[I agree generally with John O'Brian here in his generalizations but I don't see that as in conflict with Hari's paper]
So...again, while I agree that the context for this paper is very oddly the very narrow "ML" currents in the world today it could just as easily been addressed without references to such groups. It just stuck out as weird to me why the focus on such organizations. It think the paper could of been broken in two, one dealing withe actual science of gender and sex specifically, and then one dealing with political organizations, none of which appear to have any expertise in science at all. I would of included the very sad case of Stalinist Russia as well in this because though it is very, very interesting, doesn't quite add much to the discussion of the science. I did appreciate the research done to specify the reasons the USSR abandoned and then turned on that country's gay community. Very sad that has huge political implications based on the political climate in the USSR, not just on that one issue but other issues concerning the subject of sex and gender. I did read through this very long essay. I thought overall save for my criticism in the first paragraph, it was truly an excellent attempt at clarification. My hat goes off to Hari in this very, very serious effort. I would say that in the very beginning where Hari sets up what he believes are the two positions staked out by the sides in this debate is overly simplistic and simply not accurate, at least not impressionisticly on my part. Most folks who defend the thesis that transgenderism is based on gender identity do not dismiss the biological science at all, they simply reject the idea that biology determines destiny alone. Overall I'm very glad Hari penned this giant essay. If he "cleaned it up" and removed the references to MLism he could submit this to all sorts of journals on the left that would republish it. David -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#29285): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/29285 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/104713347/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
