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@JaneCaro Money is another effective motivator

Yes, there are some decent people if faith, many of them, in fact, but I completely agree with the view that the only force on earth who can get decent people to do terrible things is religion.

@DylanDyylas Men arguing with other men a out what women are and need. None listening to women

trans people are more likely to be victim of sexual abuse, not the perpetrators of it less than .01% of mass shooters are trans less than 1% of people regret transitioning every argument maga makes about trans people is bullshit and you are brainwashed if you believe any of it

@RayAlexWilliams The concept of woman is useful as it gives us the words to speak our oppression If it includes men who" pass " it becomes useless at best and dangerous to womens rights and safety

The question, “What is a woman?” admits several layers of analysis: First, collectively, how do we define the English term, “woman,” in various social and legal contexts? Notice this is not strictly a scientific question. Science uses validated constructs like “female/male” to study empirical reality with collective and public operational definitions i.e. scientists for the most part know how to measure femaleness/maleness in validated methods. But notice the first question involves a philosophical choice: we have a choice about whether to define the English term “woman” to refer to the same thing as the scientific construct “female.” Historically, in English, this IS how the word was used implicitly. Because it was a useful way of using language (and still is for the most part.) The pragmatic school of philosophy asks the fundamental question of not whether a definition or concept is “true” but whether the concept is useful: the truth value cashes out in whatever is useful for your given context. And clearly the scientific context is conceptually distinct from social and legal contexts, though they obviously intersect in important ways when thinking about practical social policies like sex segregated spaces. But this is why the TRA vs GC debate is essentially pointless: each side screams at each other about “facts”; but we are not going to conclusively settle the debate about what is a woman by going out into the world with a microscope: it’s fundamentally a philosophical question which necessarily must remain unsettled as empirical facts never truly settle actual philosophical questions. The key question for society going forward is: are there new pragmatic contexts for having an additional (but not replacement) definition operate in society to accommodate passable transsexuals who blend pretty well into certain female social roles?

@RayAlexWilliams No The key question is - why do men get to set the agenda and the questions? What is a woman is a question like what is water . It is what it is ...until men want to be it

@paulodetarsog No . Men want to be in womens toilets

Todo mundo aqui concorda que isso resolveria boa parte desse debate?

@thelizcarr This argument assumes suicide and assisted dying to be the same thing . The crucial difference is the former is a choice to end your life while the latter is a choice HOW the end of your life goes. In Australia VAD is only available to those in recognised end stage condition

A reminder that opponents of assisted suicide are not: pro suffering evil or the devil or cruel selfish or indifferent lacking experience in pain, illness or death without compassion inevitably religious uninformed As a disabled woman, here's why I oppose bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

@ERN_Malleyscrub @JaneCaro Id say we all get out share of abuse harassment and time wasting nutters when we engage on social media . I know I certainly do

@leoniebc @JaneCaro Oh…. I see. My understanding is Ms Caro gets more than her share of abuse, harassment, time wasting nutters posting crap. The hurley burley of social media is fraught with occasional chaos, misunderstandings, confusion.

The racism on display on this site after the Anzac booing today is truly disturbing. I am just blocking them, but it is awful that such moronic attitudes feel emboldened to reveal their hideous stupidity. The politicians & billionaires who enable this should hang their heads.

@QuietXPerson Would be equally as hideous if someone registered their dog as a woman entrant

It’s utterly risible of “gender critical” people to suggest that fairness in women’s sport is being undermined by allowing transgender women to participate as they choose in a public fitness event that allows dogs and prams.

@ERN_Malleyscrub @JaneCaro Jane i formed me she was muting me before she made the announcement she was leaving X the first time . I admit I'm just assuming she still has me muted since she doesnt respond

@leoniebc @JaneCaro You can see if you’ve been muted ? ?!? All the technical stuff…… I’m as much muter as blocker…. Hmmmmm….. 💡🤷🏻🫤😵‍💫😵😬🫣

@Gaynotqueer1 It's Trans Ideology that demands pronouns be observed according to the individual desire . The rest of us dont care Pronoun observation and policing is part of Trans Ideology

Wow I hadn't thought about it that way.

@dapsyfaj @StrongManGuide That's cause men ask that -women already know This guy (like most)isnt asking what women want .He's asking - what does this guy have that he beats me She left him for her own reasons She went to the other guy for other reasons Learn the distinction & you're in you're way

@StrongManGuide Nobody has been able to answer the question What does a woman want

My wife left me for a man who earns less than I do. Drives an older car. Smaller apartment. No status by any external measure. I spent six months trying to understand it. Then I spent one afternoon with him. And I understood immediately:

@StrongManGuide She didnt leave you for him . She left you for her own reasons. She went to him for other reasons. Once you learn the distinction between these two you will be finally on the path to growth .

@StrongManGuide The rest is just mansplauning

@JaneCaro Its the nature of social media Jane . Its not the same in real life

This is disgraceful. Propagandising over the death of a much loved broadcaster. Anti vaxxers have no decency, as well as no interest in facts.

@Heccles94 Allowing girls and women spaces of their own without boys or men is showing us respect .

How on earth is banning trans young people from brownies and trans woman from park runs protecting women? It isn’t. It’s hatred and bigotry pure and simple. There is no difference between transphobia and homophobia - both are utterly despicable and have no place in society.

@EllieCumbo @glosswitch It wasn't a newish concept then It was a newly talked about concept . Im a similar age to this man and dont remember history classes talking about suffragettes or germane Greer that much . We had to find out about it through underground lesbian publications

Alan Cumming was born in 1965; he was 25 in 1990. No, feminism was not a "newish concept" when he was "a young man".

@staylorish Anything that works contrary to that goal (ie accepting some men as women cause they say they are ) is not feminism

@staylorish Feminism has never been about equality . Its always been about visibility and legitimacy as human . Men have often found this either hard to understand or deliberately refused to accept

Alan Cumming on how women have ruined feminism for him.