How Gender Theory Self-Destructs
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If you want to describe modern Gender theory, you should cite people like John Money, who argued, “Gender is a social construct.” Or Judith Butler, who said, “Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.” These leading thinkers of the theory all seem to argue that gender is a social convention or social construct, rather than something grounded in objective or observable reality. And because they are conventions, that means that they must be voluntarily participated in. No one should be forced to adopt or participate in social conventions.
And it’s on this basis that gender theorists can argue that traditional Christian notions of gender, based on traditional beliefs about the nuclear family are social conventions that should not be imposed on people who do not conform to them.
But if that's true, that means that conventions and practices inspired by gender theory are, on their own view, also social conventions which is why they have no more grounds to force people to participate in those conventions than conservatives can force people to adhere to traditional conventions.
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If gender is a social construct why get surgery to look like the different sex? Why buy into sexual stereotypes if they’re constructs? It’s a circular argument.
It is absolutely a circular argument.
It is shown as such, none more clearly as when asked to answer the question, “What is a woman?”
The answer from such types is typically, “A woman is someone who identifies as a woman”
Yep. It's fundamentally contradictory. _"Gender is a social construct, but gender identity is innate. And it should not be medicalized, but it requires drastic medical interventions."_
SOMEONE CAN REASON
@@ameliaannhouck2670 But reason is a logocentric tool of oppression, remember.
Exactly.
It really never was about making people feel comfortable, it was always about the dismantling.
All hail postmodernism am I right
@@thomasine_ Postmodernism = barbarism with a fresh coat of paint.
That is the explicit purpose of critical theory.
It was about making the majority feel uncomfortable--which made a tiny minority feel more comfortable.
The issue is never the issue, the issue is always the revolution.
People say that social conventions are a construct. So they reject the construct. Then they create a new social construct
This video really opened my eyes to see this hypocrisy
Yep. It's sociology 101. Do away with the old status quo and then make a new one.
Irrelevant. It’s the new reality.
Originally we used social constructs to give validity to observations. Therefore, we needed new names. Now, we're observing abnormal facts with a lot of attention in the media, and we conclude: it's a social construct...
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No, it's not. I reject that "reality". You can't equate the construct with reality. A construct, by it's nature, is malleable. Reality lies beyond the construct. You can call your construct the new "reality" all you want but it doesn't make it so.
If gender and sex are completely unrelated, why do people affirm their *gender* by getting *sex* reassignment surgery?
Good question!
nobody said gender and sex are completely unrelated
@@poetrait941 yes that is. Literally EXACTLY what gender activists have been saying for years. I used to be a far lefty and watch lots of breadtube content, this IS precisely what they are saying. Stop lying and gaslighting.
@@poetrait941That is exactly what they are claiming.
Trans bulliesalso don’t like the terms same SEX attracted & homoSEXUALITY, it’s because sex is a word based in objective biological reality. Their definition of „gender“ is a useless nebulous thing that has either no meaning or can mean anything they want.
That is such a great point. You don’t have to participate in my traditional “gender construct” and therefore, I don’t have to participate in yours. Brilliant!
Ain't it?! 😅
It is and the convention of each of us minding our own business was once ours, but now you can get fired for an impression that somebody has that they identify as being offended by what is nothing in particular from your perepective.
@@qwerty90615 It is wild to be held to account for the shortcomings of a stranger.
When gender identities/pronouns/etc. come up I just say now that I don't go by that, I just go by biological sex. When people ask why or get mad, I explain that the concept of gender has been too diluted and fluid to mean anything anymore, but bio sex is fixed and what matters. Pisses some people off but they brought it on themselves.
Well expressed
So, do you go through a process of determining a person’s sex before you decide what pronouns to use on them?
@@MoonshineH Well, it would probably be quicker than going through the process of determining a person's 'preferred pronouns' and having them explain all their neopronoun nonsense to me, lol-- but I'm not obsessed with pronouns. The way I see it, pronouns I use are not 'your pronouns', they are MY pronouns FOR you, and I'll decide what I'm using. Pronouns were never meant to be overthought, I just use what pops into my head subliminally based on what I see, I don't stop to ponder them. 98% of the time it matches up with biological sex; if it doesn't and I get a pronoun mis-matching your bio sex, I don't really care. If you think I've 'misgendered' you because I didn't use your 'preferred pronouns', likewise-- I don't care.
@MoonshineH, everyone does. It's called intuition
@@joshuawadsworth6417 Neither of the things you just said are correct.
I gave up trying to reason with them.
I don't want to break your hopes on them but sometimes I think nothing is crazier than expecting a madman see reason.
Nor a parent trying to retrofit a decision that caused their child harm
The reality will fall upon these people In roughly 2040 when they realize they can never feel the joy and hardships of having children and being a family.
@@properitum9091That makes no sense.
I dunno, bro… I was fully indoctrinated and saw the light through conversation.
I started to see flaws in both my own and others thought processes and pulled myself out of it.
I’m grateful to those who weren’t willing to admit defeat.
It’s like arguing logic with a woemyn. Better for your sanity to just walk away … 😎
My wife comes from Mexico, and the popular acceptance of "gender theory" is, by far, the most confusing thing about the US that she's experienced. It's creeping into Mexico, but not to the same extent.
I can only imagine. One of the things that enabled gender theory to sail as easily as it has in the English speaking world is that English has for all intents and purposes lost it's genders.
As a Latino myself, it's sad how much progressive American culture is creeping into ours due to social media and emigration
The US exported gender theory (among other things) to latin america, I remember perfectly, it started in the US an then a week later, it started being the most important leftist position in my country.
@@kinsmarts2217 I think the left is always going to get on board with whatever nonsense, but in the US it's reaching a point of wider acceptance. In Mexico at least, the vast majority still recognizes it as bunk.
@@El-Harto Yes, what aim saying is that the reason neutral pronouns is even a thing in Mexico is because the left bought whatever the US is doing, regardless of language, culture or reason, its completely foreign.
So Gender Theory is self-contradictory when it seeks to impose one individual‘s conclusions on everyone else. Here is some more basic deconstruction of gender theory that for some reason I haven’t come across anywhere else: ”I feel like a girl,” says someone with a penis. It is, as usual, the use of ambiguous language that allows for this critical error. I argue the word “feel” is slang. It could mean sensation or it could mean emotion. The sensation of being a girl would have to involve a physical sensation associated with female anatomy or physiology, but that is by definition impossible. The word emotion implies that men and women have different emotions, but I have never heard of that! So precision in speech renders this phrase meaningless. Moreover, from a phenomenological perspective that ordinary people should be able to appreciate, how can anyone truly know what anyone else is sensing/emoting? Asking the question leads to the answer: in practical terms, one hopes that we can have empathy, but in more precise terms it is literally impossible for men and women to know the existential state of the other fully enough to be able to claim it. Gender theory seems to have no credible intellectual foundation.
In a way this is the doing of toxic feminism, and to a point hyper masculinism of decades prior. For some reason people in America though you are allowed to only perfectly represent the archetype of your gender. But if you look at cultures over ages, that's not the case.
Ever since at least the 14th century, the word 'gender' has been properly recognized and used as a synonym for the biological sexes, and this understanding/usage was made even stronger in the 15th century. As such, this rightful understanding of gender must not be surrendered to the “transgender” movement since they and their fellow travelers use their preferred yet still false definition of gender as a social construct and/or feelings a person has that may or may not coincide with their biological sex/gender to further promote their despicable agenda. We must always insist that gender and biological sex are synonymous to further demonstrate the folly of the "transgender" movement that proudly proclaims biological sex and gender are different.
@@docverit2668 Question: If gender and sex are synonymous, then why use two words?
Emotions are controlled, regulated is a better word by hormones, chemicals, and electric-magnetic changes. If you believe that you can have a (closer to) girl brain in a male body then this is possible. More likely they really feel more comfortable in the female role, and in female company, relating to the world as female. Don't get confused between aspects of gender, there are a significant portion of transgenders who transitioned under the Dutch protocols rather than the new American affirmative care model, who do have significant improvement in all sorts of life satisfaction, gender role criteria, and crucially, they all spent significant time with psychiatrists working through the what is a girl question. The bit that has changed is that people with other conditions are using transition as a treatment for anxiety, autism etc and doctors are clipping the ticket without having done the work to see if the treatment is appropriate.
@@jeremyadrian233 Question though. Aren't you just a more feminine men then though?
And still - we hadn't ever had that strong difference between genders, in fact if you factor in feminism and red pill it starts to look like mass-hysteria in a form of paranoia, in the past. I actually digged into the topic and it appears that factories and uniformization of fashion, along early 1920s romance with nazi ideology is what created that man as a hypermasculine and female as hyperfeminine [ and only suited to kitchen ] narrative.
And some of things that trans are saying do make sense. It's just that maybe the problem doesn't need chopping off body parts and going on hormone treatments to be resolved and instead we should actually return to less extreme male vs female roles.
As it is whole culture wars are based on the fact that there is just too much tension in those topics - they shouldn't be enforced so much and never used to be enforced so much. Like just look at even cowboy's men fashion and compare how bland fashion is today ( not to mention times of old when men, just like women, did wear very decorative clothing, I think that's one aspect at the very least where I agree with woke people )
At my great age of 90, I would say that there are two genders only, but people vary in whether they are more girly or boyish in their behaviour according to their balance of hormones. No one ever had problems with this years ago. +
To be precise about language usage, gender should not be conflated with biological sex. This is the root cause of this issue. There are two biological sexes, and 4 genders - masculine/ feminine/ androgynous and undifferentiated. You can be a feminine male or a masculine female. This has been around for ever. Youngsters today think they have invented the wheel, but have confused everyone by going off on crazy tangents by thinking that males can actually become females or vv, when really it is males trying to be more feminine (although this then raises the question as to what exactly feminine and masculine traits actually are). It's a mess.
@@forestgump99
Yet....the French use gender in language in a way that reflects the binary nature of gender. Even androgynous describes a being where the gender is blurred between male and female, where both sexes are seem to exist in one person, which STILL reduces it to the binary. Undifferentiated exhibits very little of either sex, still 2 and therefore, still binary. Both terms have their uses but it still revolves the binary nature of sex and gender.
In French the 'thing' is not proscribed a gender, rather it is the word for the thing - a chair is not feminine, it is the word for a chair that is. German goes one step further and has neuter gender - your argument would suggest this isn't a 3rd gender, rather the absence of gender. But that is in and off itself a gender. In a way it is immaterial, the important issue is for the words gender and (biological) sex to be used precisely and unambiguously. Conflating gender with sex is the root of this issue/ problem@JackHaveman52
@@forestgump99Gender is basically a conceptual way to see the divide between “the masculine” and “the feminine” so I agree to some extent. Kinda like how China (I think?) has concepts like yin/yang, which means both halves equal the same whole. Hopefully I’m coming across right, and I do agree with you a lot of your comment
@@JackHaveman52
EDIT:
For anyone wondering, I looked it up again, and I was almost correct. But, it's actually genus, which then became gendre, and then we get words like genre and gender. So close enough.
I think gender comes from a French word that is similar to “origination” so gender would be linked to reality of your conception.
We're on the same train of thought, I wrote this yesterday on Facebook:
If gender is a social construct, this means it changes over time and according to different contexts, cultures and social trends.
Gender roles and stereotypes definitely fall under the category of social construct, but gender itself isn't just a role or a stereotype. If it were, it would make no sense to "identify" with a gender.
Your identity cannot be based on a loose, ambiguous concept that is at the whim of trends and social norms. Identity implies stability and consistency, a solid foundation on which you build an understanding of the world and your place in it, and which you use as a guide for small and big decisions in your life.
The irony is that those who seek their identity in such fuzzy and ill-defined concepts as this new flavour of "gender" tend to do it with the intent to reject social norms, but gender, by their own definition, is rooted in social norms.
I personally don't find joy and fulfilment through my identity as a French man, or as a white man, or as a straight man, or as a musician or any of the other attributes that make up my person and my life. I find joy and fulfilment through my relationships, wherever and whoever they are. I find belonging among those who overlook my faults to share their time and stories with me. I find my identity in the peace, joy and growth I am able to promote in people around me. I don't need any of these silly labels.
I have always been uncomfortable with people enabling body dysmorphia. Then I talked to trans people online and there are common themes in M-F, childhood emotional trauma, beliefs that masculinity is toxic and autism. For many it feels like they are blaming their bodies instead of dealing with their emotional issues. I researched looking for evidence of biomarkers of transgender, in RCT studies, there is none. Small differences relate to sexuality, not gender ID.
The bigger problem: fooling tons of people that social validity is the basis of their identity. If someone else has to give you something to have validity, they will be able to take it away on their terms.
@@energyfitness5116 that's a fantastic point, thank you!
I have noticed a familiar problem that you and I both have. It is the ability to WRITE what we have to say in "long hand writing"
I speak for myself when I say that I find myself, constantly, trying to write in "shorthand" in order to appeal to the dimwitted of our society
Maybe, just maybe, there are enough of us out there that are capable of understanding our "longhand"! People like you and me and him and her
Maybe?! 😒
Personally, for me, I get scared about writing too much out of fear of my targeted audience not understanding me
Do you feel that?
Do you hold yourself back from writing more? Do you do this in order to try to reach your enemy with your message, whilst knowing how dimwitted they are?
Do you shorten your messages????
Do you know that your enemy is stupid? Do you shorten your messages in order to cater for that, so your message may get across to them?
@@energyfitness5116YES!!! 👍
Well said.
C.S. Lewis in Abolition of Man" p29: "A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional or (as they would say) 'sentimental' values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process. They claim to be cutting away the parasitic growth of emotion, religious sanction, and inherited taboos, in order that 'real' or 'basic' values may emerge."
If you claim to be 100% stoic and rational but still have value-judgment, you're lying.
Surely you can't live without any value judgements.
@@robynmarler1951 No, you can't be 100% stoic. If that Vulcan *gets out of bed in the morning* then he has some non-stoic reason for doing that. He has something he *wants* (with his emotions) that he gets if he gets out of bed and puts on his clothes.
Gender theory has been a long time coming. I remember taking an advanced psychology course in 1981 at SUNY called Gender and Psychology or something. I thought it was going to be a straight psychology course. It was run by a young professor whose major theme was that gender roles are societally conditioned. Even at the time, I felt like I was being propagandized. So these thought bubbles have neen percolating in academia longer than many people realize.
Money, Kinsey, and De Belvoir are some of the post WW2 major culprits. Not coincidently, all three were pedos.
The John Money experiment started in 1967. Money declared his experiment a success, even though the twins involved died prematurely of suicide and drug overdose. He was touting the successes, in spite of the fact that the Reimer twins were still in the middle of the experiment, right around the time you took that course. Money fit the experiment to reflect his preconceived ideas instead of making observation of his experiment and drawing conclusions from that.
Money used the experiment as proof of his ideas, in spite of the sad endings of the Reimer twins which could be traced to the trauma of those experiments. It's an horrific story of abuse, both sexual, physical and emotional.
Many crazy theories percolate before fizzling out in daylight. Flat earthing was a thing, creationism, blood letting all fell away swiftly in the light of day.
Transgenderism seems a cult which has infected more swiftly and deeply than these others yet is backed by an equal measure of science. Like the Rover 'bubble' in The Prisoner it has come de profundis menacingly to prevent escape from the Village - nice to see it popped!
Probably feels like propaganda since you never looked into anthropology. You'll find all kinds of cultures that socialize gender in different ways. Oh wait, America's number 1 right? Best country in the world? THERE'S your propaganda. Pledge of allegiance never gave you any internal quarrel, did it?
@@TriforceofJacob No, valid points you make. Of course there is some conditioning involved with gender roles. Women and men perform different functions in Nigeria, Columbia, Norway and the U.S. That is true. It is not controversial to make that observation.
Where the gender theorists do is something else entirely. They almost completely discount biological determinants, and make gender a project to which you can add your own creative elements, create new genders, switch genders and so forth. My point was that the table was set for this to happen already in the late 70s, early 80s.
Thanks! This is the best summary I heard about this. I'm a mom fighting to get these policies out of our school district. I know little children that think they can actually change their bodies to the opposite sex and have no clue of the difference between biology and stereotypes. Many of my kid's peers believe they are born in the wrong body and some have medically transitioned. It's been horrifying to witness their change from being kids who, for the most part, were happy and living their lives, to youth/young adults who seem depressed and act angry with the world after they transitioned. Their families went along with all of this because they were told by the "gender therapists" that their children would kill themselves if they didn't help them transition. This is wrong on all levels.
It is horrific... profound abuse
This weeds out the weak who are easily propagandized. And comes out of the same academics that releases every bad idea.
"We must sterilize the disabled because it is a life not worth living."
We must "sterilize ghey kids because it is a life not worth living." The only difference is 80 uears.
Many of them are narcissists.
Ironically they may game end even faster once they realize they have been had when they detransition. And another stark irony is how trans personalities like Blair White, Buck Angel, Mark aka That Offensive Trainee(yep I can't say that lmao) and Shapeshifter are being browbeaten as fakes or traitors when they have objective reality on their side no matter how many surgeries or hormones they have partaken.
How old is your child?
@@juliazalewski3023 My kids are teens now. I've been witnessing this for more than 6 years.
Well said! Sadly it won't convince ideologues who deny objective facts.
You've found the answer all of us felt was there but couldn't articulate. Thank you 🙏
There is a more insightful article on all of this at the Catholic365 website entitled "Good People: Please, Please, Please Stop Using Terminology that Promotes an Anti-God Agenda".
Ever since at least the 14th century, the word 'gender' has been properly recognized and used as a synonym for the biological sexes, and this understanding/usage was made even stronger in the 15th century. As such, this rightful understanding of gender must not be surrendered to the “transgender” movement since they and their fellow travelers use their preferred yet still false definition of gender as a social construct and/or feelings a person has that may or may not coincide with their biological sex/gender to further promote their despicable agenda. We must always insist that gender and biological sex are synonymous to further demonstrate the folly of the "transgender" movement that proudly proclaims biological sex and gender are different.
Yes keep that backward 14th century mindset Bubba
@@dudebarker9268 Thanks for demonstrating your remarkable ignorance, Brainiac. Look again at what I set forth and try to better understand it instead of making a non sequitur comment that exposes your lack of intelligence.
On one hand,they say that there aren't any gender roles,but on the other hand,they say that a girl who likes toy trucks is a boy and a boy who likes the color pink is a girl.
The fact is that they're confused,and we're grounded in reality
this is one of my issues. The same people who say there's no one way to behave for a gender, who say a sissy boy is still a man, etc, then turn around and insist anyone who isn't perfectly in-line with the trope must be gay, trans etc.
Like what if they're just a man who likes knitting and the color pink?
According to them thats fine, and normal and doesn't mean they are any less a man... so why then must the man be gay, trans etc, etc?
Something deeper than this is also that if gender is a social construct, why insist on pronouns at all? Why have any genders? Why do people feel this deep need to have a category for these things? Almost like there's an underlying reality that is rooted in something not social
Because you need to somehow differentiate who the hell are you talking about and apparently sorting by sex is enough to catch the implied subject of the sentence most of the time
They noticed that gender roles were a little bit flexible and somewhat mutable, then decided that gender itself was socially constructed. The leap in logic is absurd. Even accounting for variations across time and culture, gender roles are mapped onto realities that stem from our biological sex.
A little history lesson for you. Gender role as it is known today is only as old as 1955, gender as it pertains to sex is only as old as 1474, and those cultures that didn't conform to the Abrahamic gender roles have had the closest humans have ever been to egalitarian(Ancient Egypt for example) with little variance between what was traditionally masculine or feminine roles with the inclusion of more than two genders.
@@darkfire8008 "A little history lesson for you. Gender role as it is known today is only as old as 1955, gender as it pertains to sex is only as old as 1474, and those cultures that didn't conform to the Abrahamic gender roles..."
Friend, you are either disconnected from objective reality or too stupid to realise you are stupid. Women are mothers and have been in that 'role' for entire existence of our species which I believe predates 1955 or even 1474 for that matter. Please use the brain before writing non-sense on the internet.
It annoys me whenever is see he/him, she/her under profile names in Zoom. Like, duh.
Except that the current move, which was entirely predictable, is that sex is also a social construction.
The terms man and woman are the cultural expression of a biological reality, just as boar and sow denote male and female pigs, bull and cow etc., Yes, the conventions of dress, role, etc that apply to the sexes vary across cultures. A Scotsman in a kilt is not "presenting" as a woman, he is wearing a garment tat is traditionally male dress in his culture. This does not mean that the concept of man and woman are entirely cultural constructs.
Man = adult human male.
Woman = adult human female.
The only cultural or social construct aspect of these terms are the 'adult' part, which are not as deeply rooted in biology as are sex and the human species, and that distinguishes a man not from a woman but a boy and a woman not from a man but a girl.
So properly defined, even as social constructs they cannot be used to confirm gender theory in any way.
I have always been uncomfortable with people enabling body dysmorphia. Then I talked to trans people online and there are common themes in M-F, childhood emotional trauma, beliefs that masculinity is toxic and autism. For many it feels like they are blaming their bodies instead of dealing with their emotional issues. I researched looking for evidence of biomarkers of transgender, in RCT studies, there is none. Small differences relate to sexuality, not gender ID.
"Gender identity is personality.
Gender expression is fashion."
Barry Wall
It’s an idea straight from the pits of hell.
Me and my wife attended a pregnancy appointment, the nurse asked us what our preferred pronouns were. I felt sorry for the nurse because she sounded almost embarrassed that she now has to ask these questions 😂
Did you answer? If I'm asked, I say, "I don't do that." Oh, and check into homebirth...
Could say...I don't believe in compelled speech... although..we don't do that probably works more easily
@@helendancelotHow is asking someone what their word preference is compelling their speech? And a nurse is there to serve you…. Idk why you find it odd that a nurse would ask what you want them to do for you.
@@MoonshineHinstitutional capture. That's why.
@@Mymusic-pj1oc what?
Speaking of kwanza - my state paid job said that no religious or belief based decorations could be put up in the office. So no Christmas tree, no Christmas lights, no Hanukkah decor, etc. They made a woman take down her little Christmas tree in her cubicle. But then a couple of people in the office took it upon themselves to put up Kwanza decor in the conference room for the holiday party. I kept waiting for someone to say it needed to be taken down, or something. But nope, they let it stay. That told me everything that I needed to know about how things were going to go. There’s no blanket policy. It’s one rule for me and another rule for others.
Be the change you want to see. Demand equal treatment!
@@stevendotterer1543 I left that job for many reasons related to that, but not that exact reason. Let’s just say it became clear to me that certain people were being given promotions, while others of us could not ever get promoted no matter how much better at the job we were. The holiday decorations issue was just sort of symbolic of who was being given preferential treatment. It’s sad because I was always a nice liberal my whole life, believed in equality. But these new unequal treatments that one cannot ignore after a while made it impossible for me to get along with some people who want to sabotage me. Now I have my own small business where I’m thriving. Anyone who wants to work in a field where merit matters should have their own small business and just laugh at the people fighting for scraps in these large organizations that punish merit.
This is not about liberal democracy and 'not imposing anything'. Postmodernists reject liberalism right out of the gate. It's not about liberalism, never was. Postmodernism is precisely about dismantling all categories of thought, society and culture. It's about destroying the current power structure. And they say this outright; smash the patriarchy, destroy capitalism etc.
Of course postmodernism is full of performative contradictions; this argument is as old as postmodernism itself. They don't care. Arguments don't matter to them; rationality itself is seen as an imposition of the patriarchal imperialist white male power structure and theyre here to destroy it. And of course they want to replace it with a more "diverse and inclusive" power structure, they wouldnt deny that either.
They can only wake up by somehow realizing that their project doesnt actually lead to a more tolerant, pleasant and open minded society but it creates only confusion, division and ultimately hell.
..they know what they are doing, at least their leaders. They treated Orwells 1984 as a manual not a warning
@@sheridansherr8974 If you read people like Derrida, it's all there. I think it was him who said that postmodernism is supposed to act like a Virus that infects a culture and reproduces until it destroys its host.
This is not some conspiracy theory, it's actually what this is all designed to do. You could say to him: "But this is not consistent with liberal democracy!" He would just laugh in your face and say that liberal democracy is precisely the thing that postmodernism was designed to subvert.
The confusion and chaos is a feature, not a bug.
@@helenromanelli2544 exactly
I was looking for the term to describe these exteemely radical, illiberal individuals, im glad to finally find it. Postmodernism…..yeah, iconoclastic describes em to.
Good on you buddy. Hopefully this video won’t be removed in a minute and a half after it starts
This is by far the clearest and most logical explanation I have heard for why gender theory is tyrannical. This can really help conservatives fight against this theory. I have been scratching my head for a long time about the complete inanity of gender theory, and how to deal with it., but your answer is so brilliant. I’m going to listen to this numerous times until I know I can speak it from my heart when I’m pushed. Thank you so much Brian.
There is a more insightful article on all of this at the Catholic365 website entitled "Good People: Please, Please, Please Stop Using Terminology that Promotes an Anti-God Agenda".
That’s weird since conservatives are the most hardcore believers of gender alive.
Ever since at least the 14th century, the word 'gender' has been properly recognized and used as a synonym for the biological sexes, and this understanding/usage was made even stronger in the 15th century. As such, this rightful understanding of gender must not be surrendered to the “transgender” movement since they and their fellow travelers use their preferred yet still false definition of gender as a social construct and/or feelings a person has that may or may not coincide with their biological sex/gender to further promote their despicable agenda. We must always insist that gender and biological sex are synonymous to further demonstrate the folly of the "transgender" movement that proudly proclaims biological sex and gender are different.
@@docverit2668 The meanings of words change over time. A word’s usage and/or meaning changing does nothing to undermine it.
@@MoonshineH We are definitely believers in sex : Male and Female
Sex is the presence or absence of a Y chromosome; males have a Y, females do not. This characteristic is determined at conception and can never be changed; it is empirically verifiable and unrelated to how anyone feels; and it is a pure logical binary with no gray area or third options.
Gender is the social interpretation of sex. Because there are exactly two sexes for any society to interpret there are exactly two genders, masculine and feminine. The specifics of masculine/feminine interpretation will vary somewhat from one society to another and within a given society those specifics will change over time, so gender actually is a social construct. But gender is what a society says about sex, it is not what anyone says about themselves nor is it how anyone feels. What people now call "gender" is personal feeling or personality traits. These feelings and traits lead some people to present themselves in society as the sex they are not, or to pretend to be part of non-existent fictional "genders"; while sometimes quite real, these feelings and traits are in no sense categorically normative and have no valid claim on science, social order, or language.
Yeah that other thing you describe is called personality or identity, but those horndogs only think about having sex so they confalte the concept of sex with everything else you are as a human
I think that those who are gender divergent should allow us to use pronouns based on what we observe, rather than what that person demands.
I'm for that to a degree; if someone respectfully asks for pronoun preference, it's fair dinkum. If they're gonna shame and bully people about it, then they can't be mad when someone eventually pushes back, in any fairness.
“Allow us”? You say what you please! You have just as much right as they do, and no one has the right to tell you what to say!
Aight, well I don’t care what your name is and am just gonna call you Richter.
Nobody is gender divergent.
@@MoonshineH nobody cares! 😂
Secularists consider their lives to be their own, but Catholics believe that they are given to us by the Lord God.
If he still owns it, it wasn't given.
@therealol! Good one.lfriday13th
@@therealfriday13thsemantic range exists bigot
@@therealfriday13th I interpreted @TOPGEUN to mean that God gives us Earthly "life" and our purpose during our life is to know and love God and our neighbor. Simple concept, hard to do!
Religion is a social construct. No amount of evidence will convince them otherwise. A creator may very well exist. And may in all actuality be very likely. Yet there is no evidence of it, only conjecture. The higher beings in all the earthly scriptures are conceived of by mankind. If the scriptures were indeed 'gospel' it would be heresy to follow anything but the original documents. Where is that devoutness?
This is without hyperbole the most concise and practical breakdown of the inner heart of this issue I have ever seen. Bravo 🙌
Ever since at least the 14th century, the word 'gender' has been properly recognized and used as a synonym for the biological sexes, and this understanding/usage was made even stronger in the 15th century. As such, this rightful understanding of gender must not be surrendered to the “transgender” movement since they and their fellow travelers use their preferred yet still false definition of gender as a social construct and/or feelings a person has that may or may not coincide with their biological sex/gender to further promote their despicable agenda. We must always insist that gender and biological sex are synonymous to further demonstrate the folly of the "transgender" movement that proudly proclaims biological sex and gender are different.
If gender is a social construct, then it doesn't require a physical surgery to assert it. Parents cannot be forced to acquiesce to this barbarism, a non-reversible act that may lead to regret.
Above all, it is an extremely lucrative business. They create patients who will suffer from the damage for the rest of their lives and will have to be treated with medication forever
Polly Carmichael (GIDS) is on record querying whether they select the right kids or if something happens to the brain during puberty. We all know the latter is true. Suppressing puberty means the brain doesn’t have a hormone surge to change.
An affinity for the more stereotypical feminine/masculine (ie. gender identity) doesn't change one's sex. Exploration and acceptance of those affinities (also known as personality) should be encouraged. Denial of human biology and the experiences tied to biology should not.
Parents opting a child whose brain maturation (myelination) they halted early on with hormone blockers to become a lifelong patient, should have just bought dress-up baby dolls they could play with forever.
This is so on point it is ridiculous we have to have this talk.
This just makes me think so many people just need to learn basic logic to easily understand this.
Absolutely.. logic should be a basic
You are not intelligent so stop
@@helendancelotYou don’t even know who you are so please , shut up
It's not about a social construct being imposed on *them* - it's about who gets to decide the social construct. They want it to *be* them.
It's like saying, "We don't like rules. So, we have made a new rule that there are no rules."
Yeah- when people tell me it’s a “social construction” - I usually say “yes, and I don’t want your social construction replacing it”
Hasn’t basically everything that John Money ever said on this subject been proven to be either biased, fraudulent, ill-conceived, improperly studied/sourced or outright self serving?
Yes.
It has
Yes, absolutely! He was directly responsible for the deaths of two young man whose lives he destroyed!
The thing is gender isn't even a social construct, only certain aspects of gender stereotypes could be considered social constructs. Things like boys like blue and girls like pink as opposed to males are inherently more aggressive than females
Good quote from Judith Butler, who revises what she says depending on the outcome she desires. Her latest (March 2024) is the opposite of the social construct idea: “New gender formations are part of . . . reality.”
Right. Which is why I added the bit in at 8:44. 🙂
Gender might be socially constructed, but its definitely linked to physical biology. This is the root problem: playing word games & redefining words b/c the ideology can't stand on its own merit.
As always, excellent video Mr. Holdsworth!
There is a more insightful article on all of this at the Catholic365 website entitled "Good People: Please, Please, Please Stop Using Terminology that Promotes an Anti-God Agenda".
Ever since at least the 14th century, the word 'gender' has been properly recognized and used as a synonym for the biological sexes, and this understanding/usage was made even stronger in the 15th century. As such, this rightful understanding of gender must not be surrendered to the “transgender” movement since they and their fellow travelers use their preferred yet still false definition of gender as a social construct and/or feelings a person has that may or may not coincide with their biological sex/gender to further promote their despicable agenda. We must always insist that gender and biological sex are synonymous to further demonstrate the folly of the "transgender" movement that proudly proclaims biological sex and gender are different.
We, my wife and children went to school, of course. Big schools. Never seen anybody feeling not right in its body.
And now all of a sudden...
No trans person would make it obvious how uncomfortable they are, because what are they going to recieve from being open about it with strangers? More often than not: hatred, only being told that they should conform with their sex and that they are delusional
Just because you haven't seen it yourself that doesn't mean it's not real
The real issue is these social conventions we’ve adhered to previously fell into place because they’re tried & true, they make sense and are effective. There are jobs which are better suited for men, and there are jobs that are better suited for women. There are roles that one sex, or the other excels at. There is a societal benefit to a strong nuclear family that cornerstones our society, a common unanimously understood language, set of colloquialisms, slang etc is pivotal in a functioning well oiled system of living and governance. To try and dismantle, overly complicate or confuse the established, effective norm simply for personal gain, selfishness or more likely the uncontrolled influence of mental illness is irresponsible, destructive and unnecessary
To ultimately liberate oneself from Reality and one's own Humanity. That is the Objective. Embracing the Abyss?
Yes. This is post-modernism: there is no ultimate truth, only one's personal truth.
Fair enough, but those three writers you quote at the beginning mean different things by "gender" and have very different ideas about what the significance of calling it a "social construct" is.
In particular, Az Hakeem's understanding of gender as a "psychosocial virtual entity" has lead him to campaign against both "gender affirming care" and the extension of trans rights. This is a position directly opposed to Butler.
True. He is a member of genspect that is in opposition to WPATH.
Watching your antics is making me miss playing! Too busy with life but you're camping the guards where I logged my pally out the last time I got to play. Great vid. Really enjoying the wiz series.
Thank you Brian for stating the truth. Sadly those whose goal is to bully us all into conforming to their views will claim this video is eleven minutes and forty =two seconds of hate speech.
Ever since at least the 14th century, the word 'gender' has been properly recognized and used as a synonym for the biological sexes, and this understanding/usage was made even stronger in the 15th century. As such, this rightful understanding of gender must not be surrendered to the “transgender” movement since they and their fellow travelers use their preferred yet still false definition of gender as a social construct and/or feelings a person has that may or may not coincide with their biological sex/gender to further promote their despicable agenda. We must always insist that gender and biological sex are synonymous to further demonstrate the folly of the "transgender" movement that proudly proclaims biological sex and gender are different.
Good point. But if gender is a social convention not grounded in biology, why do “traditional” conventions about gender around the world and historically almost universally conform to biological sex?
I have always said this. People now think that the present is and was eternal. "Women were forced to stay at home" maybe they had to stay at home due to the fact that babies need to be fed and changed every couple of hours and there was no such thing as powdered milk or breast pumps so the women actually had to be present with the child? Or the fact that children arent able to be look after theselves in any proper capacity until they are at least 7 years old and there was no such thing as daycare, nursery or public schools. There were nannies but only the rich could afford them. Did they expect women should leave their children alone at home with no supervision to be girlbosses? This actually makes sense to people? They ignore the circumstances of people of the time. Its easy to say this or that is a social construct when you dont have to deal with the full consequences of biology due to technology mostly made by men.
@@lcako1616 Not to mention that modern times made cities and nature much safer. Even in 18th century going around the forest or city at night wasn't something you'd do
I just found this guy because i was searching for that one video of convincing chat gpt..stunning stuff... I love philosophy and religious debates and arguments so I'm glad to see someone like this.. Keep going on man...i wish you a great life❤
“No one tells kids that transitioning is like getting on a boat on one shore of a fast moving river to reach the other side, but you’ll never get to the other side and you’ll be in that boat for the rest of your life.” August 25, 2023, Dr. Julia Mason, Doctor of Pediatric Medicine
This is probably the best breakdown of this that I have ever heard.
I'm just waiting for somebody to ask me what my pronouns are so that I can say her highness😂
I like it 😂
I'm stealing this lol
Brilliant essay! 👏
watch the video before it get taken down
Well stated. Will be sharing this. Thank you. It’s good to hear someone with no grey in their beard make arguments like this.
For the record, liberal democracy is stupid too
Thanks again for another for another outstanding, well-reasoned, video. Keep up the good work.
Ever since at least the 14th century, the word 'gender' has been properly recognized and used as a synonym for the biological sexes, and this understanding/usage was made even stronger in the 15th century. As such, this rightful understanding of gender must not be surrendered to the “transgender” movement since they and their fellow travelers use their preferred yet still false definition of gender as a social construct and/or feelings a person has that may or may not coincide with their biological sex/gender to further promote their despicable agenda. We must always insist that gender and biological sex are synonymous to further demonstrate the folly of the "transgender" movement that proudly proclaims biological sex and gender are different.
0:35 Really, how did they get away with this? They're just taking the word "gender", reinterpreting it, and then arguing their new fantasy definition. Was the world just out of dictionaries at that moment..?
I honestly don’t remember all the fancy phrases from college in the early 90s, but here we go. If gender is a social construct, then why do these theorists conflate it with biological sex? Even if we got rid of a=how masculinity is performed and b=how femininity should be performed, (which is very restrictive, and who gets to decide that anyway?) it doesn’t change the idea that sex (ie the physical visible characterics) exist on people’s bodies. So I left college thinking gender theory won’t get much further than that.
I blinked and a decade later, it seems like the gender theorists are now in fact coming for that immovable wall. I believe it’s a small but very vocal minority and their allies who are terrified and guilt-ridden. What further surprised me is how the narrative effectively does away with homosexuality but reframes it as being stuck in the wrong body. In effect the trans community is cannibalizing the LGB community that offered them care and support.
This is exactly why the LGB is becoming more critical of gender ideology and finally standing up to it. But now gays and lesbians are excommunicated for being in same sex attraction as it is considered "transphobic" to be that way.
If they just wanted to wholesale reject some social constructs, then cool. Whatever. Live your life. But both things cant be true at once. You cant denounce a gender social construct, and then treat the solution as just enforcing a new social construct. Either there are rules with gender or there are no rules at all. It cant be “well there are no rules, but you HAVE to refer to me as blah blah blah.”
I like the Ancient Greek idea for reference where pain, our existential being is determined by the Dionysian/Apollonian dialectic. Emotion and reason need to be both used and appreciated because they work best in concert. When one is rejected for the other they believed it leads to disaster.
Beautiful speech! From how I see it saying gender is a social construct goes against it being possible to being born in the wrong body. Gender roles have changed through the ages, but there are still differences between the genders that have always been there. When I grew up I struggled a lot with what it was being female, and I questioned it al lot, but I simply did not understand that me being female wasn’t linked to being like the girly girls and that I just simply was female. Those facts don’t have to go up against each other.
So, now instead of a doctor telling expectant parents if the little human being in the expectant mother's womb is a boy or girl, the expectant parents can tell the doctor, it's a boy or it's a girl, regardless.
They are creating in their own image, God help us.
Lately I have been ensuring I ALWAYS use “sex” instead of “gender” when referring to people. I had found myself using “gender” and “sex” interchangeably for that critical human trait. Objects have gender (except if you speak English😅) and people have sex.
There is a more insightful article on all of this at the Catholic365 website entitled "Good People: Please, Please, Please Stop Using Terminology that Promotes an Anti-God Agenda".
I remember when Biden was campaigning back in 2019 or so he was asked "how many genders are there?" And he answered, "I don't know? 3?" Lol in other words, he was begging " please tell me what I'm supposed to say at this moment. Lol. Such leadership.
Wow! Our daughter has demanded that we succumb to her pronouns and we have adamantly refused, instead trying to avoid pronouns altogether, but mostly not contacting one another for months at a time. I now feel that I have a comeback of my own to use when she demands that we submit. “You cannot force us to submit to your social constucts and conventions. We have our own, and ours tell us that you are our DAUGHTER.” Hoisted on her own petard!
What I don’t’ understand is this: Why does someone want to choose a gender that differs from biological sex? If a biological male wants to wear a dress, makeup, call themself by a feminine name, why not just do it? if it’s about what bathroom to use, the new gender-neutral bathrooms where each stall locks and is private deals with that pretty well. If it really is that important to use a different pronoun, then let’s just drop all gender pronouns except when referring to issues of biological sex. I am probably missing out on something important, but it seems to me, if we get rid of the taboos surrounding how men and women dress, talk, behave etc, then there would appear to be less need to identify yourself as one gender or another. You no longer need to identify yourself as male or female in order to ‘have permission’ to act or look a certain way.
"Man and Woman, Girl and Boy" is not a social construct
They are linguistical descriptors of the human species in which chronological age and sex are described
Example:
Man = adult (chronological age) male (which binary of sex) human (species)
This was great, I like to hear arguments like this, not just opinions and biases. Thanks. Subscribed.
Well said. More speakers should be focusing on this aspect of the argument. This needs to be driven home so hard that no doubt is left. I can’t understand how so many people haven’t yet figured this out.
Great video!
I draw the line at Hallmark movies, ;)
I did enjoyed your argument and believe there is great merit in it. Thank you for the insight.
Thank you for speaking up about this
Gender Assigned at birth
by the Divine Physician.
Correction: Gender Given at conception by the Divine Physician.
@@michaelthrone I gladly stand corrected.
Well I don't see how sex and gender are anything different
Thank you for verbalized such a spot on argument
VERY well said. Clear, simple, well articulated and thoroughly rational. Thank you!
👍🏻👍🏻
This gender "assignation" at birth really annoys me. Sex is observed at birth not assigned and I thought gender only applied to words.
Appreciate ya. Thanks for sharing.
Very happy to support your excellent and insightful videos. Thanks Brian.
We’ll said.
Yes but logic has never been the strong suit of any leftist😅
you are really well spoken, this is a very good and well thought out video.
Thank you for articulating my own thoughts. It's nice to have someone defy my self destructive doubt and confirm my first, and therefore correct, ideas.
Cheers
Gender EXPRESSION is socially determined…but the underlying gender/sex is immutable.
My GF is a feminist. She has just recently started playing video games. We were playing star dew valley. I naturally gravitated towards the mines she naturally gravitated towards looking after the animals and town folk. She said “oh we have fallen into gender traditional roles”.
So close. So close.
So close? I get she said about gender trad roles but I don't get the exact point you are alluding to
Why choose a feminist as your girfriend?
She didn’t have to say anything.
It can never be against the law to tell the truth
I enjoyed this video. Very sound and measured. 🙏🏼 thank you
It's an Abomination.
Yeah, yeah it is
Lord, please hear our prayer so that they may become your people.
@@TOPGEUN Amen 🙏
Make gender grammar again
There is a more insightful article on all of this at the Catholic365 website entitled "Good People: Please, Please, Please Stop Using Terminology that Promotes an Anti-God Agenda".
Blowing my mind with this explanation. Brilliantly constructed and presented -- thank you!
Very well argued. Thanks for this!🎉
Why are we even talking about "gender"? Nouns have genders; masculine, feminine and neuter. People haves sexes, male and female.
It is also reasonable to talk about gendered behaviour though, in people and animals. And to what extent human gender roles are biological vs cultural. For instance it is worth asking whether we should seek a more equal balance in maternity and paternity leave. Or in highly technical professions. Or combat roles. Or whether men and women are just biologically predisposed to have widely diverging interests in those areas of life.
They seek to confuse sex and gender when it's convenient
As far as maternity leave goes..a woman who has given birth needs to heal.... maybe the man could use leave to do all the chores and let the mother heal...@@andybrice2711
@@thatsunfortunate2771conflating sex and gender has serious repercussions when in the legal realm
Gender is a social construct. Biological sex is a physical thing. Humanity is always adjusting how much our ideas about gender are derived from biology 🧬 I believe that there is an ideology that is being pushed right now that dangerously dismisses the natural strength and aggression of adult human males and the vulnerability of human females 😢
No that's gender identity
Gender means sex.
@@mariussielcken no, the two words have different meanings.
@@mariussielckenit's the deliberate conflation of the two terms that had allowed this Cancer to metastasise throughout society.
Well thought out, and well put!
Lucid and we'll argued, although it seems like a potential gap is that we seem to be capable of transcending limitations. I'm conditioned by my culture, but can imaginatively transcend it. I'm conditioned by the body I'm sleeved into, but can often substantially transcend it. I happen to be tall, but I can imagine what it is like to be short, and even inhabit that perspective like an actor creatively committing to a role in a play. I'm conditioned by speaking in English, but can transcend past it's thought-words and language into additional frames of thinking.
Physics can't be transcended. Gravity is gravity. But identity and culture and language and sexual expression, etc, all seem like they are subject to degrees of transcending.
I don't find that I can completely step past the base physical reality and conditioning. One may do a fairly good job of stepping beyond thinking linearly, conditioned by American culture, to thinking in circular fashion, as if one had grown up Chinese, say, to take one example, but it's always imperfect, and yet partially achieved. Or I may do a fairly convincing job of inhabiting a role like a fully committed thespian and really convincing be Hamlet or Othello or the MC from Cabaret, any role that you like really, even across time period or gender or skin color. But Im aware I'm inhabiting a role, creatively.
Saying that we can't transcend, (even if sometimes only partially or imperfectly), seems inaccurate.
Saying that an actor playing a role is actual Hamlet also seems inaccurate.
I wouldn't have an issue with whomever playing whatever role or identity, 24/7 even, if they just were self-aware about the fact that they're inhabiting a social construct instead of literally being that thing in a physics sense.
You nailed it!!! Thank you for taking the time to make this video.!! I had to retire early from education in B.C. because I was NOT adherent to gender ideology in schools. I decided to keep my pension, retire early, and not get cancelled or fired from a lower mainland school district.