Tea at Trianon: Gender is Binary

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Friday, November 2, 2018

Gender is Binary

From Matt Walsh:

Indeed, if sex is not binary, if there really is a liquidy spectrum of hundreds or thousands of different genders, then there should be a Venn diagram with "Can get pregnant" in one circle and "Can get others pregnant" in the other, and millions upon millions of people in the intersecting circle in the middle. But there isn't. There is no one in that middle circle. There is no middle circle at all. Every human belongs to the male circle or the female and nobody has ever crossed from one to the other. It looks like we have ourselves a binary system, by definition.

Now, obviously there are people who possess neither capability. Sterility and infertility certainly exist. But these are the result of illness, deformity, or old age. They do not disprove the principle. In principle, men can get women pregnant and women can get pregnant by men. A malfunctioning reproductive system does not undermine that rule or provide evidence for a spectrum. For a spectrum to be proven, we would need evidence of people who truly exist between these two categories. I know that color is a spectrum because of the existence of secondary colors. Mix red and yellow and you get orange. So, when it comes to sex, where is the orange? Where is the person who possesses the functioning characteristics of both ends, thereby creating the blend, or the link, that truly makes a spectrum?

I'll tell you where that person exists: in the fevered imagination of liberals. Nowhere else. And, actually, even if this weird fairy tale character could be found in reality, it still wouldn't legitimize transgenderism. Transgenders are biological men or biological women who identify as the opposite sex. The hypothetical existence of a biological male/female hybrid would do nothing to prove the validity of transgenderism among biological males and biological females. Yet it would at least prove that gender is not such a simple concept. It would give us evidence of a real spectrum.

But no such evidence exists. Because gender is binary. The science, on this issue, is settled. (Read more.)

julygirl said...: I do not know why this is even up for debate. Gender is a fundamental scientific fact unless one is of a lower form such as the earthworm or in the case of certain sea creatures. Mere humans cannot decide to create or deny a gender for themselves.; November 3, 2018 at 11:51:00 AM EDT