Thinking about ->-bleeped-<-

[stephaniec]

Thinking about ->-bleeped-<-

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/jacobs/thinking-about-- 🔗>-bleeped-<-/

The American Conservative/By Alan Jacobs • April 6, 2016, 7:57 AM

"Some years ago I was conversing with a Christian academic who is very conservative theologically — and conservative in his social views as well. We were trading ideas about a possible conference in which Christian scholars from a variety of disciplines would talk about what distinctively Christian approaches to their work might look like."

[Tysilio]

There are so many straw men in that superficially "thoughtful" article that a person could probably set it on fire just by looking at it hard enough.

[Stevie]

 ->-bleeped-<-???  Being transgender is not an ism.

ism
ˈizəm
noun informal derogatory
a distinctive practice, system, or philosophy, typically a political ideology or an artistic movement.
"of all the isms, fascism is the most repressive"

[Deborah]

The whole article seemed kind of rambling and pointless.  However, the author does deserve credit for recognizing that the conservative arguments against us are hollow and built on foundations of sand.


Sapere Aude

[stephaniec]

yes , It did come to that conclusion. We need all the help we can get.

"The existence of separate but equal public restrooms is an intolerable imposition on this right to self-definition, this right to live out to the fullest my own sense of self, however fluid that sense may be — so the argument before the Court will go. And I further predict that SCOTUS will accept that argument and order the elimination of men's and women's public restrooms."  This is just common sense.

[suzifrommd]

I actually liked the article. The point that people aren't "thinking" about transgender people, they're reacting to us is an important one. I wish there were a lot more thinking and a lot less reacting.

Though I don't think being transgender is entirely about "self understanding" as the article suggests. That's a minimization of our identities, implying we made them up out of whole cloth.