Music Banter - View Single Post - Rishi Sunak says 'a man is a man and a woman is a woman'

jadis · 11-01-2023, 11:57 PM

The other stuff (the interplay between our bodies and our culture, shall we say) is far too vast and interesting to require a de-finition. It's pretty much in-finite because it's the very stuff of the ever-shifting history of us thinking about our place in the world.

Part of that history in the past few decades is the elevation of sensitivity over truth, which we more and more see is NOT the inoffensive and slightly goofy thing we've been told to believe it is. This is why I think it's paramount to not give an inch to people who want to compel speech and make us much more confused about basic reality than we need to be.

There's infinitely more room to think about the more interesting stuff that escapes straightforward categorization in a liberal democracy without compelled speech than in a world where there are legal consequences for forgetting to refer to some aggressive dick as a "she".

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jadis Music Addict Join Date: Jun 2021 Location: dont ask Posts: 1,232	The other stuff (the interplay between our bodies and our culture, shall we say) is far too vast and interesting to require a de-finition. It's pretty much in-finite because it's the very stuff of the ever-shifting history of us thinking about our place in the world. Part of that history in the past few decades is the elevation of sensitivity over truth, which we more and more see is NOT the inoffensive and slightly goofy thing we've been told to believe it is. This is why I think it's paramount to not give an inch to people who want to compel speech and make us much more confused about basic reality than we need to be. There's infinitely more room to think about the more interesting stuff that escapes straightforward categorization in a liberal democracy without compelled speech than in a world where there are legal consequences for forgetting to refer to some aggressive dick as a "she".