This just in: men and women are not
different. (Okay, “experts” have been trying to get us to believe that for some
time now, but it still seemed fun to write.) While a recent
study did not explicitly say that, one published in the journal “Science”
claims that many textbooks used in U.S. classrooms don’t properly distinguish
between sex and gender, which
are, apparently, considered two very different things by modern science.
The textbooks were taken to task because they
didn’t allow for the unimaginably vast number of genders now considered to be
extant—and on a continuum. (A very long continuum indeed!) The study avers that
the archaic belief in fewer than an unlimited number of genders contradicts
scientific understanding……thus proving that science isn’t what it used
to be. And probably never was.
The scientists/experts say that, just because a
person has male genitalia, we must not assume that that person is male, and if
a person has female body parts/genitalia, e.g. a vagina, we shouldn’t
arbitrarily assume that person is female.
Assumptions?! If we can’t assume that
females are girls and males are boys…we are in real trouble as a society and a
species. If men and women aren’t different—and the concepts of sex and gender are
not even knowable, we may as well start closing up shop now.
Why
stop at expunging musty old notions of sex and gender from our nation’s
textbooks? Let’s look at what other “misguided assumptions” they may be
promoting. The Earth is round? The Holocaust was bad? Lincoln was assassinated?
What the hell?! If we can’t assume
water is wet or fire hot…we as a species will eventually go the way of the
passenger pigeon…which were, by-the-way, hunted to extinction. They did not
lose their ability to differentiate males from females nor decide that gender
is a vast spectrum largely determined by one’s environment.
If we can’t say men and women are
different, and possess unique and complimentary body parts, if we can’t state
the truth, we are engaging in tortured fantasy. And sacrilege. We will have
failed God and nature…and ultimately ourselves.
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