How We Are Overcomplicating Gender with Alex Byrne

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How We Are Overcomplicating Gender with Alex Byrne

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Alex Byrne teaches in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His main interests are philosophy of mind (especially perception), metaphysics (especially color), and epistemology (especially self-knowledge). A few years ago, he started working on philosophical issues relating to sex and gender. To make matters worse, he recently finished a book on these topics, Trouble with Gender: Sex Facts, Gender Fictions, which will be out in the UK in October (later in the US).
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@NinjaKittyBonks 6 ай бұрын

I am 59 yo. Never in my wildest nightmares, would I have ever conceived we would live in the world we see today. Truth is under attack and tearing the fabric of society apart and by the time we figure out how to save it, I am nearly 100% convinced it will be too late to save it😢

@gethelp6271 6 ай бұрын

you and your litter paws leaving traces all over the internet...

@catherinerobilliard7662 6 ай бұрын

I still have hope that sanity will prevail. Too many people are still unaware of the danger inherent within gender ideology but slowly the truth of its effect is beginning to be known.

@NinjaKittyBonks 6 ай бұрын

@@gethelp6271 😼

@michaellovullo7363 6 ай бұрын

Your pseudonym is a direct reflection of what you need to do. @gethelp6271

@thucydides7849 6 ай бұрын

I am 26, just be glad you got to live in a time before all of this insanity lol. I was just lucky enough to be born early enough to get through public school without being subjected to absurd gender nonsense. For that I’m grateful, but the future is dim for sure

@EarthlingEveryman-zv7bs 6 ай бұрын

9:33 "If there was a prize for the most confusing word in the English language, "gender" would sweep the field. ... using the word "gender" to mean anything other than "sex" only piles confusion on confusion." Alex Byrne, Denver 2023.

@user-jf3lo6ss2i 6 ай бұрын

Sex is binary and immutable and matters in certain areas of life, gender is the behaviours/expression etc associated with male and female, it is a spectrum between feminine and masculine with gender neutral in the centre and it is SOCIALLY CONSTRUCTED, that is probably the most important bit. The problem is that trans ideology suggests that people have an innate gender identity, this suggests something "real" or fixed, whereas a gender identity is socially constructed - so pink for girls and blue for boys. Trans people can have things from the "gender spectrum" which are feminine or masculine and not typically associated with their sex but it does not literally make them the opposite sex, their gender identity is a social construct and their biological sex cannot be changed.

@zeenuf00 6 ай бұрын

@user-jf3lo6ss2i gender is a synonym for sex, and is immutable and unchangeable.

@TheCompleteGuitarist 6 ай бұрын

@@zeenuf00 It is not a useful nor even necessary synonym for sex. Sex is binary. You either produce large gametes and carry a fetus or you produce small gametes in large quantities. There is no third or infinite option nor is it possible to change from one function to the other regardless of how many amphibians or reptiles can. We are mammals. That is the end of the story.

@thejcquartet6943 6 ай бұрын

Yes. If someone uses that word without offering their definition then I just ignore everything they say as it's bound to be bullshit. Better still, just don't use it.

@user-jf3lo6ss2i 6 ай бұрын

@@zeenuf00 People use it as a synonym for sex but it actually has a far more nuanced meaning (look up the dictionary definition).

@mikehunt.1609 6 ай бұрын

The word "GENDER" is a Latin word and just means a group of anything, and comes from a family of Latin words still in use, genus, genre and general, it does not mean and cannot mean a spectrum or a variety, it means the opposite. When people use the word gender, they are actually referring to the spectrum of Masculinity and Femininity. Men can be feminine and women can be masculine and we are all a shade of both regardless of our sex.

@zeldagoblin 6 ай бұрын

You can't profess to know what it is to which people are referring when they use the word "gender". You can only know what you mean by it, and what those mean who express what they mean by it. I used to use it when I was referring to sex. Now, I don't use it in my own speech, as its new meaning is purely ideological and political. Whatever you may think about the term, it doesn't change the fact that humans' sex cannot be changed. Not with surgery, nor chemicals.

@Medina-bk2fo Ай бұрын

No, when people use the word "g3nder," it's because a decade of and half a decade of extreme activism has successfully collapsed the phrase "G3NDER ROLE STEROTYPES' [ < S3X ROLE STEREOTYPES] into "g3nder," which are the amalgam of ancient beliefs that the tr@nsg3nderists only WISH were real. Has nothing to do with the '-inities.'

@jumblyman 6 ай бұрын

Wow an academic philosopher with a fantastic sense of humour. Not familiar with Alex but will be following up his input on this issue.

@bobbresnahan8397 6 ай бұрын

Excellent! Thanks for the jokes. Certainly the most dreary issue, but we must confront this shameful topic. Shameful? Why, necause it is so stupid.

@user-fw2dd2cy3c Ай бұрын

Philosophy has beclowned itself in the last ten years by completely capitulating to the insane left. The concept *woman* (also: *man* ) is a simple one. Most American philosophers are the immediate intellectual descendants of philosophers who considered themselves to be analyzing concepts. *Woman* should be child's play for any philosopher trained in the analytic tradition. Instead, these philosophers either jumped on the lunatic left bandwagon or cowered in the corner. Analytic philosophers never had a clear success. But that makes sense in retrospect. You have no chance of analyzing concepts like *knowledge* , *justification*, *truth* or *causation* if you can't manage to figure out that a woman is an adult, female human...

@rosablume4346 Күн бұрын

well, it seems to me that is a weirdly american problem. I would consider myself left-ish, considered for Europe, could be that this is a "rabid commie" in the US, having said that, I do love science, alsways like to search for the truth and can only shake my head about the trans-mania that is taking place at the other side of the pond. FUnny thing, I am a tall, totally non-gender confirming woman, just turned out that way, but made my peace with not fitting in. I think it is really important to teach acceptance and a kind of tolerance or wellcoming of the wide variety of shapes and sizes the human body can appear in. A scalpel will never lighten your mood, and if you have serious psychological problems, they will stay with you after transitioning. Anyone promising otherwise is a liar