Should a better question to"What's a woman?"be"What's a female brain"?

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[–]ClassroomPast6178 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Q: What is a female brain?
A: The brain inside the skull of a biological female.

Whether or not a “female brain” or “male brain” exists, there is no mechanism by which they could get mixed up as the brain is just another part of the body and not some magical box - no matter how much you might feel that you are the little man inside looking out on the world.

As for any other concoction to explain mismatches in “gender identity” they all degenerate into magic man done it, because they all match the definition of a soul, and if we are going to allow that to dictate public policy and legal discussions/decisions then it becomes a little hypocritical to ignore all the other beliefs that posit a soul, and in addition to that it actually makes contraception a horror show - all those millions of sentient souls being callously destroyed.

It’s not just nonsense, it is what Jeremy Bentham would have described as “nonsense on stilts”, as for it to be true would upend our entire understanding of the world.

[–]jacques1102[S] 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

This is what i find odd about this whole ideology.Atheists(not all but mostly left wing ones.)who would find those that feel as though there is a soul because of how a person "feels" would find you delusional.Yet, for some strange reason there are some that choose to believe a transgender person is actually someone trapped inside the wrong body and it's some how not a mental illness.

[–]ClassroomPast6178 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Tell me about it. I’m a left-wing atheist and I’ve watched lots of my atheist friends fall completely for this shit, and the fervour with which they defend their new belief is every bit as zealous as the creationists and Westboro Baptists that they used to laugh at.

[–]FlyingKangaroo 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It’s an interesting process. I knew two people in real life, they weren’t atheists from the start but I’d say they were kind of liberal Christians/capable of some Christian-like belief but maybe not caring much about religion and most people’s attitudes to it. They became atheists (although one said as well she had some sort of “her own religion”, never elaborating on it) but the more atheist these two became, the more zealous they were about queer stuff. Not a surprise since one (with “her own religion”) was trans FTM and the other, also female, became NB later. While the NB one was much more aggressive in a way of being anti-Christian, I wondered why they’re capable of supporting so much irrational things as the trans stuff, if they’re against religion (or at least, the mainstream representation of that). The orientation & gender stuff is their new religion, I guess, so they have to defend it...