In extremis play the “abuser” card
And then sometimes it just goes terribly wrong.
She thinks that “inscribed on the body” makes her sound clever.
Uh oh. Emma’s a biologist.
Aaaaaaaaand there you have her, the true LP, claiming “abuse” and crying with exhaustion, because she’s in way over her head.
One lie after another, not to mention the laughable idea that Emma could get “genuine learning” from Laurie and should be sitting at her feet to drink in the wisdom.
Don’t be that activist.
No Google hits for “bimodal reproductive sex”.
All she had to do was answer the stupid question, and it would be over. If she wanted to go to bed, she could go to bed. The biologist was not in her house threatening her and preventing her from leaving the conversation. SHE WAS ON TWITTER. You can engage or leave.
All these activists want to pretend that biological reality is just a tool of western patriarchy, is used to oppress those who have few rights (which, apparently, now includes middle class and wealthy white males), and can be dismissed by memes. She made an ass of herself; I suspect she realized it, which is why she struck back with the stupid “abuser” comment.
@2 Yeah, ‘sorry, am up late and too tired to reply, I’ll get back to you tomorrow’ is fine, no need to have a meltdown.
‘gerrymandering: The practice of redrawing electoral districts to gain an electoral advantage for a political party.’ How did that find its way into the word salad?
Let’s hope this tactic doesn’t catch on, otherwise you’re going to have lots of students who can’t answer the questions on their finals claiming that the exam is a form of abuse.
Dear Laurie
Get some sleep. The thread will be there in the morning.
I’m still trying to figure out how we reproduce using a social construct. I guess that makes me an abusive person. Or repressive person.
What’s the “2. No” in the second post about?
I would say that there’s probably a chance of a possibility that maybe Laurie Penny could perhaps be one of those people who is happy to relate to any human, animal, plant, rock or anything else, provided it is 100% on his / her / its (select pronoun of choice and use accordingly) terms. That is: 100% on his terms, if he has male genitalia and is chromosomally XY; 100% on her terms if she has female genitalia and is chromosomally XX and 100% on its terms if it has some other arrangement so far unknown to science. Also, 100% on wish terms (select wish of choice and wish accordingly) as long as there is a suitable star or a wishing-well handy.
Hope this helps. It’s a tricky one.
Omar: Huh?
BKiSA: I think she writes “2. No” in response to the question “Do you believe that talking about issues that only affect female bodies is bigotry?”
BKiSA @2 Looks like a reply to the second question asked in two worded image posts by @manimalian, the second one reading “Do you believe talking about issues that only affect female bodies is bigotry?” with Emma Hilton relying to (it/whatever)’s answer to the first question.
https://mobile.twitter.com/PennyRed/status/1431625059353964548
Or what GW said, lol.
Yes sorry about that 2. No. It’s because you can’t get a stand-alone tweet when it’s part of a thread so sometimes you have to include something irrelevant.
G @ 1 – what? Google tells me “About 3,530,000 results (0.48 seconds).” Were you looking at some other Google?
I googled “bimodal reproductive sex” with the quotation marks and got just two hits, both to some obscure blog (“Moths and Tires” or something). I got a lot more without the inverted commas.
Oh, right. You don’t Google with quotation marks unless you’re looking for an exact quotation.
‘ I just got a real body flashback of him telling me I was weak and stupid, when I was practically crying with exhaustion.’
What a pathetic little self-pitying, self-obsessed dweeb. The boyfriend had it right, I think. And LP is making an obvious appeal for sympathy over his ‘real body flashback’, which probably, to make it worse, was a bimodal one as well.
@15: I know that. I was indeed looking for an exact quotation. I assume that all three words appear on their own, and in various places on a single page, on various pages, but not as a phrase. It seems that Laurie invented the phrase.
OK, I just read up on bimodal sex. I guess she didn’t invent it. So I take that back. And I learned a new word! Yay!
http://mic.com/articles/102494/scientists-have-discovered-an-activity-just-as-pleasurable-as-sex-drugs-and-gambling
“According to the study, published in the journal Current Biology, researchers in Spain and Germany have found that expanding your vocabulary activates the ventral striatum, a reward-processing part of the brain involved in pleasurable activities such as sex, gambling, doing drugs or eating good food.”
GW sorry to tell you something you already know but you do keep asking for help with very basic searching. I don’t see why you didn’t just try it without the damn quotation marks.
I’m a biology ignoramus. I don’t actually know the answer to this question … it’s the asparagus throwing me off. I know female animals are egg-producers, but I don’t know how plants work.
maddog1129, female plants also produce eggs. They have ovaries containing ovules, and those ovules are fertilized, just like in humans (well, not just like; sexual reproduction requires intermediaries in plants).
Thank you, iknklast.
The Penny drops out. Or flounces out.
Perhaps she thinks ‘ascribed to’ is GC-speak. As the popular meme puts it:
No, “inscribed on the body” is a bit of Theory jargon.
“inscribed on the body”? those are tattoos.
Biological sex characteristics have a bimodal distribution. There are two peaks with a deep but non-zero valley between them (true intersex people). It’s a rather technical description and not at all the same thing as “sex is a spectrum”.
It helps if you read Penny’s nonsense from the perspective of someone who knows Emma and how seriously badass she is. She has a well-deserved reputation of breezing into threads and flaying people alive. There’s a whole sub-genre of popcorn gifs for people to use when she turns up.
So you can see why Penny is being defensive. It doesn’t explain why she’s being an idiot, though.
takshak, when arguing with sillies armed with trans dogma, I always make a distinction: sexual *characteristics* have a bimodal distribution.*
Sex itself, as in “reproductive category,” is binary. There are two sexes: male and female. Only two. Binary as you can get.
* The valley between doesn’t just contain people with disorders of sexual development. Think breast size, hirsuteness, etc.
Lady Mondegreen, thank you for spelling out what can be bimodal or binary here.
I imagine bimodal reproductive sex as a very short man impregnating a very tall woman — but they would still be male and female in binary reproductive sex.
Choking with laughter here. Thanks Dave!