My focus, in this case, is on the nature of science advocacy and the use of celebrity status over knowledge.

But if we’re going to talk about what he specifically says, let me start with this “consensus” nonsense. That one ticks me off, and shows a lack of understanding on Nye’s part. Consensus among scientists means…

Yep. So do I. An engineer isn’t a scientist. Hell, a scientist isn’t much of a scientist these days. Did yo know that most people pursuing a doctorate in a field of science never have to take a single philosophy of science course? Philosophy of science is the subject which addresses what science is, what it can do,…

They do. B.S. in Mathematics, A.S. in Engineering, A.S. in Computer Science, minor in anthropology, and I have formal education in a large number of other areas of science. I’ve also spent a lot of time researching the nature of science, and can cite various philosophers of science such as Hume and Popper to support…

I’m really tired of someone with limited understanding of the scientific process, no formal education on climate dynamics, and little more than a B.S. in mechanical engineering, “explaining” such things, as if he’s an expert on the topic.

Sadly that’s the nature of most science “spokespeople.”

Does anyone actually believe that China will do anything close to what they say? Come on.

My head literally explodes when people misuse the word “literally.”

GENDER IS A ROLE

Take a general anthropology course before telling someone else that he doesn’t know what the fuck he’s talking about, right? Gender is a cultural construct. That doesn’t mean that it’s randomly pulled out of thin air. I also defined it for you already. Pay attention. I generally charge for tutoring sessions. You’re…

As I said, wallow in your ignorance.

It’s related. And what I was pointing out is that what we think of as being terms denoting biological conditions, they’re really cultural. None of the following are biological terms: boy, girl, man, woman, child, adult.

As you say, when a boy becomes a man happens to do with when we think a child becomes an adult. And that is a culturally defined concept. So now you should understand that boy and man, while related to sex and to biological factors, are different from them.

Gender is a cultural construct, related to, but separate from sex, which defines roles of people in society. Masculine and feminine are not stereotypes. They are genders qualities.

> However, boy, man, girl and woman are biological terms. In ALL cultures aa boy is a male that has not reached maturity.

Really? They’re biological? So when does a boy become a man? 13? 18? 21? Hmm? If it’s biological, it shouldn’t vary from culture to culture. It should be when a certain biological factor changes.…

Woman and man are cultural constructs. They are based on, but different from sex. It’s easy to see the cultural vs biological distinction by asking “when does a boy become a man?” If boy and man were simply biological, this would be universal. However, it’s not. Some cultures a boy becomes a man around 13. Sometimes…

Alright. A bit of history about the use of the term “gender.” Until about 1955, it was used to refer to categories of words: masculine, feminine, neuter, etc. It wasn’t until John Money that the term began to be used to genuinely categorize humans. And he specifically chose the term to mean a cultural, not biological,…

It wasn’t. Maybe you should actually research the topic before commenting on it. Until John Money used it as a distinction between biological and cultural/psychological characteristics, gender usually referred to categories of words (masculine, feminine, neuter, etc). In other words, it came into widespread use,…

Almost. Boy is still different, because she does not act like a boy. But her gender is in many ways similar. What I am pointing out is that boy, girl, man, woman, masculine, feminine, etc are cultural distinctions. They are not biological distinctions. They are related to sex, but they are not the same thing.

And…

No. It is not stereotyping. It is assigning a gender to a sex. Male and female is not the same as masculine and feminine.

Screw political correctness. I just think that it’s important to understand biological vs cultural divisions of individuals. Consider a boy vs a man. Are those a matter of sex or are they a matter of gender? They’re a matter of gender. Hell, what do we call a young female who acts in the way that young males tend to…

Gender is cultural, while sex is biological. It is important to understand the distinction.