It's bizarre, bybee. Some people can't seem to get out of their own way. She could have been a champion of race relations and right without the pretense, could have used her own background as a model and a calling card. Instead she made race more important than the truth about race and in doing that inadvertently spit on the idea MLK died advancing, that the importance we place on race instead of character, the place holding assumptions and anger we pour into it are at the root of the evil we turn and do in its name.
A sad situation.
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All I can say is that this is going to be a real white mark on her permanent record. lain:
I'll be here all weak. lain:
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I don't think that explains much though. What are they feeling when they think they are in the wrong body? What is the definition of 'male' and 'female'? :idunno:Well, physically, an awful lot. Psychologically, maybe not so much. From what (little) I've read on the subject it seems that a lot of folks who go through this process have identified and felt as though they were born into the "wrong" body or "wrong" gender for quite a long time. Maybe it's just a mistake of genetics, a fluke, a wire or two that should have zigged when it zagged instead. I don't think the fluidity of gender itself has changed, but the ability to enable that fluidity has. Put another way, we finally have the means for these individuals to "properly" inhabit the body they feel they should've gotten in the first place.
Race is a completely different ballgame. You can't undo history, or ancestry, or wish away your progenitors. I can insist I'm a big blonde Swede all day long; I can demand someone recognize my authentic Korean roots; I can say I'm a Sudanese ex-pat all the livelong day. Insistence, appropriation, even admiration, does not undue your race. It's not an issue of won't; it's a matter of fact that you simply can't.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_facto...ict_fundamentalists_the_revelation_sheds.html
Think anyone's going to look at this and say "Gee: Maybe beating our kids isn't such a hot idea?"
I doubt it, but you never know.
k-mo, can you imagine if res met Rachel Dolezal? :think:
Dolezal: "Hi, my name is Rachel..."
Res: "Negro, please!"
Then he'd ask her for a date!
I don't think that explains much though. What are they feeling when they think they are in the wrong body? What is the definition of 'male' and 'female'? :idunno:
One could say about gender what you said about race in your 2nd paragraph.