I admit I got a laugh from that transphobe’s last response (which I saw via email notification), because I am literally several months away from completing a PhD in genetics. Which is irrelevant, because bigotry isn’t necessarily cured or prevented by higher education. Richard Dawkins (was) an eminent evolutionary biologist who now just spends his time being a dipshit with ill-informed opinions on Twitter.
Thanks for being awesome. Dunno if you caught the part where I was informed that he poster had a PhD in a “biology-based field” and “thus thinks differently than me,” before betraying an elementary and unsophisticated understanding of the subject matter :P
My wife's grandfather also fought in all those wars that Ms. Savic did; by WWII he was a Surgeon-Colonel in the Yugoslav army, so not actually fighting as such. I thought he was pretty badass; in the First Balkan War, for example, he said he was a law student (he was 19 at the time), because if he told the truth - he was a medical student - he'd be sent to a field hospital instead of fighting. But my word, he didn't hold a candle to Ms Savic.
In the 1960s he migrated here to Australia, continued his medical practice into his 90s, and died aged 101.
I’m fascinated by this story. Partly because I learned this is who Terry Pratchett based Monstrous Regiment on.
Anyway, I’ve fallen down a Rabbit hole researching the Serbian army and Balkan Wars. I wondered if Milunka had volunteered for her brother because he was too young and found out that the Serbian Army at the time required all males 17-50 to serve. They needed to be 21 to be in the regular army.
I did find this badass woman who served in Serbian Army and rose to Sergeant Major:
Well, I am part of this “woke crowd,” I assume, because I affirm transgender people, and have a nuanced view of sex and gender, based on biology and psychology, that goes beyond “XX and XY”.
And you’re talking nonsense. This is anti-trans strawman rhetoric.
The anti-trans crowd are always saying that trans people are “using stereotypes” to define their gender. But they get very mad when trans people do NOT conform to those stereotypes (such as when a trans woman has a five o’clock shadow…I’ve literally seen anti-trans “gender critical” activists say “they’re not even trying to look like a woman.”)
Which is it? Are women and men and non-binary folk allowed to be a full range of expressions, or aren’t they?
And if you define womanhood on child-carrying capacity, I can shoot right back that you’re reducing women to their reproductive potential.
If Joan of Arc never expressed a desire to be a man that extended beyond “so I can access the privileges not allowed me in a patriarchal system,” then no, no halfway intellectually honest person would label her as a trans man.
I banned the TERF.
I admit I got a laugh from that transphobe’s last response (which I saw via email notification), because I am literally several months away from completing a PhD in genetics. Which is irrelevant, because bigotry isn’t necessarily cured or prevented by higher education. Richard Dawkins (was) an eminent evolutionary biologist who now just spends his time being a dipshit with ill-informed opinions on Twitter.
I got all the notifications at once and saw the link to TERF site and said yeah they’re gone.
Thanks for being awesome. Dunno if you caught the part where I was informed that he poster had a PhD in a “biology-based field” and “thus thinks differently than me,” before betraying an elementary and unsophisticated understanding of the subject matter :P
I did.
My wife's grandfather also fought in all those wars that Ms. Savic did; by WWII he was a Surgeon-Colonel in the Yugoslav army, so not actually fighting as such. I thought he was pretty badass; in the First Balkan War, for example, he said he was a law student (he was 19 at the time), because if he told the truth - he was a medical student - he'd be sent to a field hospital instead of fighting. But my word, he didn't hold a candle to Ms Savic.
In the 1960s he migrated here to Australia, continued his medical practice into his 90s, and died aged 101.
I’m fascinated by this story. Partly because I learned this is who Terry Pratchett based Monstrous Regiment on.
Anyway, I’ve fallen down a Rabbit hole researching the Serbian army and Balkan Wars. I wondered if Milunka had volunteered for her brother because he was too young and found out that the Serbian Army at the time required all males 17-50 to serve. They needed to be 21 to be in the regular army.
I did find this badass woman who served in Serbian Army and rose to Sergeant Major:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/world-history/history-of-the-first-world-war-in-100-moments/a-history-of-the-first-world-war-in-100-moments-on-an-albanian-mountain-top-a-british-woman-joins-serbia-s-army-9359255.html
Can you explain?
Hi there.
Well, I am part of this “woke crowd,” I assume, because I affirm transgender people, and have a nuanced view of sex and gender, based on biology and psychology, that goes beyond “XX and XY”.
And you’re talking nonsense. This is anti-trans strawman rhetoric.
The anti-trans crowd are always saying that trans people are “using stereotypes” to define their gender. But they get very mad when trans people do NOT conform to those stereotypes (such as when a trans woman has a five o’clock shadow…I’ve literally seen anti-trans “gender critical” activists say “they’re not even trying to look like a woman.”)
Which is it? Are women and men and non-binary folk allowed to be a full range of expressions, or aren’t they?
And if you define womanhood on child-carrying capacity, I can shoot right back that you’re reducing women to their reproductive potential.
If Joan of Arc never expressed a desire to be a man that extended beyond “so I can access the privileges not allowed me in a patriarchal system,” then no, no halfway intellectually honest person would label her as a trans man.