The Absurdity of Gender

[Natasha]

The Absurdity of Gender

http://ts-si.org/guest-columns/27180-the-absurdity-of-gender
Maggie Fox   
10/19/10

Paphos, Cyprus. I am mindful of Stephen Hawking's The Grand Design to ask these basics:

1. What is the origin of gender theory?

2. Are there any exceptions to gender theory?

3. Is there only one valid gender theory?

Hawking argues that a single unified theory is only acceptable within a model-dependent realism and I agree.

So we must start with our model of sex, male and female, which immediately gives us a problem of definitions. Do we keep it simple? [(Male = has a penis)] and (Female = has a vagina)], or do we define as a neurological condition, or do we pick the Olympic Qualification Rule?

Oh dear! Let's give up on sex and do gender instead.

So the model is now a range those who identify as male at one end and female at the other — phew that's so much easier. Well he/she would say that, wouldn't they? [sick]

[lilacwoman]

Stephen Hawkin old us the pull of a black hole sucked everything in which seem sperfectly logical to me but now he says it lets some back out.  I take everything he says with a grain of blackhole dust.