On 10/18/23 11:27 AM, glen wrote:
Here's PZ Myers policing his community:
The Gamete Delusion
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/10/17/the-gamete-delusion/
https://www.theparadoxinstitute.com/watch/is-sex-bimodal
I don't really have a dog in this fight other than the general feeling
that I support underdogs (and not just the ones who fly off in all
directions at once).
to paraphrase one of the more notable FriAM-Sages... "people should be
called what they want to be called"... harping on the emic/etic
conflation some more, I find these discussions (e.g. Dawkins et al)
rather off-point in this regard. I understand (vaguely) why we all
feel we must make sweeping generalizations about *other people's
business*... some of it is an empathetic response, wanting to
understand, but some of it is the response of someone who wants to
control others. These *are* conflated by circumstance in the sense
that in spite of the pithy aphorism "your opinion of me is none of my
business", most of us actually *do* care what others think of us and it
does effect how they interact with us. It always feels unfortunate
that those who want to tell others how to present/feel/be too often set
the subject of debate.
I *expect* someone with their own dog in the fight to have an
insider/personal view of these things and am generally interested and
curious about their perspective up to their privacy. For those who
mostly just want to stir up a dogfight, I'm not particularly interested
in their view beyond preparing myself for when *they* might choose to
try to stir up a dog(cat?)fight in *my* backyard.
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