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[–]anxietyaccount8 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

My off-topic question: some GCs on Twitter are supporting Jordan Peterson, and are apparently fans of evolutionary psychology. I don't understand, why would "trans women have female brains" not be perfectly in line with these views?

Maybe they just joined the GC side because of the locker room and female sports issues?

[–]HouseplantWomen who disagree with QT are a different sex[S] 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Can’t say, never listened to the dude. I think it’s likely that they have become gc leaning without having an understanding of much else of what gc is about.

[–]MarkTwainiac 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Then again, it could be because some of us have been "GC" for many decades and we've always read & listened to people with a wide variety of ideas, and have no problem being friends with or fans or people whose views diverge from our own. I haven't read/heard everything Peterson has produced, and I don't follow the dramas about his personal life, but I've read/heard/viewed a fair amount - and I don't see him as an anathema. Even if Peterson says things I disagree with, I'd still support his right to say them.

Some of the sharpest people I've met, read and heard in my life have had views very different to my own. But by engaging with them, my own thinking has become sharper. And I've made many good friends. Sorta like Ruth Bader Ginsburg and her close pal Antonin Scalia.

[–]HouseplantWomen who disagree with QT are a different sex[S] 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You raise some excellent points as usual Twain!