you do conform, you really don't have equal power. We don't even know much about women's history. I don't understand why men feel compelled to comment with gaslighting explanations of the reality many girls and women experience.

Ok but why this need to "define it for yourself"? Why do you actually care? And how do you propose to fix the inevitable conflicts that arise when how you define for yourself contradicts with how others perceive you?

​@@sozeytozey Because as a woman I am confronted with misogyny in its many subtle and not so subtle forms. I don't like that, it's depressing and even traumatizing. I want to live in an environment that is inclusive of diversity. Because when a hostile environment is created for girls and women who dare to step out of their very narrowly defined roles, it distracts, it stifles creativity, it obstructs development to become your genuine self. With diversity and inclusion, also men will profit from that for themselves. Misogyny is instrumental, there f.e. was a research report about why girls and women face so much street harassment. It turns out that young educated single women are harassed the most. So it's a form of oppression, these young women are seen as very threatening to the patriarchal hierarchy: autonomous women who step out of the gender role of dependent, subordinate, nurturer, caregiver, mother, wife or h*ker.

@@sozeytozey "And how do you propose to fix the inevitable conflicts that arise when how you define for yourself contradicts with how others perceive you?" I guess it's important to become activist again, glad to know there are men who also want change and who commit to women's organizations. Being a 'feminist' is very unpopular, but it's really about human rights.

These ppl dont want debates...and this is why we just watched a video where she is alone spitting nonsensicals unchallenged...

Id prefer Helen Joyce vs BUtler. Joyce is a much better debater than Kathleen Stock

you just ended the whole argumnet, congrats

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That's wt I'm talking about! Pop off, Sis! 🙌🏽

Can I hear an "amen!"? LOL

This wins

BD, you don't have to be anywhere near trans to hear those insults. Just be a tomboy. Just be a boy who would rather practice violin than play baseball. This is all a distraction to avoid people seeing the money leave their possession to find its way into the billionaires offshore accounts, and maybe a way to appease the crueler evangelical sects.

As a feminine gay man, this was always the case. I was made fun of for beeing too girly, but if a trans woman states her identity, then no matter how feminine she is, she is "a man". People don't care about "natural order", "biology" or "reality", they only care to excercise their control over others.

TRUE! You are absolutely right! So are others! Notice what you wrote about transwomen's experience of being told "you’re not a real man". We know exactly what this means. However, this statement --- “you’re not a real man” --- is not the same as that "you are a woman" nor that "you are a real woman" nor does it imply so. However, the very moment that the person goes “no actually, you’re right, I’m not a man, I’m a woman”, at that instant the person is wrong! No, that person is still a man, but not a 'real' man, in the sense of being a manly man, macho man, or an otherwise a normal man (as difficult as it may be to define "normal" for the purposes of the current context). And it is absolutely correct that such a person should be told “you’re not a real woman” as well as “you’re not a woman at all in any sense of the word WOMAN”. Individuals, no matter what their preferences and behavior, should be free to live life according to their own choices for maximum happiness. Everyone's rights must be protected and advanced no matter who that person is and how he/she behaves (without impinging on others' rights, etc.).

​@@fraiopatll633 So you're saying they're not a "real" man or woman? What a ridiculous notion. You can't have your cake and eat it too. The person is a "real" whatever the hell they want to be, in that "man" and "woman" do not have unambiguous definitions. I'm a man that usually does not exhibit "macho" behaviour, in fact I find it pretty stupid. I'm still a real man. "Man" and "woman" as they pertain to how we fit into society have nothing to do with what genitals you have or how masculine/feminine your look or behave. Everyone is what they feel they are, and they are a real one of whatever that is. I suggest you watch the video again, seems like it went completely over your head.

It is may be better to stay as you were in the beginning and not listen to what whoever says... 😂

It's called personality - gender has come to be called that by fools who want to be something special just because of their personality.

You do not have the power to decide 'who you are', if 'who you are' refers to your fundamental construction. You can choose your personality, the qualities you choose to reinforce, even behavior. But who you are is a matter of fact, and not a matter of your personal aspirations.

@@burgerbobbelcher No. you cant - you are born either a boy, or a girl. That's why we recognize them as boys and girls. You cant apply your stupid fairy tale on the facts.

@Matt But do you really? Can you really emancipate yourself from physical reality? Can you be suddenly less tall? Have a different hair Color or be an animal? Or be less old? Now a gender feminist would say that woman and men are only different with their sexual organs. For a social constructionist everything is a social construct. But is that really true? Actually we know it is not true. Research is very clear on that. Doesn’t mean we are born very differently or that society has no influence but there are such things are inherent differences. Why are there two genders if they are by default entirely the same?

@@burgerbobbelcher What a well articulated opinion.

Welcome brother!

Same

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Well you'll have to be quick as there's a ton of deletions already!!! Reasonable comments I might add but obviously not woke enough so auto-delete is in effect!!!

@@jamesbrown4107woke counter 1! Y’all are silly as hell! What’s reasonable to you is probably ignorance since you unironically use “wholeness”

these identities are unfortunately held over us and used to oppress, these form constructs and cages, but we can find liberation through breaking the constraints and fighting patriarchy and capitalism.

Exactly, no such thing.

? just take a break? I don't know but as a math student i just focus on math, why focus on race or gender if it makes you upset and tired

@@MonkeyDLuffy-gd6se Right, as a black person in the US, I'll just not focus on it. I'm sure it's just because I'm thinking about it, nothing to do with how other people treat me, every day. Like, are you serious?

@@RadicalTrivia well just dont try to let it consume and dictate your life

Correct

The idea is more like assigned by the DNA in the person's body

Sex/gender is "Established" at conception, and is observed and documented at birth or before.

@@zachman5150 did ya'll morons even watch the vidoe? Sex and gender are not the same thing,

How do they do with hermaphrodite babies?

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Gender is also connected to this. As is the word gene, and the word genetics. The 'gen' part of the word comes from the ancient greek word for birth, 'genesis'.

Human sex is a social construct that classifies certain physiological features human bodies tend to have into 2-3 boxes (3 depending on your view on intersexuality). Different societies and cultures have had different understandings and definitions of sex, it often varies from medical professional to medical professional! Human sex itself serves to enforce the binary structures we try to break and feeds into the essentialization of our bodies.

Thank you. Your explanation of gender is better and more clearly defined than Judith

It really is just one of those things in life where you know it when you see it. Like as a kid we learn that the stove is hot.

Just because an idea pours from the human mind, it does not then follow that such an idea is worthy of being taken seriously.

You're acting like you're all about free love and people identifying how they want, but then you fall back to the fundamental culture war lie that people are forcing or pressuring others to be trans. That's not the case. That's right wing propaganda for no other purpose than to make you hate trans people under the implication that trans people are controlling others but they aren't. Trans people just want to be accepted. That's literally it. Stop validating fascists and making the issue so much more than it is.

Exactly. Unfortunately, the cultural marxists have hijacked this cause/philosophy that is kind, and good, and egalitarian, and are using it to disrupt, destroy, and control. My daughter loves racing gokarts, martial arts, sailing, driving, camping, but she is, and always will be a girl. I actually allow her to be her "true self" by not telling her she is actually a boy trapped in a girls body and then proceed to destroy her body, life, and identity to suit old gender tropes.

Mental illness too? Is that performative?

​@@Open6musicAs someone with mental illness, I'd say yes, to an extent. There are certainly ways in which we feel people with mental illness are stereotypically "supposed" to act and think about themselves, and these ideas can shape our behavior. To be clear, "performative" doesn't mean something isn't real, just that there's a performative element to it, a way in which we've been socially taught to behave.

@@theprousteffect9717 separating "performative" from "worthless" or "not real" was a super important step in understanding how i interact with fashion and personal expression!! for a while i was pretty frustrated that a decent chunk of my interest in those areas was driven by approval & acknowledgement from others w/ similar design philosophies as opposed to being generated intrinsically-took me a long time to realize that the entire world of experimental fashion is built around performance, trading style that most people connect with at a base level with a more intimate connection with much fewer. it gave me a lot of peace with how i share my gender with others & what i hope to gain from it

She is amazing! And I totally agree

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I ID as a dog on Thursdays and a woman of colour and lezbyan on the weekends; Mondays I play the white man with a gun telling black folks to .... well Narc. Chaos = where next ?

It is likely that, if we're able to reach a point in which we're free to gender ourselves as we please, gender will become a useless concept, yes, but we're not at that point yet.

Who says it means "that little"though? Fluidity doesn't equal lack of meaning. If I change professions from carpenter to systems engineer it means my profession has been fluid, but it doesn't take away the meaning of either of those professions, the same goes for gender. It's a role we play in society, that role can change, but at any point it has a current state and that state is absolutely 100% meaningful.

​@@empireoflightz the actual difference between changing genders and changing professions is that there is something physically tangible in the essence of switching professions. You can not be a carpenter without in some way working with your hands, use a hammer, carry dry-wall, raising houses. Switching proffesions is not something you can do on a whim, it must meet certain criteria. Whatever those critera might be, these criteria are something which are verifiable by others. The problem I see with gender is that the concepts revises itself when it gets criticized, and now the term is so ubituqous that gender can essentially be anything, all the time. I could, for all you know, have changed my gender 10 times writing this comment, but I couldnt have changed my profession 10 times. The problem as to why this concept of gender isn't useful is because there is no way for you to verify whether or not i changed my gender. What we have created is an un-verifiable part of my identity which is totally free from physical and biological reality. To me that sounds alot like a spiritual soul. If concept comes to mean anything and everything, ultimately that term comes to mean nothing.

​@Freddielovefootball this is typical paranoia when things change in society, as they inevitably always do, people start imagining extreme scenarios as if they're the natural continuation of the change that is happening, when they're really not. "I could've changed my gender 8 times while writing this" well the only way that could happen is if you're extremely gender fluid, and those are extreme rare cases. The vast majority of people have one gender which reflects how they actually feel inside, what role they feel they can most authentically play in society and so on, and this gender doesn't change throughout their live. What does change for a small minority of people (trans people) is that they realise that gender isn't the one they were assigned at birth and have most of the physical/biological characteristics of, and so a transition needs to happen for them to live their healthiest and happiest lives. Only a very small minority out of this small minority might be "gender fluid" in the sense that they might then at some point see it necessary to transition again, or indeed could do so 8 times a day. I say this as a NB person who knows a lot of NB and trans people, I don't know anyone like that so I can't tell you much about them. But to then say gender doesn't mean anything anymore just because it's more abstract for this tiny tiny group of people, is an extremely exaggerated extrapolation of a particular scenario. The vast majority of trans people want their body and tangible gender manifestation to be a very particular way that reflects their gender identity, and they generally want to stay that way, to the extent that current medicine allows us to. For most of us there's a clear role too that we play in society according to our gender and our physical changes are made in order to comply better with what society expects from and how it reacts to certain genders. In the case of non binary people that isn't then mostly just a made up abstract thing but a case of not being able to fit into traditional binary gender roles in very specific ways, and so we try to ask for more flexibility from society as far as those roles and expectations by expressing ourselves as neither man nor woman, and while each of us might have a unique mix of characteristics from either of those genders, that mix isn't generally subject to changing any more than a cis person might become slightly more feminine or masculine during the course of their lives.

History books 100 years from now will treat this era like now we treat the era of witch-hunts in Salem...or the era when lobotomy was popular...

I'm just sorry I can't "like" you twice!

@@markfoster1520haha me too 😊

lol. Mental illness is more and more common 😊

"I wish I could take a break from these infernal new clothes!" - The Emperor

see a psychiatrist asap

IMO critical theory and intersectionality is just individualism with more steps. But also we have to label everyone and everything.

@@NorthernRealmJackal They are both a set of methods derived from analysis of reactionary movements. Critical Theory has its origins in analyzing Nazism, which in turn was a reactionary movement against Weimar liberalism. It wasn't the critical theorists who labeled, it was the Nazis who labeled. The critical theorists just tried to find out why and on which grounds the Nazis labeled and then started to deconstruct those labels. Which is why critical theorists still play a major role in Nazi conspiracy theories to this day. Intersectionality is the method of working out shared goals between oppressed groups. It's the result of recognizing that oppressions often works systemically and these systems affect several oppressed groups at once. Gender might indeed become a "pointless distinction" once liberal ideals are fully realized, because in a sense the label only became necessary because oppressed groups were attacked for freely expressing their identity. These attacks lead to the naming of the things that are being attacked. Hannah Arendt once said that if you are being attacked as a Jew you have to defend yourself as a Jew, not as a Citizen of the World or with reference to human rights. The freedom liberalism promised means we get to make up the way we live, the things we come up with are not real until we make them.

I think part of the point is, and what separates gender theory from individualism, is that when it comes to gender, you can't simply choose who you are. Yes, to some extent we have free will, but we are also created and limited by the social forces that have made us. When it comes to gender, we don't simply choose to be a man or a woman, or trans, or non-binary, we are formed by the social norms of our society. Most people conform to those norms. But where the is power there is always resistance. Where there are rules, there are always exceptions. Where there are norms, there are always things that subvert those norms. It's not entirely understood how or why people become trans, but what is clear is that they have little choice in the matter. Sometime, for some reason, a person's sense of self attaches to what society tells us the opposite of what they should be. Other times, it subverts society's binary rules completely. Gender does not exist an any objective, material way, but it is certainly real in so far as it constrains and informs how we live our lives, how we think of ourselves, and how we feel and desire.

@@themovingkitchen5238 The same is true for individualism. Prior to the industrial revolution people lived in tighter communities and needed to repress their individualism in order to protect the integrity of the group. With industrialization people moved to cities, had more privacy and somewhat anonymous relationships with the people around them, which allowed for more individual expression without threatening the integrity of social fabric. If you ask me, gender is just what happens when you have several generations of liberally socialized people who grew up reproducing pre-liberal social norms less and less with each generation. We're now around 2-4 generations into that and people start questioning sexual and gender norms. It is the most obvious development ever. Nobody should be scared by it.

@@themovingkitchen5238 I understand the argument, but the more I think about it, the more it sounds like astrology and religion. Anyways, I'm happy to live in a society where people can freely be what they want to be.

My interpretation is that (i) certain people want the freedom not to conform to those social categorisations, and (ii) certain other people want the freedom to conform to those social categorisations even if they "officially" belong to the "other" one. You point out that many people have always historically not conformed with a categorisation ("There are females with a masculine temperament and there are males with feminine temperaments") and, although you don't make this explicit, I think you are stating that that's ok and society accepts that, so there isn't something here that needs to be fixed. Different people have differing reasons why they don't accept that line of reasoning. Overall, I think these all boil down to the claim that they have found that they have suffered oppression, discrimination, a lack of acceptance or limitations on their freedom just to be a bit different.

@@digitaurus These social categorizations are exactly that: social. Which means that the categories are dependent on what the society deems appropriate in terms categorizing other humans at the most fundamental level. I understand your point in terms of allowing people the freedom to identity with what they feel is who they are but the issue is that people do not get to choose their identity. One’s identity is dependent on others. Not on the person themselves. You are a parent because of your children. You are a supervisor because of your job. You are a sibling because of your other siblings. The list goes on…your identity is an amalgamation of all your connections to the social world. The word “conforming” is giving the impression that these categories are somehow oppressive. They can only be seen as oppressive if the people who are criticizing them do not understand what the purpose of these categories are. The purpose is to reduce the complexity of our social interactions. When you have certain individuals claiming what their identities are and insisting that others abide by these NEW claims, it causes more complexity because the identity now becomes something that is ever-changing by one person. I cannot stand behind a doctrine that is creating more complexity for the sake of feeling “accepted”. It muddies the waters too much. If one understands that these labels are made to reduce the complexity of social interactions and are dependent on your relationship with others and the world, then it is astonishing to me how one can buttress this ideology. What needs to be “fixed” exactly? That we have men and women and underneath that blanket category is the existence of some variance based on temperamental differences? If it isn’t broken, then it doesn’t need to be fixed. This entire phenomena in my estimation is creating more complexity. It is not solving any problems. It is only complicating things and we as conspecifics have an obligation to question, speak up and give some pushback when something this radical becomes widespread. The answer cannot simply be, “they are a minority, they are oppressed and they lack acceptance so we need to do what they say so they feel accepted and everyone is happy”. That cannot be the cure. Especially when a cure is not needed.

@@OGTelos Thanks. Do you disagree with my explanation of the trans phenomena? I was just trying to provide you with an explanation. I don't have a dog in this fight personally.

@@OGTelos I'm happy also to give my own reactions to your thoughts if that's helpful. I think Butler would agree with you that "categories are dependent on what the society deems appropriate ... people do not get to choose their identity". I am not a specialist, but my understanding is that the field of research that Butler inhabits recognises an intimate link between language and the creation of "categories ... society deems appropriate". This is one explanation why people like Butler focus so much on language: they believe that if you change the language then you will change society. Of course, it's very hard to change language, and the cause/effect relationship between language and the social categories is at the core of much of the heat. Regarding the word "conforming", some people see the social categories as oppressive and others embrace them. You have pointed out that "categories are dependent on what the society deems appropriate ... people do not get to choose" so I think everyone agrees that these categories are imposed on someone. Curiously, many trans people actually want to be allowed to conform; they want to take on often quite heavily accentuated category standards, just not for their "correct" category. Speaking personally, this desire to conform is actually quite hard to understand; as you point out, society today offers a great deal of laxity within each gender category. But many people seem to feel strongly differently to me. You suggest that the purpose of social categories is "to reduce the complexity of our social interactions". I don't think you mean that this is the sole purpose, but if you do then I would personally disagree. The social category "parent" (which I proudly carry) carries many implications, privileges and obligations with it, in addition to offering a simple explanation of a link between myself and two young women living a hundred miles or so away. I agree that the waters are being muddied by the changes and would suggest that this is the purpose: muddying linguistic waters changes society, in the view of Butler and others. Regarding whether something does or does not need to be fixed, I can only refer back to my original answer. They think something does need to be fixed, you do not. I find myself somewhere in between - if such a position is possible! All best

Sadly i'm not sure how much longer humanity has on this planet... if we keep yelling at each other over this type of crap (instead of just letting people live their lives and also not trying to force people to be respectful) ... all we have left is our own self to worry about

So i will be ww2 german

Little Edit:,, Be the best Version of yourself.

Same 🤣

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I actually couldnt wait for the video to end to read the comments 😂

We starting a flame war in the RU-vid™ comments section with this one🔥🔥🔥

This argument will not end anytime soon and it's the same points from both sides every time tbh

People with AIS are assigned female at birth, despite having testes and XY chromosomes... Expressions like those are describing objective reality. In objective reality there are no exceptions. If there are then you're not being objective. You cannot say "all things are green, except when they're not" because you're not saying anything of any substance or worth hearing.

your preference for “recognize” changes nothing about butler’s argument or the gender discussion. the doctor recognizes sex characteristics and then assigns a sex category to the body usually based on genitalia. butler wouldn’t disagree with this

@@user-pd2kt2dv5i it's not preference, but scientific research and methods. If you are not aware of the difference between "assigned" and "recognised" I recomend watching 5min speech of dr. Grossman. And then try to reply.

Medically she's correct, sex *is* assigned at birth, the doctor literally assigns you a sex based on a checklist of medical criteria. This is a useful distinction to make because of intersex people, some intersex people are born with ambiguous genitalia, somewhere between male or female genitals, the doctors have to make a call as to how to assign that person's sex and sometimes they get it wrong.

@@treeaboo Nope... Sex is established at conception and is observed and documented at birth or before. No, Gender (There are only 2 male/female... That's it) is established at conception and is observed at birth or before. Way too many conflate gender/sex with personality traits and temperament (There are a ton, and none are gender exclusive-- hence effeminate males, butch females and tomboys), and gender roles (Which vary from culture to culture, society to society and country to country--BUT, they all refer to the roles of males and females in those various cultures, countries, and societies... Without exception), as though they're all synonymous and that's a massive error. All women are born female, all men are born male and neither is a social construct, feeling, fetish nor a costume. The main problem the trans activists have is that life is based in objective reality and the trans imagination just doesn't override the vast majority of people's capacity to discern the difference. Your DNA literally organizes your physical body. DNA dictates the production of objective biological differences between males and females. 100% of the population is either male or female, even intersex people. If they have a Y chromosome, they are heterogametic and male. If not, they are homogametic and female. But you knew that because you've actually educated yourself on these conditions, right? Personality traits and temperament (Neither of which is gender exclusive -- hence effeminate males, butch females and tomboys), aren't synonymous with gender or gender roles. There is no internal feeling that is exclusive to men or women (or boys/girls), what makes anyone a man or a woman is being either male or female and reaching adulthood. Their sex and stage of physical maturity makes them men or women, not some "feeling" they have. Believing there is some "essence" specific to males or female as far as feelings go, that can manifest "in the wrong body", is akin to a religious belief, having faith in something that is impossible to prove or disprove. The thing is though, that no one on the "trans" side can actually even explain what this "essence" is, they can't even explain it to themselves yet have convinced themselves that the feeling they have means they "are in the wrong body" - without realizing that their discomfort simply stems from not realizing that they view conforming to sexist stereotypes as legitimate measures of manhood or womanhood. That is why every explanation given of WHY a male "can't be a man, but is instead woman" etc. relies upon listing stereotypical stuff, or, in some cases is completely abstract and refuses to actually provide any explanation of what they mean, simply stating they "know" that what they feel means what they say it does, even though they can't actually provide a definition of it. "It's hard to explain but I know I'm right" is an attitude one constantly comes up against - a religious faith in something they can't define. This idea that the terms "man" and "woman" carry all this baggage, sexist stereotypes, that people need to live up to or feel comfortable with is a complete fabrication coming from the "trans" side. You lot want a term to reflect aspects of your personality as well, you want to create more boxes to put people in, as you won't accept simply just being a man or a woman based on being born male or female (and reaching adulthood, obviously people are boys and girls before becoming men or women), but believe you need this "freedom of expression" to broadcast what sexist stereotypes you feel more comfortable with - thinking the world needs to adopt the sexist view you lot have (you fail to see just how much you have in common with Conservatives). Replacing objective definitions which are based in physical reality, with entirely subjective metaphysical claims, is not logical in any way, is not morally superior, and is demonstrably harmful, not least to female rights and protections, but also to practically anyone that buys into it as it warps people's perception of the underlying issues. It hinders people in their quest for individuation, creating this false narrative of them becoming more "authentic" when the total opposite is true, they believe they need validation from others in order to be happy etc. instead of being encouraged to find more inner strength and resilience with less reliance on how people see them. Demanding to be legally recognized as the opposite sex of what one is, is in no way shape or form more authentic than accepting the physical reality one is born into. To believe we as individuals can have 100% control over our identity in society, what we are seen as by others, in interaction with, and in relation to, society/the world/physical existence is a fool's errand, it is a delusional understanding of reality and existence.

insane how she doesnt even realise

Yes, and so what. This is America. We have freedom of religion.

@@brianiller7104 but not freedom from immorality

@@robertsimmons8249 thats why precisly China , Iran and Russia have stopped entertaining the notion that USA should be the moral compass and police of the world with this nonsense.

What differentiates atheists, agnostics and even moderate religious people from religious extremists is that although we all have strong ideas about morality, the first group mostly focuses that inwards to change themselves. The second group, however, wields morality like a bat to beat other people up. But it's okay, because they'll claim it's not THEIR bat, it's God's... You can't outsource morality to a made-up entity and then claim people are arrogant for wanting to figure out what's right or wrong and act on it. Besides, you missed her entire point because she was explicitly criticizing self-righteousness.

Beauvoir was a pedo

Simone de Beauvoir is from mid 20th century. The scientific study of sexuality advanced a lot in these last decades, but Butler ignores it, and thinks she can take ideas about sexuality out of her head (and the heads of other armchair philosophers who also ignore scientific research).

5:16 the most misinterpreted sentence "one is not born a woman, but rather becomes one" basically means the exact opposite this woman is claiming. De Beauvoir is talking about 'the concept/idea' of a woman as a role in society, not an actual woman (an adult human female). The meaning is that the concept 'woman' is accomplished when females play the role society wants them to: wife, mother, beautiful, carer, passive... That's what de Beauvoir is criticising, not affirming. The book is called "the second S EX" for a reason 🤦🏻‍♀️ because it's about the oppression women suffer because of their s ex, not their gender identity or other made up things. I'm just leaving the comment in case anyone is interested.

@@4651adri if you qualify gender identity as "made up" then I think you may be the one misinterpreting...

@@4651adri Beauvoir never equated "woman" with just "adult human female". She instead spent 800 or so pages exploring the question of "who is woman, and why is she the other?", and used "woman" and "feminine" often interchangeably - which, to be fair, has also to do with the French language. AND she was a major existentialist, while gender transition - defining oneself to live authentically - is pretty much the most existentialist thing one can do.

Love this! Glad you found happiness.

god bless you.... I went to a socialist march here in Los Angeles and I was so happy to have trans people walking beside me. I got a glimpse of a potential future that MLK was talking about. I want to respect trans people... everyone deserves dignity. Keyword EVERYONE

To each thier own. ❤

@@Gundum good for you. So long you’re happy. ❤

Judith has a brilliant take on this. Protect her at all costs

Lol

You're exactly right and radical feminist critics of Butler agree with you. Gender ideology is based in stereotypes and homophobia. It says that if a boy wants to wear dresses and play with dolls that he must be trans, based on the sex stereotypes of our culture. Effeminate boys often grow up to be gay, or they're just effeminate and that's ok. And there are tomboys. In the real world, we know that most men and women aren't GI Joes and Barbie dolls but have a wide range of interests and presentations. You're a man because you're an adult male or a woman because you're an adult female. That's it. Everything else (wearing makeup, shooting guns) is your personality, interest, hobby, etc. that we may or may not associate with masculine or feminine traits in any given culture.

Yeaaa mannn let’s just let go of social norms and allow potentially predatory and mentally unstable biological men into women only bathrooms, sports and spaces. Live and let live ✌️

Yes, Gender theory is and will continue to just confuse the hell out of kids, as they think they need to choose a gender. People have personalities that make them like certain things, period, and that is allowed and should be accepted in todays world. But the current state is that trans people arient being told they are accepted for who they are, which is different from who gender ideologists are telling them what sex or gender they could be.

Couldn't have said it better myself

This is how most 'nonbinary' people probably feel. I myself think we should abolish the idea of 'people being more similar to one another than different'

The algorithm knows you just can’t stop watching the stupidest culture war of our times. I prefer Covid to this trans nonsense.

then don’t

Dude, just prepare for the purge like I do.

Asking the same thing myself...

Same here. I guess I just want to know "other side" so we can better understand each other when talking about these issues. The more I watch their apologists the more I am astonished by their dogmaticism, logical inconsistency and factual and logical errors.

Great point! Maybe we should have used "personality" instead of gender. Before all this, when I was younger, doctor forms asked for "gender" meaning sex. It was interchangeable and meant the same thing. People gave the word "gender" a new definition, but I think much conflict would have been avoided if we just used a different word. "Hi I'm x and I have a female/ male/ non binary personality". Sounds much clearer and easy to understand.

That's what you get with decades of this psuedoacademic drivel

@@ladysensei1487 gender is just one aspect of personality, personality is much more than stuff that is related to sex, so a term like gender makes sense

The concept of Gender as something that is distinct from Sex is extremely new. Like, 1950's new. Coined by people who performed experiments that would today be illegal, and likely lead to a life of condemnation. Go ahead and look up John Money, and/or the history of the word gender.

a slate to its use, i think i see your point but i disagree. a father is a fulfilment of the role. a mother is a fulfilment of the role. both should be encouraged because they are better than the mentally ill or narcisist alternatives with regards to a functioning peaceful society. we all have the capacity to choose to not fulfil our roles but to do so is pretty obviously to our detriment

@@dkillips A father will typically be a certain way on average, and a mother too, but these roles are essentially the same; they are both carer roles, taking on different responsibilities, as it's too difficult to do it all. If the mother is the breadwinner and the father the person who cares for the home, the child is given the same support. Although this is less typical, it doesn't act as a detriment to anyone. If you are a parent and don't fulfil the role of parent in any way, then you're simply a bad parent, regardless of sex. Gender doesn't need to be a part of any of this. In fact, it's worse, because you're disallowing people to do what feels right to them, especially if it so happens that you don't adhere to your sex's "typical" traits. That turns out to be a lot of people mind you; there's more variance of temperament within each sex than there is between them.

I agree with you!! Have been thinking the same way and finally someone said this

I have often heard people defend their sexist arguments with ''men and women are different''. Yes Sherlock, obviously they are, but pointing out some people are born with a penis and some with a vagina doesn't validate claiming women should stay at home and watch the kids, as if they may not have any other dreams or aspirations. Even tho it is theoretically true, men and women ARE different, I always wince when I hear someone say it because 99% of the time they actually mean the nasty, disproven stuff that is sexist. A good rule of thumb is to only focus on the physical sex differences, because it's been proven time and time again that, apart of some hormonal differences, the male and female brain are pretty much the same and think the same. Also, people don't seem to realize how much society influences the way someone behaves. The famous Scully effect was documented when there was a huge surge in women in the STEM field. And that is just ONE show. Then imagine how impactful a millenia of gender norms can influence someone. To finish it off, in most countries, the average IQ is so devastatingly close between men and women, it breaks your heart when you see people put such a huge emphasis on gender.

I completely agree!

dude your just gender non conforming. Nothing worng with it.

Yes! Replace "gender" by "personality" and we are back on our feet.

Well said sir.

I agree with you on gender abolition, but there are many people for whom gender is important and meaningful. I suppose the best path forward here, then, is to allow gender to become split up into more and more sublabels until the meaning and need for such labels becomes obsolete. All this, while at the same time rectifying the gender inequality currently present in our systems. Regardless, I think the most important part is not to understand gender identity and all the ins and outs of gender theory, but to go into the world with an open mind and respect for others.

Same with me, i have zero idea what the ‘alt-right’ is but i already feel like i like them and support them just because people call them facist or nazi

"please don't use fitting words to describe descrimination it hurts my feelies 😢😢😢"

​@@machrider3223oh I'm a mutant, down winders reproduces asexually, It's a form of mitosis we don't have sex we split apart perfect clones, Fizzion radiation has its perks you know

@@demonicademonica8323 use less drugs.

@@machrider3223 for real dude 💯 Tell people to stop drugs, No joke I work in a hospital, It makes my day at taxes to waste my time baby sitting some homeless people detoxing in a hospital,

100%. I'm tired of trans identified people, "trans right activists" and "allies" purposely misconstruing her words.

Correct. First French to English book ( translation) was worst translation ever. They fixed it later but this akward notion on gender still exists.😅

The "body is not a fact" means what you basically described tho

@@jamestank8819 No, by "the body is not a fact" Butler means that bodies(!) are socially constructed. That's applied postmodernism.

Different people feel differently about where they fall on a spectrum of gender. That's the short answer. The idea of "gender" is still mysterious I think but society ascribes certain things to certain genders and therefore if you feel female you might gravitate toward those things that are typically female. I don't think there's anything wrong with that as long as a person doesn't feel forced to adopt stereotypic behavior just to call themselves a certain gender.

excellent point..well said..

and some people do, and I'm grateful to all of them. But does one require radical action from everyone who finds themselves in a position to take it, morally or practically. additionally, pronouns are part of social role - sir or ma'am these are components of social role. I think part of the confusion is with language. When a trans man says he is a man he means "I would like to be treated in accordance with the social role we call man". Man in this sense is being used to signify the social role use of the term -- the fact that we use 'man' to mean everything from obviously socially determined things to the presence or absence of specific body features is absolutely a problem linguistically and causes a lot of strife and confusion. Perhaps we shouldn't do that. But if so, why do we so regularly use the word "man" when chromosomes or gametes have absolutely nothing to do with the situation? Clearly the way the word is used is being used both in situations where biology matters and in ones where it absolutely does not. I am not sure why there is a categorical line between taking on the social role of man except for the pronouns and doing the same thing but also changing pronouns? if someone wants to live the social role of man, up to and including the way men tend to address each other or try to look more like the way men are taught they should strive to look, that's up to him. If someone else wants to actively challenge the categorical lines we put between the social roles of man and woman, and call herself a woman while acting in many of the same ways, and be referred to as she/her, good for her. I don't demand one action or the other, and I hardly see why my demands even matter here anyway. I think whatever our future understanding of gender is can and will have to accommodate both of these desires. What we mean by gender role is always changing, and what we put in or outside of the bounds of any category shifts with society and culture. I'd love to live in a world where there are no gender roles at all, where we treat the sex marker no differently than we treat the eye color or height markers on our IDs. But that is not the world we live in, and I don't want to place the burden of getting there squarely on the shoulders of the people most harmed by this current system. It's not my place to tell them to take one path or another in living their life. Both paths you mention are radical in their own ways, imo, but that hardly matters - people are not obligated to be iconoclasts.

I don’t think that the desire to transition is a desire to be radical or progressive. It’s just a desire to live and present to the world in a way which more closely aligns with your felt sense of gender. Whether it’s ‘radical’ or ‘regressive’ doesn’t really come into it for most people suffering with gender dysphoria.

“To be a woman or man”. Is she talking about biology or psychology? She herself conflates sex and gender. How can sex be ‘assigned’ at birth but then gender is nurtured? I thought that she accepted that biological differences were factual? Is she contradicting herself?

He/she is not cosmic he/she exists. If you are a father you probably met him/her in the adminstrative establishment where the "birth certificate" (or equivalent term) was registered. This day you assigned your child a sex, a first name, a date and so on. BTW Trump agrees: Ex-US President speech on "left-wing gender insanity" The January 31, 2023 "... establishing the only genders recognized by The United States Government are male and female and they are assigned at birth..."

Yes there is lol, You have a penis or a uterus, How do you think a baby human is made, Oh I forgot to ask what type of stork delivers the baby,

Is there a bird in leather, If that the case I'm sccaran

By challenge you mean 1. The same thing I've heard and already explained a million times like some kind of tour guide simply because people expect a explanation for my existence instead of just letting me live, and these aren't simple short topics, it's like giving a whole lecture 2. Really dumb stuff, like extremely dumb stuff, religious bullshit I don't believe in and that should have nothing to do with me, people who don't believe in individual liberty (even though they might claim to be fans). 3. Asking inappropriate questions about my genitals and how I have sex. There's a certain point you just need to mind your own business and let people live and practice their own individual liberty, you know?

@@No-ky3kb Atleast they stopped with the "leave the kids alone" bs.

@@frenchfry4017 Fortunately they'll never stop!

​@@No-ky3kbI'm a gay atheist and a socialist, and I don't believe in gender. Gender cannot be observed or measured objectively (that's why we're told to ask for pronouns), therefore it is an unproven hypothesis. Butler manipulates and distorts almost everything in her video and she never references any science throughout. Her manipulations and lies have inspired terrible confusion in LGB children, she has given license for males to invade lesbian spaces, she is a lazy philosopher, a fraud, and the imo the worst L to have ever lived. Shame on her for all of the hurt and pain her lies have caused LGB people.

Isn‘t that happening? New ideas always try to propose new ideas to the Status Quo, so to everyone else. So it‘s normal that they get challenged.

And psychoanalysis is just pseudoscience.

Nonsense

Bingo

True

@@Dimple_5 You can "be" whomever you want to be, but sex is assigned by reproductive organs, not feelings. Words don't define how you feel, just what you have. Stop making it more complicated than it needs to be. It's no different than race... Is a black person that fits better / feels more at home in a Hispanic culture or white culture no longer African American? No

Perfect! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

have you ever had sex with a biological human?

money is also a social construct, and we've all tried to find a way out

Social construct means that it's a construct society imposes upon you. You personally might decide to disregard it, but others will still have an idea of what 'gender' you are.

@@torginus Just because the society imposes a social construct doesn't determine whether or not that social construct is valid or correct. I deem it invalid and arbitrary. You can impose it all you want, but myself and the majority of the population refuse to adhere to it.

she sounds like bill clinton when they asked him just about anything. ON one hand......

This video isn't going to provide you with a one sentence zinger. Much like race, gender requires cross disciplinary academic study. If you want to listen to what she's saying, she will provide you with an in-depth breakdown of gender and gender identity. This is an expert who has dedicated her life to academic research and sociological questioning. Assuming you know better just because you disagree is insanely arrogant.

@@wynburke It isn't a matter of disagreement. People just want to have it explained to them. Before getting into all the details, what does 'gender' actually mean?

Imagine coming into a video about a subject as vague and subjective from culture to culture as gender, thinking it's going to provide you with a rigid definition.

@@user-vt9xz7vo6x But are you able to offer at least a start? Give us a clue.

I was overjoyed when Simone De Beauvoir was mentioned! She's my hero.

Judith Butler says that parental incest against children is sometimes not a violation. This is “queer theory.” Hat tip to Derrick Jensen for compiling the quotes from Butler (and for his commentary in between the Butler quotes). Here are Butler’s words “queersplaining” why parents raping children is sometimes okay: In her 2004 book Undoing Gender, she wrote, “It is not necessary to figure parent-child incest as a unilateral impingement on the child by the parent, since whatever impingement takes place will also be registered within the sphere of fantasy. In fact, to understand the violation that incest can be­--and also to distinguish between those occasions of incest that are violation and those that are not--­it is unnecessary to figure the body of the child exclusively as a surface imposed upon from the outside.”[1] So here she is arguing that sometimes parent-child incest is not a violation. She also wrote, “The reification of the child’s body as passive surface would thus constitute, at a theoretical level, a further deprivation of the child: the deprivation of psychic life.”[2] This is the same old pro-pedo argument we’ve seen so many times already: if you perceive children who are being fucked/raped by adults as the victims of sexual abuse then you are oppressing and objectifying the child. And she wrote, “So I keep adding this qualification: ‘when incest is a violation,’ suggesting that I think that there may be occasions in which it is not. Why would I talk that way? Well, I do think that there are probably forms of incest that are not necessarily traumatic or which gain their traumatic character by virtue of the consciousness of social shame that they produce.”[3] And there we go again, with the same old pro-pedo notion that it’s not the child rape that is harmful: it’s the social stigma that is harmful. And to bring it all home, she suggests, along with the other pro-pedo queer theorists and anarchists, that prohibiting parent/child incest is in itself harmful: “It might, then, be necessary to rethink the prohibition on incest as that which sometimes protects against a violation, and sometimes becomes the very instrument of a violation.”[4]

@@Memebrain777 your boy Derrick doesn't understand Judith Butler. I know that you didn't begin feeling angry about Judith Butler's theories because you were doing reading about incest, so what is your actual problem, and why have you decided to crusade against her with this nonsense?

​@@Memebrain777So, Queer theory is when.. No querness is involved? Instead, Queer theory is um, let's see... child abuse? Actual brainrot of an argument.

@@Memebrain777Derrick hasn’t done you any favours. Read the whole chapter. She’s not saying what you think she’s saying.

Congratulations! You weren't born with an incongruence between your gender and your sex. How lucky for you. I wish I'd been that lucky, but I wasn't. That doesn't make me unhealthy, it just makes me transgender.

I believe this is a healthier way to articulate it. Personality trait/temperament.

@reachtrev69 The five broad personality traits are extraversion, agreeableness, openness, conscientiousness, and neuroticism. Where do you fit gender incongruence into any of those? Or are you proposing to add gender incongruence as a new personality trait?

@@Kleineganz You are unhealthy. There's nothing feminine or masculine other than the body. If you like dresses, wear dresses, but that doesn't make you a woman, your body does. If you like to work in the army or drive a truck, do it, without mutilating yourself, because truck drivers are not supposed to only have a penis between their legs. But accept what you have. Accept your body the way it is. Act the way you want! You just reject who you are, and therapy is the answer.

youre a woman, you were meant to be one. youre not a man, you will never be one, you cant be. Science dictates this. Yes, society may be cruel and setup behavioral expectations. This is your lot in life. You were born to your parents in a specific country. You can pick your friends, you cant pick your family and you cant pick your gender. Will you be miserable not accepting social norms for a woman. YES YOU WILL. Thats a choice. If youre prepared to deal emotionally with the consequences of people looking at you trying to be a man when youre really a woman, best of luck to you. I dont have to play along with a fantasy. I must live in my reality, the one i was born into. Its LIFE. Embrace it, stop fighting it. Women are different than men in so many wonderful ways. Find a man that adores you for the woman you were meant to be. No woman can love you that way, ever. My first wife so so wonderfully feminine until she stepped onto a basketball court. She never wanted to lose. Its ok to have attributes more closely linked to the other gender, no argument there. It makes you so amazingly unique as the woman that you are.. There is a man out there, right now. He is seeking YOU and everything you are. Let him find you and make you the happiest you can be. Hope is so much more desirable that despair.

Ouch lmao, that's honestly kind of sad I feel bad for the 10k+ people suing them now for medical malpractice though. Best of luck on their way to a good life again.

That is the end goal of this nonsense

you missed the point. It is not about "ignoring" or not "having an age" but rather not assume that perhaps 60 makes you incapable of starting college or being 10 not capable of starting your own business. We have CULTURAL ideas of what people are, can do, and how and these ideas are enacted (performed) and thus not universal nor always constant, since there is the possibility of variation. This is why when it comes to age and let say "violence" the courts determine if they can charge you as an adult, do you show cultural signs of adulthood not in line with the actual age?, etc etc.

@@Omiwhynot You missed the point here that if we started fighting the cultural ideas of age like we are fighting the cultural ideas of gender, the world would be in a very big mess

And assigned. My best friend is intersex yet she was assigned female. This happens a LOT to intersex people. So yes, sex is absolutely assigned

​@@tadesubaru1383 Your best friend has both penis and a vagina? What about animals? Do they assign sex to themselves so they know what roles to perform? The only thing you and your friend get assigned is a "moron" label.

@@tadesubaru1383 intersex people are rare. The exception to prove the rule. MOve on with that stupid example.

@@tadesubaru1383you do realise “assigned” implies it can be changed? Which isn’t true, which means it is observed it can be wrong can be right but it’s observed as we can’t change it.

​@@tadesubaru1383First of all, intersex people are exceedingly rare and for everyone who doesn't fall into that tiny, tiny fraction of people, sex is most definitely and quite easily observable and certainly not assigned at all. Secondly, even intersex people are almost always either male or female, as determined by their genetics. To use them as an argument to support the notion that sex is assigned to people by the outside world is utterly ridiculous.

Yes that’s what assigned means.

@@avacadomangobanana2588 What do you mean by that? The user above just demonstrated that it's not assigned.

but, but, but... isn't that what was already said in the video?

Those abnormalities shows exactly that sex is assigned to some degree. I had a friend who klinefelter syndrome meaning he has xxy chromosomes, I would never have known and nor do we care, his sex stands as male because we overlooked his chromosome difference. He is not irrelevant, he is a living example of the binary not binarying.

​@@flaviusmuntean6391I think there was some confusion about what "assigned" means.

Job application M or F......pretty soon other......explain......OMG......How about M and F. I dont know how to consider that. If someone needed to select other......I would have to consider them not eligible for the job because I would consider them delusional. Is that illegal now?

Lol then don’t watch

@@ht21 Did you not read my comment or did you think I was being sarcastic? I wasn't being sarcastic, that was a sincere comment.

So? This video explicitly puts you in the bag of the mass murdering SS if you don't accept her drivel. Multiple times she calls arguments against her stupid ideas an attack. Castrating and slaughtering the gullible victims of the plastic genitals industry for profit is called freedom by her. Questioning that is called an attack on democracy by her. How can someone be more malicious?

Judith Butler says that parental incest against children is sometimes not a violation. This is “queer theory.” Hat tip to Derrick Jensen for compiling the quotes from Butler (and for his commentary in between the Butler quotes). Here are Butler’s words “queersplaining” why parents raping children is sometimes okay: In her 2004 book Undoing Gender, she wrote, “It is not necessary to figure parent-child incest as a unilateral impingement on the child by the parent, since whatever impingement takes place will also be registered within the sphere of fantasy. In fact, to understand the violation that incest can be­--and also to distinguish between those occasions of incest that are violation and those that are not--­it is unnecessary to figure the body of the child exclusively as a surface imposed upon from the outside.”[1] So here she is arguing that sometimes parent-child incest is not a violation. She also wrote, “The reification of the child’s body as passive surface would thus constitute, at a theoretical level, a further deprivation of the child: the deprivation of psychic life.”[2] This is the same old pro-pedo argument we’ve seen so many times already: if you perceive children who are being fucked/raped by adults as the victims of sexual abuse then you are oppressing and objectifying the child. And she wrote, “So I keep adding this qualification: ‘when incest is a violation,’ suggesting that I think that there may be occasions in which it is not. Why would I talk that way? Well, I do think that there are probably forms of incest that are not necessarily traumatic or which gain their traumatic character by virtue of the consciousness of social shame that they produce.”[3] And there we go again, with the same old pro-pedo notion that it’s not the child rape that is harmful: it’s the social stigma that is harmful. And to bring it all home, she suggests, along with the other pro-pedo queer theorists and anarchists, that prohibiting parent/child incest is in itself harmful: “It might, then, be necessary to rethink the prohibition on incest as that which sometimes protects against a violation, and sometimes becomes the very instrument of a violation.”[4]

Big Think is also Woke and forces female representation in their videos in spite of the scientific fact that females are substantially outnumbered by Males in high IQ occupations for purely genetic reasons, meaning that it is appropriate for Males to continue outbumbering Females as science communicators and that their agenda is ridiculous.

I can almost agree with what u said, but the problem relies on how broad gender actually is. Gender is an identity and people identify as whatever the hell they want. I don't have problem saying that a trans woman is a woman or that a trans man is a man, but I will never believe in what you identify if you're out of one of these 2 gender (Man and woman). And that's where things starts to get messy. Gender Ideology believers like to say that people should treat them by their right pronouns, but a lot of them don't even have a gender to begin with/transitions gender every second. And if you refuse to call that weird guy as deer/deerself (? XD It exists, there is a Twitch user called Ferocious that identifies himself as a deer) because... well, you can't be gender deer, it doesn't exist (You're a human being, to begin with) these gender freaks will do everything they can to destroy your life. That's actually the only real problem with all of this gender ideology thing that a 100% agree. Non binaries doesn't exist and forcing people to deny science to accept someone else's identity is the definition of dictatorship.

​@@pedrovitor5324 the thing is, we have terms already available to describe them. A trans man is exactly what the term states as with trans woman. You don't need to change your beliefs about who should be called what. Once the politicization of this issue dies down we'll forget about each other's genitalia and get back to hating everything else about each other.

So you have your own theory about gender, just like Judith said. Cool!

@@pedrovitor5324 "these gender freaks will do everything they can to destroy your life" is all I need to know about you........ It's not your life that is being destroyed. You talk about dictatorship, yet your words are fascist. Maybe take a closer look at yourself, and what's in your own heart.

Gender is a believe system. It’s what I and only I believe what suits me the best. It’s unfalsifiable. Recognizing that is very important in this debate. If we can live for thousands of years with religion, I don’t see any reason why can’t find a way to accept it in our society.

Nice script, it is for what conservative grifter video?

😂😂😂😂

Yes

Nope. Gender (There are only 2 male/female... That's it) is established at conception and is observed at birth or before. Way too many conflate gender with personality traits and temperament (There are a ton, and none are gender exclusive-- hence effeminate males, butch females and tomboys), and gender roles (Which vary from culture to culture, society to society and country to country--BUT, they all refer to the roles of males and females in those various cultures, countries, and societies... Without exception), as though they're all synonymous and that's a massive error. All women are born female, all men are born male and neither is a social construct, feeling, fetish nor a costume. The main problem the trans activists have is that life is based in objective reality and the trans imagination just doesn't override the vast majority of people's capacity to discern the difference.

@@zachman5150 how are intersex babies explained?

it's the interplay are between personality and the biological sex

no! because then you can't hide behind discrimination laws in order to be a vindictive c***

Their incoherent nonsense is fatally flawed, from start to finish. They inappropriately conflate gender/sex, gender roles and personality traits and temperament as though they're all synonymous-- even though they clearly are Not

Actually yea we can, just asking you to be as respectful and open minded as possible for all of us to have a loving welcoming society for everyone. Everybody sees the world differently. Why be so close the other’s ways of experiencing it. Is using the pronouns that make someone who is equal to you feel more comfortable that big of a demand. In short just try to be nice and understanding. There’s no reason for animosity.:) Nonbinary and trans people existing don’t make your idea of gender less valid and anyone with a head on their shoulder wouldn’t dare argue with that.

I cannot abide people who also don't recognize that when it rains the pavement gets wet. Narcissism rains in " my interpretation is as good as reality " . Who we are in a final way is not the same as biological reality .

@@QuintaJoryal I don't get why. Statements of opinion and fact are of different qualities. You shouldn't need to explain that your view on something is your opinion. It's so annoying to me.

@@wgo523I think this is not obvious at all for plenty of people I also find it trivial and annoying

Yes and no. On the one hand, Butler is directly concerned with a critique of the ontologisation of the empirical, which is why she would never call her arguments "facts". That would be reflexively rather unfavourable, because it would also imply a claim to unquestionable correctness. On the other hand, it is not just a matter of mere views or opinions, but in this respect an ethical postulate, which she also justifies rationally.

So glad you feel "comfortable." 😂😂😂

You just spoke straight facts. This is what happens when you remove God from the equation @@flachrattenmann

sex is not observed at birth. they don’t test your chromosomes or your gonads or know for certain which secondary sex characteristics you’ll have. and sex is a spectrum, not a binary. if it were a binary, intersex and transexual people wouldn’t exist

your growing up in times of high mental illness huni

@@RickyM6666 an under understatement

Good for you

Loser

​@@nedab1067and around people closed minded like yourself, but there is nothing to worry about, man will always want to hate what doesnt compensate them.

That's always the case with these people.

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@@weiserhalunke9168 thats the part Im talking about, the part where she defines gender as sexist stereotypes

@@samely8526 granted i didn't catch that part, that's not what she said, she said it's a mix of personal experience, history, wishes, and so on in connection to gender. She didn't define gender negativly as stereotypes, she described it basically as what humans (choose to) do with their biological sex.

@@weiserhalunke9168 i mean, that really does just sound like a pretentious way to say "sexist stereotypes". how exaclty is a "wish" or "desire" of a woman different to that of a man unless youre relying on sexist stereotypes? Im genuinely asking.

or maybe you just dont understand... nothing wrong with that.

Enlighten us! Name the 1st 3 drawbacks that come to your mind!

@@ruzica1974 the enablement of those in power and control to exploit the desires of the masses to escape from solving their actual everyday issues and instead indulge in the pretense of joining a "noble cause" and thereby dividing society further to convenience their votemongering

@@ruzica1974 the increasing occurrences of trigger responses by those who see themselves as oppressed, the increasing ease at which they get triggered, the increasing lack of restraint when unleashing their emotions, etc. there are right ways to do right things. there are also wrong ways to do right things. just as plundering shops does not serve to push for racial equality, neither do these drawbacks serve gender equality or gender-whatever-you-want

Name few. Please. This can be valuable discussion. And I am not saying this in a sarcastic way. I do believe in having these discussions.

@@juzam6 'Seeing themselves as oppressed,' 'lack of restraint when unleashing their emotions.' Hmmm, are your rights under attack as trans peoples' are today? Are you told that you can't have sex without the potential life changing possibility that that one day could lead to a totally unplanned and unwanted future? Do you not see that your way is not the way for others? If you were facing your rights being removed, you would justifiably consider yourself oppressed. I wouldn't complain about you being down right pissed off about it either.

It's come out that pervert doctors and degenerative actors with a really sick fetish are mainly responsible followed by a wave of online pedophiles whispering in their ears of neglected youth, More and more people are coming out. Happy Straight Modesty Month by the way.

Exactly! Bravo. One sane and intelligent comment on this very unfortunate list of naive and “philosophy wise” ignorant comments.

@@luizalouyoga happy 11 months of straight modesty to you too fellow internet person.

@@PostalFerretWithRum Cheers, mate 🍻

Let's also not forget that if "gender is a social construct" then it is society that says what gender you are. You don't get to pick one yourself.

Great point

no it’s just going to be another moral panic conservatives were wrong about

This is anything but philosophy!

@@JaysonT1 what do you mean?

"Philosophy"? This is just ideology. Make no mistake.

​@@mallorga1965indeed tis no philosophy to be found here the ideology was upgraded to "cult" status somewhere between 2017 and 2020, it's now 2023 and the philosophers have finally arrived to let you know, this definitely isn't a philosophy

FYI women have wombs, the clue was in the name this whole time, Man + Womb = Woman

Holy shit, I forgot that could happen

It does not stand to reason that ambiguity in personality types automatically results in the acceptance of the philosophies being espoused by this professor.

Judith Butler says that parental incest against children is sometimes not a violation. This is “queer theory.” Hat tip to Derrick Jensen for compiling the quotes from Butler (and for his commentary in between the Butler quotes). Here are Butler’s words “queersplaining” why parents raping children is sometimes okay: In her 2004 book Undoing Gender, she wrote, “It is not necessary to figure parent-child incest as a unilateral impingement on the child by the parent, since whatever impingement takes place will also be registered within the sphere of fantasy. In fact, to understand the violation that incest can be­--and also to distinguish between those occasions of incest that are violation and those that are not--­it is unnecessary to figure the body of the child exclusively as a surface imposed upon from the outside.”[1] So here she is arguing that sometimes parent-child incest is not a violation. She also wrote, “The reification of the child’s body as passive surface would thus constitute, at a theoretical level, a further deprivation of the child: the deprivation of psychic life.”[2] This is the same old pro-pedo argument we’ve seen so many times already: if you perceive children who are being fucked/raped by adults as the victims of sexual abuse then you are oppressing and objectifying the child. And she wrote, “So I keep adding this qualification: ‘when incest is a violation,’ suggesting that I think that there may be occasions in which it is not. Why would I talk that way? Well, I do think that there are probably forms of incest that are not necessarily traumatic or which gain their traumatic character by virtue of the consciousness of social shame that they produce.”[3] And there we go again, with the same old pro-pedo notion that it’s not the child rape that is harmful: it’s the social stigma that is harmful. And to bring it all home, she suggests, along with the other pro-pedo queer theorists and anarchists, that prohibiting parent/child incest is in itself harmful: “It might, then, be necessary to rethink the prohibition on incest as that which sometimes protects against a violation, and sometimes becomes the very instrument of a violation.”[4]

@@Memebrain777 This lady, man, or whatever, is among the least intelligent people ever employed by a university.

Right because there’s masculine women and feminine men. But a feminine man is still a man and still will have some masculine traits and behaviors that will never change. It doesn’t matter what society does or if they were told they were a girl from day one and were treated like a girl their whole life. It’s happened. One of the gender theory founders (who was a sick pedophile child abuser) did a study where he did a sex change on an infant boy and his family lied to him and told him he was a girl. But he still had male traits. He was still miserable being confused thinking he was a girl when he was a boy the whole time. He ended up lol himself. Gender definitely isn’t a social construct. Have children and you’ll see it. With little babies and the way women and men act around children. This whole theory is a lie made up by a pedophile. Pedophiles are pushing it on children. It’s disgusting and wrong.

Lol

Revise ourselves to think, speak, act and live sickly to rot! - Jude Butler

The very fundamental principle that Judith stands on is broken. And that broken idea gets hidden behind magical thinking, which is very attractive to people and narcissist's. She radicalizes her idea into a violent act by saying not thinking of gender as fluid, (which is just words in a language and not reality) as the people that are trying to "threaten democracy" or perform an "attack on gender". Her idea is broken at its core, and the has violently tribalized hate methods to cover that up with soft calm language. Oh, when she says society tells you what gender is, and not your body, that's the part that's broken, that's the part that introduces binary and "magical thinking" as real, when our bodies and the earth is real, and our thoughts are just our means of navigating and understanding the world around us. She is in a revolt of reality its self, and is inciting violence by making you think the world or society is the problem and not you, and if you question her thinking you are the problem. Making debate a hostel act, when really debate is the core necessity of science.

​@@AstroSquidthank you

​@@AstroSquidvery well said

I mean you're technically correct, so are you. Titles like 'Mrs.' and names are entirely social constructions, useful ones, but social constructions nonetheless.

@@treeaboo All men are born male, all women are born female and neither are social constructs, feelings, fetishes or costumes. The science shows the natural s3xu@l dichotomy of all mammals as being male/female. Humans are mammals, and they are male or female, respectively. That state is fixed and permanent. If you change the name of an apple to an orange, it doesn't alter the nature of an apple or an orange in any way, and the same is true when renaming a man something else-- like trans. It doesn't change the nature of the man. Women are all born female, and men are all born male, which makes the use of cis/trans intellectually hollow and useless

Like driving within a speed limit.@@treeaboo

a social nutcase

@@treeaboo The information of a personality is encoded in the brain, there is a material, objective reality from which arises the subjective phenomena of social behaviour and experience. Nothing, and I mean, litterally nothing about a human personality is "entirely social constructions." This social construct "theory" is only so widely believed because you can learn all there is to know about it in an afternoon and it easily conforms to political ideology, personal preference and self validation because there's basically no facts, it's not a scientific theory of human behaviour, it's just a bunch of guess work dressed up by careerist essay writers to sound like a real theory to scientifically uneducated people who're already inclined to believe it for personal or political reasons.

I'll go one better: I wish they took out all the b-roll protest footage too. I know we have to appeal to dwindling attention spans, but I wish they could have just put the camera on her and left it there. Everything else feels emotionally manipulative.

Very interesting observations! I agree, it all feels very emotional manipulative.

sadly, yes :/

Great observation! Thanks! Goebbels would have loved this era we are in. All this potential to propaganda! I Bet we would see a lot of Hitler's discourses with environmental epic music. Goebbels believed that music could create a public emotional and spiritual experience competitive with religion. Concert halls with their darkened auditoriums and formal settings exposed the audience to an experience similar of going to church. The music of Wagner was the centerpiece of the new "Aryan" spirituality, aiming to attain the same "impact generated by traditional Christian religious ecstasy and devotion". Not to say she is anything like Hitler! Of course I don't belive that.

@mathiasrennochaves3533 I can certainly see the value of invoking historical context here. I'm told history does tend to repeat itself if we don't understand and remember it. I can even appreciate a little bit that you'd want to muse about hypothetical scenarios of what Nazis would be doing today. We are certainly living in a world where individual actors and organizations with significant resources are trying to influence what we think and feel. I wonder though - genuinely - if maybe you could clarify and elaborate on what you think about this video - maybe even how you feel when you watch it or listen to it? I find it hard to tell if your final comments are authentic or tongue-in-cheek.

Cannibal Corpse - Hammer smashed face

The problem with these sorts of short bite sized quotes is that they are always plucked out of a body of text which strips it of meaning and context. If you really want to understand what the person who stated “the body is not a fact” actually meant, then you need to go and read all of what they wrote. Don’t just assume you understand better a subject based on a short 6 word sentence.

​@@CharlieNoodleslol

@@johnsmith7140 ?

@@CharlieNoodlesbeautifully said.

Our bodies define our biological functions. Not the person we become in society, our personality or who we love. The body is not a fact, it's a tool, a shell we use to navigate the world. But we'll always exist beyond our bodies.

This is what is making this discussion so problematic. First and foremost, you need to understand that gender is NOT a social construct. It is, at best, a social label. It IS performative in the sense that you need to be what you are, but what that is is determined by your body. By which I am not trying to say that whatever body you are born in is what you should see yourself as. Biology is not a perfect machine, and we humans have added all kinds of chemicals to the mix that have increased the failure rate of the already imperfect genetic mechanisms. My point is that you cannot really do anything about what your body, your brain chemistry, your hormones, tell you to be. This means that the question of subjective definition does not arise. You perform your "personal" gender, including, in the worst case, gender assignment surgery, if that is what is necessary for you to feel okay with yourself, then society looks at you and tells you what you are. Where the whole gender discussion is going wrong imo is that these days every freak is eager to claim their own little label, when what they are is actually just a man or woman with a bit of a freak attitude. A bit of atypical behavior or preferences, a certain sexual kink, nothing really worth starting a discussion over. As a social being, the first question you should ask yourself is: am I really that special that the rest of the people should acknowledge that? Do I need to bother them with it, or do I already have enough freedom to live my life within the regular label that is being assigned to me?

@@Volkbrecht I think the point as to whether gender is a social construct or whether it is performative is up for debate. It's not a given.

@@Scarletpimpanel73 surely it is both? any social construct is a consensus on [whatever] that becomes socially 'real' as a result through the performance by individuals... but the origin of that social construct in itself has to arise from somewhere, specifically in first one and then more and more people performing what initially is an innovation on an individual level. it is then always performative and, when it gains some sort of social 'critical mass' it takes the form of a nameable and recognisable social construct that encompasses minor individual variances, trends towards a normative form, and remains 'real' for as long as it serves a sufficient number of people within that society.

@@Volkbrecht Exactly! This motley crew of freaks, etc. give me a headache. What I've realised is how much they are affecting the mental health of society. Now I get truly anxious when I hear the word trans because I think what is the latest insanity I am going to hear. The last I heard and saw was a man claiming to be a trans 'woman', at a rally, asking other men claiming to be trans 'women', to punch out biological women and being applauded for that. How??? These are clearly women hating men who have women envy/jealousy and want to claim woman and womanhood for themselves because as narcissistic men, they have deluded themselves they make better women than actual women. The whole thing is insane.

@@Scarletpimpanel73 A social construct by definition has to be performative in order to exist.

This is a white woman's world, we need to adapt.

@@dunzodonalds Identity politics are actually the thing she’s against. I’d suggest reading around that rather than resorting to petty name calling.

maybe it's not the answer. Maybe people are right when they say that changing the body you have through hormones/surgery/etc so that you can go from one box to another is ultimately futile for some people. Maybe the push to liberate people from discrimination on the basis of sex and gender, when done wrong, makes some people feel like, oxymoronically, their right to define themselves is being taken away- and no matter how far that strays from the original movement, that feeling is valid. But I don't actually think that "people should have the right to change their bodies" and "we should stop gender from defining us" are contradictory statements. I don't think transgender liberation involves trying to "streamline highly subjective concepts", nor do I think most trans people want to. I'm transgender. I have dysphoria. I'm not sure about medically transitioning yet, but I have gone by a different name, used a bunch of pronouns other than the ones I was socialized with, and shrugged at so, so many different people asking me what my gender was and how I knew. I don't know what my gender is! And what I've found, in both trans and cis people, is even when people are very confident in what gender they are, if you ask the average person what makes them a woman, or a man, or a bunch of other things, and what makes them sure- they'll get a little foggy eyed, and you'll get a bunch of different answers. Your very conservative grandmother might tell you it's because she was born a woman, and she's never had a problem with being one. Your transgender schoolmate might tell you it's because he always wanted to go through male puberty, and when he didn't, he knew there was something wrong with him. Your cisgender uncle might confess that, although he's never felt the need to be traditionally masculine, he has always felt like a man- and although others might not have understood that distinction, he knew it didn't really matter. Your genderfluid cousin might tell you it's because xe likes wearing flowery dresses and suits, likes being Mr. and Ms., and likes being pretty and handsome, and when people tried to force xim into one category, xe disavowed all unchanging labels. the fact is that it's very difficult to stop gender from defining you when *so* many things in society do that for you- from primary school lunch tables to sleepovers, from school sports to locker rooms to public showers, from clothing shopping to period pad packaging to advertisements what your sister and brother get for birthday presents, nearly everything you will do in life comes with the connotations of male vs. female, boys vs. girls, pink vs. blue, and somewhere in there, whatever the hell is going on with the boy moms of tiktok. That's fine for some people. a lot of people won't notice, or they'll take it as the way life needs to be in intelligent societies. But others might take issue with that binary. whether it is because they want to sit with the boys and the girls at lunch, or because they feel like those systems are used to oppress women, or because they don't think they were given the manual to those rules, or because they want in on the other side, there are always going to be some people who are very uncomfortable with being told, "this is how your life needs to be, and everyone else is fine doing what they need to do". And, like I've already said, even if it seems like a mere sliver of the larger population, those feelings deserve to be heard. What you're describing isn't impossible- I think it's a good goal! I think a lot people would benefit from knowing that their gender/pronouns/voice/body type don't need to define their lives. But it's very hard to constantly have that other voice telling them that gender is a fact, sex is a fact, body type is a fact, and any and all discomfort with the cards you were dealt makes you stupid and sick. Maybe in a utopian society, gender/pronouns/voice/body type wouldn't define the way you were treated in a society at all, but they do, and since we're social creatures, that does define a big part of your life (unless you live alone in a cave underground, which, with the way things are going right now on the surface, can't blame ya). I think you're right when you say that we should make the best of what we have, but I also think that sometimes, making the best of what we have involves shaking things up a little. A man, trans or cis with a very high voice shouldn't feel like he needs to change his voice to be accepted as a man, but what if he's talked to his therapist and wants to start voice training so that he's treated better? Is that okay? If it is, is that only because he's been assessed by a medical professional? is it okay if he's cis but not if he's trans? if it's not, why? Is trying to change this aspect of his body a way of avoiding addressing his negative self image, or will it help? Should he suck his discomfort up and deal with it to inspire all the other high-voiced men out there? I ask these questions honestly because like I've already said, I don't have all the answers, and I don't pretend I do. These are things that I debate, both with myself and others. Is the right to change yourself the same as the right to self expression? Are those rights inalienable? Does a random lawmaker you've never met who lives ten hours away from you have the right to tell you what parts of yourself you should love, and which ones you should hate? I think people change themselves all the time, both temporarily and permanently. I dye my hair purple every winter because I get bad seasonal depression, and the bright colors make me feel happy. People may start going to therapy because they want a more positive outlook on life. Actors put on costumes, makeup, and even elaborate prosthetics to look like what they strive to imitate. People have their last name legally changed to reflect the relationships they have with the people they love. People have their badly damaged limbs amputated because they don't want intensive, painful restorative surgeries. Cisgender women have their breast size reduced because of back pain, or enlarged because they feel that makes them more feminine. And, most critically to the whole international discussion, transgender (and cisgender!) people use different pronouns than the ones they were expected to, change their names, go on hormones or hormone blockers, and get surgery that chances the shape of their body. All of these experiences are different because we're all different, and we change as a more natural part of life than this whole idea of "gender" ever was. those changes might be difficult. The reactions of the people we care about might hurt. But doesn't it matter if someone wants them, and if it changes an important part of the unique life they live for the better? I don't think transgender liberation comes at the cost of freedom to live the life you want. Humans aren't a set of preset options for gender/pronouns/voice/body type, and I don't think anyone genuinely believes that. I think some people are scared of change- if a transgender woman faces misogyny on the basis of her gender expression, what does that mean for the cisgender woman who always viewed discrimination on the basis of sex? If we broaden and increase these categories and allow people to choose how they express, why they express that way, and what they view themselves internally, that might be scary for some people. And that's okay. It really is. But no one is forcing your children, your friends, or you to act a certain way because of trans liberation. We want you to live your life on your terms, just as we wish people would calm down about the conspiracies they read on Facebook and let us live ours. sorry for leaving an essay length reply on your comment, random internet stranger. I probably misspelled some things, could have worded others better, and I'm definitely missing some important stuff (aren't we all?). But, yeah. Just wanted to put that out there for your enjoyment, criticisms, and discussion, however you feel about it.

The reason doctors recommend trans affirming care is because it's been shown to be extremely effective. The mental health issues in the trans community are well known and in particular the suicide rate being 10x higher than the general population. Trans folk that go through the whole protocol - therapy, then puberty blockers, then HRT, then surgery (when they're adults) by contrast actually have better mental health than the general population. It being safe and effective isn't something to brush aside when the treatment saves lives. Having a more tolerant society is also needed but this isn't an either/or imo

When they said "bodies can be more free to breathe, to move, to love" -- my mind immediately went to chest binders and I was like... that ain't breathing better or moving better.

​@@im2randomghghthat is a lie. There are not long term studies of hormone replacement effects, or surgeries, etc, mainly because they are experimental stuff. You can give your opinion, but do not lie, that's wrong

@@TheScaredLittleScholar omg this is the most detailed, logical and empathetic description I have seen about this topic. I really want to thank you for writing this in such a lucid way. In fact, it's probably the best youtube comment I've ever read :) I am cis-gendered but this helps me understand trans people and our society so much better and helps me be a better ally and a better person.

This is a thirteen minute video explaining basic concepts. She has written extensively on the subject if you want to dig further.

is this scientology?

​@@mikesrandomvideospretty much

@@LaughingStock55 Your DNA literally organizes your physical body. DNA dictates the production of objective biological differences between males and females. 100% of the population is either male or female, even intersex people. If they have a Y chromosome, they are heterogametic and male. If not, they are homogametic and female. But you knew that because you've actually educated yourself on these conditions, right? Personality traits and temperament (Neither of which is gender exclusive -- hence effeminate males, butch females and tomboys), aren't synonymous with gender or gender roles. There is no internal feeling that is exclusive to men or women (or boys/girls), what makes anyone a man or a woman is being either male or female and reaching adulthood. Their sex and stage of physical maturity makes them men or women, not some "feeling" they have. Believing there is some "essence" specific to males or female as far as feelings go, that can manifest "in the wrong body", is akin to a religious belief, having faith in something that is impossible to prove or disprove. The thing is though, that no one on the "trans" side can actually even explain what this "essence" is, they can't even explain it to themselves yet have convinced themselves that the feeling they have means they "are in the wrong body" - without realizing that their discomfort simply stems from not realizing that they view conforming to sexist stereotypes as legitimate measures of manhood or womanhood. That is why every explanation given of WHY a male "can't be a man, but is instead woman" etc. relies upon listing stereotypical stuff, or, in some cases is completely abstract and refuses to actually provide any explanation of what they mean, simply stating they "know" that what they feel means what they say it does, even though they can't actually provide a definition of it. "It's hard to explain but I know I'm right" is an attitude one constantly comes up against - a religious faith in something they can't define. This idea that the terms "man" and "woman" carry all this baggage, sexist stereotypes, that people need to live up to or feel comfortable with is a complete fabrication coming from the "trans" side. You lot want a term to reflect aspects of your personality as well, you want to create more boxes to put people in, as you won't accept simply just being a man or a woman based on being born male or female (and reaching adulthood, obviously people are boys and girls before becoming men or women), but believe you need this "freedom of expression" to broadcast what sexist stereotypes you feel more comfortable with - thinking the world needs to adopt the sexist view you lot have (you fail to see just how much you have in common with Conservatives). Replacing objective definitions which are based in physical reality, with entirely subjective metaphysical claims, is not logical in any way, is not morally superior, and is demonstrably harmful, not least to female rights and protections, but also to practically anyone that buys into it as it warps people's perception of the underlying issues. It hinders people in their quest for individuation, creating this false narrative of them becoming more "authentic" when the total opposite is true, they believe they need validation from others in order to be happy etc. instead of being encouraged to find more inner strength and resilience with less reliance on how people see them. Demanding to be legally recognized as the opposite sex of what one is, is in no way shape or form more authentic than accepting the physical reality one is born into. To believe we as individuals can have 100% control over our identity in society, what we are seen as by others, in interaction with, and in relation to, society/the world/physical existence is a fool's errand, it is a delusional understanding of reality and existence.

😂

I know. Hilarious in its absurdity.

Some folk want to opt out of the human race....maybe to the human walk !

Yep. They should leave sex alone. But they can't and won't.

​@williammkydde whose they? Or are you just gesturing at an imaginary boogy man.

@@panopticon7883 You know, you're part of it. I don't have to explain obvious things.

@williammkydde it's not obvious, I'm genuinely curious, please explain.

@@panopticon7883 Do you call our governments "boogy man"? Are you a human?

dude like seriously did you watch the video? no one denies sex. do you deny gender?

Dude like seriously, yes I watched the whole video, and no a woman cannot BE a man, and a man cannot BE a woman. You can dress the part, walk the part, talk the part but it will never ever BE, no matter how much definitions change. To say otherwise is a slap in the face to all the people out there who have fought for women’s rights, civil rights, gay rights, human rights.

@@DivineSapierGender mostly meant sex till 20 years ago. Are they the International Council of English that they can decide to change it whenever they want?

Well that is what Butler says but then she talks about gender. Try watching the video.

​@@DivineSapier sex: the state of being either male or female in most species of metazoans. In humans, each cell nucleus contains 23 pairs of chromosomes, a total of 46 chromosomes. The first 22 pairs are called autosomes. Autosomes are homologous chromosomes, that is, chromosomes that contain the same genes (regions of DNA) in the same order along their chromosomal arms. The 23rd pair of chromosomes are called allosomes (sex chromosomes). These consist of two X chromosomes in most all females, and an X chromosome and a Y chromosome in most all males. Females, therefore, have 23 homologous chromosome pairs, while males have 22. The X and Y chromosomes have small regions of homology called pseudoautosomal regions. The X chromosome is always present as the 23rd chromosome in the ovum, while either an X or Y chromosome may be present in an individual spermatozoon cell gamete. An extremely minute percentage of humans are either (anatomical) hermaphrodites or of indeterminate sex (or to be more accurate, disordered sex). That does not negate the incontrovertible FACT that there are but two sexes/genders. In order for reproduction to take place, there is the requirement of a female ovum and a male sperm to unite, and because the entire purpose of the gender/sex division of most species of animals is to enable procreation, the sexual identity of an individual is best classified according to the gametes produced by the individual in question. There is no third gamete. Cf. “gender”. Both terms (“gender” and “sex”) originate from Latin words: “genus” (meaning “begin”; “birth”; “kind”; “race”; “gender”) and “sexus” (meaning “sex”; “division”; “gender”). If the reader is curious to know the reason for this term being included in the glossary of “F.I.S.H” (apart from the fact that it is actually used in a handful of chapters), it is because, in recent times, LEFTISTS have been desperately trying to change the meaning of the words “sex” and “gender”, in order to serve their immensely-perverse agenda to destroy civil society with their hateful, wicked, immoral ideologies, especially by promoting the nonsensical idea that a person is able to transition from one gender to the other. gender: the state of being either male or female, and because the entire purpose of the gender/sex division in most species of animal life is to facilitate procreation, the sexual identity of an individual is best classified according to the gametes produced by the person in question. There is no extant third gamete. An extremely minute percentage of humans are either “intersex” (typically referring to those who are anatomical hermaphrodites) or of indeterminate gender (that is, not easily determined by a cursory inspection of the external genitalia), but that does not negate the incontrovertible scientific fact that there are only two genders. As far as we know, there has never existed a single human being with the ability to BOTH conceive a child in his/her womb and, simultaneously, successfully inseminate a woman (or in more disturbing terms, for a hermaphrodite to inseminate him/herself). And even if such an individual has existed, that person would be a combination of BOTH male and female, and not some imaginary, novel third gender. In those rare cases in which a human is born without gonads, the other characteristics of sex/gender would be taken into consideration - firstly, the allosomes (sex chromosomes) found in the DNA of every cell, and then, any extant genitalia, since even those females who have experienced the misfortune of being born without ovaries, for instance, usually have their remaining sex organs intact). Cf. “sex”. Both terms (“gender” and “sex”) originate from Latin words: “genus” (meaning “begin”; “birth”; “kind”; “race”; “gender”) and “sexus” (meaning “sex”; “division”; “gender”). So, essentially, the only significant distinction between the two terms is that the etymology of “gender” pertains to the beginning of things, as can be plainly seen by the other English words that originate from "genus", such as “generic”, “genetic”, and “generate”, whilst “sex” is a scrupulously-literal translation of the Latin cognate “sexus”. The mere fact that the word “genitals” (referring to reproductive organs) is very closely related to the Latin “genus” is further evidence of the assertion that the term “gender” refers to the binary division of human (and of course, many non-human) sexual identity, and NOT to any taxonomy based on emotion, feelings, psychology, or any other non-biological categorization schema. If the reader is curious to know why this term is included in the glossary of “F.I.S.H” (apart from the fact that it is actually used in a handful of chapters), it is because leftists have been desperately trying to change the meaning of the word in recent times, in order to serve their immensely-perverse agenda to destroy civil society with their hateful, wicked, sinful, objectively-immoral ideologies. Until relatively recently, the word “gender” has ALWAYS been used in the etymologically-accurate sense of the term, and even in the former case, predominantly where leftist ideologues comprise a significant proportion of the population. See also “leftism”. If you are truly wise and intelligent, you would surely have recognized several amazing secrets contained within the body of this treatise, “A Final Instruction Sheet for Humanity”. However, perhaps the most secretive secret, shall forthwith be revealed: It is IMPOSSIBLE for a human being to change his or her sex/gender! (You are implored to keep this secret - do not tell a soul!!!) For example, a man who castrates himself and wears a skirt or a dress is simply a mutilated, transvestinal male - not a woman or a female. Similarly, a woman who attaches an appendage resembling a phallus to her crotch and dons a pair of pantaloons, is merely a transvestinal woman with a fake penis between her thighs, and not a man, nor a male, in any accurate sense of the terms. Actually, I would contend that any “man” who excises his reproductive organs was ALWAYS a dickless “man”, metaphorically speaking. 🤪

Great comment!!

@@jennifersmith4864 Shame it doesn't have a source. So it could've come straight from his ass. Also it is an appeal to mockery; just because you can make fun of something doesn't mean that thing is false.

@@mattmorehouse9685 That comment certainly didn't prove the trans activist's narrative to be correct. Do Better. Gender (There are only 2 male/female... That's it) is established at conception and is observed at birth or before. Way too many conflate gender with personality traits and temperament (There are a ton, and none are gender exclusive-- hence effeminate males, butch females and tomboys), and gender roles (Which vary from culture to culture, society to society and country to country--BUT, they all refer to the roles of males and females in those various cultures, countries, and societies... Without exception), as though they're all synonymous and that's a massive error. All women are born female, all men are born male and neither is a social construct, feeling, fetish nor a costume. The main problem the trans activists have is that life is based in objective reality and the trans imagination just doesn't override the vast majority of people's capacity to discern the difference. Now, you know better

​@zachman5150 why do most women have to have long hair? Is that sex or gender? Is that a role or part of an identity?

100%%% ..some.. Trans activists..have so much hatred for women ..it's not women's fault the way they were.born!! They try to obliterate females rights by insisting in competing in their sports..using their spaces...horrific...they even wish to go to females prison's to them them pregnant...talk about travesty and cowardice..

Which is supposed to work both ways god damn it.

Amen to that. In recent months university students in filed petition against several professors because they proposed to reexamine sex change in minors. And some professionals were diciplined or even threatened to lose their licence because they questioned having biological males in women sports. The backlash against transgender is not due to their existence (which they state as a reason) but because of their aggresive activism and emotional blackmails. I heavily supported transgener cause until they started obstructing every debate related to children and women's rights in the context of transgend activism

Respected British anthropology professor, Dr. Edward Dutton, has demonstrated that “LEFTISM” is due to genetic mutations caused by poor breeding strategies. 🤡 To put it simply, in recent decades, those persons who exhibit leftist traits such as egalitarianism, feminism, gynocentrism, socialism, multiculturalism, transvestism, homosexuality, perverse morality, and laziness, have been reproducing at rates far exceeding the previous norm, leading to an explosion of insane, narcissistic SOCIOPATHS in (mostly) Western societies.

But the people who "disagree" with queer people existing don't seem like they are afraid of violence. What about them?

that is the exactly reason that i am a dissident of LGBTQwhatsoever movement, nothing but tyranny.

Yes we need to "observe" the "chromosomes" instead of "observing" these "delusions"

@@michelle247gender has nothing to do with chromosomes tho

​@@michelle247 but chromosomes is social construct, they said.

@@hnr9lt-pz7bn 😂😂

@@Dontdoit_ sex does...and without sex gender wouldn't even exist. They are correlated.

she defines it throughout the entire video. its not really her fault you can't comprehend any word longer than 3 syllables

@@cianllyr oh really? So what was her definition?

@@johnk6598 watch the video for a better and more in depth explanation, but simply, gender is a mix of social norms, family influence, psychological factors, individual preference etc, that culminates in a relatively stable identity

@@cianllyr You made my point for me. You're talking about Gender Identity, not Gender. The first thing she says in her video is that it's all just theory, and all the theories differ - therefore there's no accepted definition of Gender aside from Sex. What they all have in common is that they're trying theorize a made-up concept into existence as though it exists in some objective reality which it doesn't. It's just a self-defined social construct that people like her cash in on.

@@cianllyr There's nothing simply put about what you said, so its not a definition of anything. It’s a meaningless word salad that adds up to “I have no idea” and actually proves my point.

Should say gender assigned at birth, not sex. Doctors assign the baby a gender based on their visible sex characteristics. That’s why you see the abbreviation AGAB and not ASAB.

​@@emmanarotzky6565Doctors don't assign a gender. They observe a sex.

Gender is a completely useless concept that we could simply forget about entirely. There's biological sex, and individual personalities. That's it. No reason to put people with certain traits into buckets we call Gender.

biology 101

@@emmanarotzky6565 They record what the sex/gender of the baby is. That's all. No different than recording how many fingers the baby has. That isn't assigned, it is observed and recorded. For many kids, this is observed and recorded via ultrasound. I don't know where this whole "assignment" term is coming from. It is nonsensical. Many babies are born without a doctor, oh, shoot, where they not assigned? Silly word games.

Hello! It's a blessing to hear you had loving parents. What do you think of adults (20s up to 80s even 90s) who come out as transgender and choose to transition, even late in life?

@@johannpaoloclarchaves2751 As I said: these people deserve all respect and support. I defend the rights of transgender people, I also defend that children must have some guidance not to feel they were born in the wrong body. I thank the universe that my parents did that, and I wasn't raised by some extremist progressive or conservative freaks who would have abused me psychologically. I think both extremes border child abuse. Watch the documentary I mentioned (made by a progressive documentary maker, by the way): 5-year-olds will tell you one day that they are boys, the other day they feel like girls... and the next day they want to be cats. That's what it is like to be children. You cannot take the word of 5-year-olds seriously and transition them into cats because they tell you they feel like cats. But that's what genderless education is doing to kids in Sweden: they never tell boys or girls that they are boys or girls, they are completely free to decide: that's increasing the rates of gender dysphoria, depression and suicide rates in kids. It's painful to watch children suffering without knowing how to decide who they are. So I think the LGBT movement needs a bit more balance in this issue. It's too early to do these experiments with kids.

Well said

I was told that I am a girl. Didn't help at all. Now I have full version of identity crisis at 23 y/o. Should I say to my parents they didn't love me enough just because I don't feel like being binary is the answer to who I am? And no, it's not attention seeking. I don't plan to come out in real life. Its just who I am. Someone who is internally open to possibility, that there is more than being female or male. That people are more than sex.

⁠@@adnuserg Of course people are more than sex. Don’t be distressed about the identity crisis, it sounds like you have a rich and thoughtful inner world and it might just be a creative superpower.

No respected expert on the subject agrees with you. Facts don't care about your feelings.

@@TransHippieWhen Judith Butler and John Money redefined gender from biological sex to how you feel inside, they inadvertently created a new religious rite.

@@TransHippie Nope. It is a FACT that the word gender was used interchangeably with the word sex for the majority of the past 50+ years. You can pretend that this isn't the truth but it is. But... trans are great at pretending, right???

@@andretorres8452 Society is done with the BS. We are not going to change how I speak and pretend there are more than two genders. Every other mammal only has two genders. Even non-mammals have only TWO GENDERS! Humans are not a magical exceptions now matter how much you want to pretend.

Distinguished professor is a specific title given by certain universities, I don't think they meant it that they are some great person, it's just a title (insert Wikipedia entry for "Distinguished professor", it seems that I can't send links). As for Berkeley, they do seem to use this title (if you look up "Judith Butler distinguished professor", there is an entry on the Berkeley website affirming that). As an example, Brian May, my favorite guitarist, has the title of "Most Excellent Order of the British Empire" - I suppose Britain likes ostentacious titles, but regardless, I think titles are neat. Also, the thing with the word "they" is that, it's in the linguistic category of, specifically, third-person pronouns, while "me" is a first-person pronoun. In something like Italian, for first-person pronouns, there is "il mio": mine (masculine) and "la mia": mine (feminine), which are gendered first-person pronouns. But in English, only third-person pronouns are gendered, so first-person pronouns ("me"/"mine") are gender-neutral, and "me" (as in, "let me start by saying") falls outside of the category of third-person pronouns like he/she/they. Second-person pronouns ("you"/"your") are also gender-neutral in English ("il tuo"/"la tua" in Italian). In They want to be referred to with "they" or "them", which are historically designated as gender neutral third-person pronouns, but there would be no point in inventing a new gender-neutral first-person pronoun, since "me"/"mine" already are, which is "they" and "me" are not necessarily in direct conflict. Also, interesting thing, usage of singular "they" goes back to the 14th century, while plural "they" comes from the 13th century, so they are quite similar in written age, which many people don't know. Hope you find this interesting, Edward

​@@pika_speedone small correction, in English, "mine" is an adjective not a pronoun. In other romance languages, many words of different types are changed to fit the (perceived) gender if the thing they are referring to

Thank you for responding to this bad-faith person, although I doubt they are interested in engaging. I found your insights fascinating.@@pika_speed

@@ThePoodle You're right, I meant "my" :)

@@wynburke Happy you found it interesting!

Spoken like a person who has never had problems with people refusing to acknowledge their preferred XYZ.

@@Giby86 you can think of me and call me whatever. No sleep lost.

should i then treat black in a certain way because they're black ? is that okay?

@@Giby86 Spoken like a person who doesn't know how to critically think about this situation holistically and instead uses a rhetorical fallacy as their argument. @AA53057 That's well said.

@@portraits_of_bliss let me try that then.. we haven’t had a dialogue for me to believe I was shutting down any of your opinions from a premise of my statement. You accused me of not knowing what it’s like for someone to deny my request for them to treat me a certain way. I definitely do, as do most people by some point. I spent all my 20s being insecure about my appearance with social anxiety. It stunted my growth as a person. I don’t know what it’s like to have gender dysphoria, but the scope of my original comment went beyond gender identity and was just my 2 cents of a truth I spent over a decade suffering through. If that can help someone with what they are going through then fantastic. There is nothing wrong with wanting people to respect a request that you make(how people refer to you), and in certain environments such as school or work, people adhering to that is essential and enforceable by the establishments we reside in. Said establishments shouldn’t hire or treat people based off labels but from character and competency in a functional meritocracy. We cannot control other people’s freedom of expression. If Bob wants to call Sally a lint licking cootie queen behind her back or to her face during a run in with each other at bingo night, he is free to do so. Discrimination is real, it is also human nature, and saying so, doesn’t justify the act. That is why we have HR and cultural shifts towards more tolerance, which is sorely needed in an internet connected, non homogeneous society. The clashes I see in the realm of gender is more of an argument of semantics and how that pertains to what is considered fair and safe for all parties. Besides trolling, I would be surprised if most people that disagree with you are doing so with malicious intent. Most people now days can identify discrimination and do not condone it. Edit: I thought you were the other person lol. I’ll keep this here though.

Yes, yes, to the mental and moral degradation that falls under the name of "freedom". You are really ignorant to the point of being affected by one video.

Here she is being prescriptive, rather than revelatory. Before Butler got paid attention to, the focus was on BEING YOURSELF, and expressing yourself how you wanted to. Being yourself isn't what she's saying - and that's why what she's saying is dumb.

In other words, "Change your opinion to MY point of view, because it is the correct one"

For Butler 2+2= what ever she wants it to.

@@johnsimspon8893 It's not even close to logic bro it just says nonsense with some rudimentary evidence

Nobody claimed that lol

Yep

Brutal but, you're right.

of course, and that is correct

that is exactly how i live my life

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