DiscussionWhy do LGB Alliance and LGN keep giving a platform to Julie Bindel, when she repeatedly makes homophobic and biphobic claims?

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[–]HelloMomo 17 insightful - 1 fun17 insightful - 0 fun18 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I don't much like or agree with her, but I am basically in favor of heterodoxy. We still don't really have much in terms of conclusive scientific evidence of how sexual orientation forms. If she has a controversial take on that, ok then.

Mostly, I'm just quite against the forming of a new orthodoxy which everyone must adhere to or be deplatformed.

It seems like she's what we'd call a febfem, who's found a lot of happiness in that choice. And I dunno, creating new words and them trying to enforce those words on people from older generations who didn't use those words/concepts is just too much of a TRA-style move for me to really feel comfortable with it.

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Bindel's claims are not scientific ones. They're n=1 anecdotes of herself. That's fine, I'll engage with that.

"It can’t be that there is a difference in our brains, because it would have been discovered by now…"

A heightened desire for scientific knowledge does not produce it more quickly. Lack of scientific output does not predicate an answer. I appreciate Bindel's faith in those of us that practice the discipline, but we're not magicians. We still don't know what causes Alzheimer's disease, and believe me, plenty of smart people are working on it. Following Bindel's logic, clearly, Alzheimer's ...can't be that there is a difference in our brains...