Like you I don’t agree with much of what Burkett said and a lot of her language was fairly transphobic, but I do think the piece posed an interesting and important question. What does make a woman? I find it curious that self identity has gained such primacy in the current debate when surely lived experience and…

Let me expand that a little as I didn’t have time to say much more. In all of the rush to decry another aged TERF, particularly in a column arguing that she failed to use reason and got caught up in her emotions, all the commenters basically fail to deal effectively with any of the premises of Burkett’s argument.

Jenner doesn’t get to decide who’s a woman either. Jenner’s “choice” was to remain a gender non-conforming freak on the cover of the National Enquirer or a glamor girl on the cover of Vanity Fair—and under those pressures, what did her choice actually mean? When the media punished her gender non-conformity with…

it’s a little much that all of you are letting this bit of the above column go in the rush to condemn burkett for being old:

I actually agree with a lot of what Burkett wrote. I also think calling her names and using a poor photo to sway your readers is crass and childish.

The NYT piece wasn’t necessarily argued well but I also take issue with this autor’s rhetoric about Burkett’s feelings. Elsewhere, we rage against the idea that the only kind of “acceptable” dialogue is a disaffected ‘objective’ one, an argument that men have been using to derail women’s contributions to a discussion…

What I find fascinating in terms of dialogue is that all a man has to do to now be considered able to understand the female experience is declare he’s a woman and really mean it. I’m not saying this is incorrect (and have no real idea whether it is or not) but it’s interesting considering the argument about men not…

Dearest shoegal, if you ever choose to have a baby I hope that within 4 weeks you're physically ready to return to work. It sounds like that's not your path, and to each their own, I'm not saying that that is wrong AT ALL. If you had seen me or any number of my friends at 4 weeks postpartum you would have said "pink…

You're right, giving birth is the same as taking a fucking vacation to Hawaii OHMYGOD I don't even want kids and you annoy me.

Could she be talking about how USA is the only industrialized Nation that does not offer paid maternity leave.

People who hate Jez but comment constantly anyway: THIRSTY

Oh, my GOD, THIS FUCKING MANSPLAINING ASSHOLE. He's a walking talking animate tweed jacket elbow patches.

So you don't know what words mean. If you believe in determinism (and you do) then you believe our fates are laid out and we have no control over them so no, you don't believe in impulse control. You can not. So you have both argued that impulse control does and does not exist. You aren't very good at trolling.

Boy I really wish fate would quit forcing you to write such insane bullshit!

It's like you sat in on two lectures of an intro to philosophy class in undergrad and you think everyone should take your deranged ideas seriously now because you're such an enlightened thinker. Or you're just a mildly successful troll. Either one.

Uhhh....yeah...except nobody's ever proven people don't have freedom of will. Your little fantasy of people being slaves to some innate programming is the narrative that doesn't match reality. If you have some sort of peer-reviewed articles that say something beyond that certain people are more predisposed towards a…

Please name these scientists who have disproven that people have control over their impulses and please inform the medical community that an inability to control one's impulses should no longer be treated as psychological disorders (as they currently are).

No one's missing your point, it's just that your point is stupid, sexist, and shows up EVERY TIME THIS GETS DISCUSSED. You're a dumb fucking misogynist playing the fake persecution game. It's as tiring as shit like porno spidey up there.

Yeah, yeah, there's a double standard. When it swings our way, we get more power, more freedom, and entirely better lives than women do. When it swings their way, they get to make 'sexist' jokes and draw cartoon dicks. I'm crying into my neckbeard about how unfair life is to me as a man.

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