States of Grace
Posted October 20, 2008
http://radnichole.wordpress.com/2008/10/20/states-of-grace/I would love to have a jewel in my purse for every time I have heard that "one cannot just accept what people say they feel and know. You have to have some scientific proof for that." Ah, well, Perhaps, But how many people and what types should we subject to testing in order to determine their humanity and the struggles they have to assert that in their lives? Are bible-thumpers, or other believers needful of scientific testing to determine their humanity and their worthiness to be labelled "human?" How about Republicans, or Social Democrats, or women, or men? Are Vietnamese people actually human? Has anyone scientifically tested that?
How many scientists need be subjected to enquiry and testing to determine that the songs that move through their hearts and minds are legitimately human and that we can safely count them among "normal humans?" Have lovers of the novels of Jane Austen sufficiently proven that their feelings about the author's work are legitimate? How about yourself? Have you been rigorously tested to determine whether or not the love you bear for your spouse, child, lover, mother or sister are true emotions? Have your thoughts about the current world-economic crisis been duly examined? Do your feelings of being alienated and alone, loved and held, that you are male or female, been winnowed through a sieve of scientific research to be certain that you aren't lying?
O, please don't get me wrong. I believe fully that the more exploration we have about scientific discoveries that show again and again that gender-identity, male brains in female bodies and female ones in male bodies is a legitimate human state of being, a state of grace, are necessary and positive explorations for the scientist. My friend Zoe Brain has a list of links you can read and see the scientific reults of various such tests that show pretty much without doubt that what I tell you is true about me is definitely true scientifically.
