More attacks on academic freedom. Thank you for this excellent article. I was surprised (although I should not have been) at what is happening in this field.
I'm so glad for this article, actually! After the AGP apologist post from the author of The Man Who Would be Queen, with his dithering with machines to register "sexual response!"
Michael Bailey an AGP apologist? I must have missed something.
I've always thought that Bailey has done a great service to the sex realist cause by exposing that male-to-female transsexuals suffer from a highly disordered form sexuality that makes it virtually impossible for them to have healthy emotional/sexual relationships with others.
Now, I realize that the preceding sentence expresses my own value judgements and that Bailey was probably neutral on the moral implications of AGP. However, without his description of the AGP phenomenon, gender critical people wouldn't have a solid foundation from which to criticize men who claim to identify as women.
Otherwise society might fall for the relatively innocuous notion that male-to-female trans people were just "born in the wrong body."
Yes, make value judgements. Ray Blanchard is the originator of the autogynophile label. I'd say what you might have missed is Bailey's quite accepting and normalizing statements from the past, before it became a social contagion fueled by pornography. The sexologists, generally, are the ones making no value judgements on dangerous, deluded, porn-addicted crossdressers when in fact many women have been hurt, children psychologically damaged by fathers demanding to be called mothers. Ray Blanchard's famous inconsiderate quote about us trans widows is, "Oh, well! The women don't like it." Check out my yt channel, Trans Widow Ute Heggen for the sole data in the world on our experiences, such as exactly sexologist types telling us to pretend to be a male having sex with our pretending to be female husband, "to keep your family together." This literally happened to me, with a PhD psychologist my then husband went to, who was trained exactly by Blanchard and Bailey at conferences. Here's a link to Behind the Looking Glass, the documentary about us. I'm in the second half:
I've grown to despise the words "harm" and "safe"... The absurd tiptoeing around so-called "indigenous" cultures has careened well beyond respectfulness and into the truly pathological.
Expunging images and evidence of another culture seems the very opposite of respect and decency. Indeed, one feels almost as if the past is being expunged so that it might be rewritten.
I grew up in early period woke Madison, Wisconsin, where the radicals bombed the physics building, killing a Swiss researcher and father of an infant daughter, "in protest" during the 1970s. The reverb from the bomb was such that I woke up at 3 am, thinking we had an earthquake, later thought I'd dreamed it. Just, damn them. Tell them about trans widows, the wives of these men they think they are protecting. (typically white, middle class, educated)
I just sent this out to a number of the Leftist radicals working on their totalitarian plans:
Thanks for this beautifully written and cogent case. I am so sorry that your discipline has gone the way of the other human sciences. Maybe we now need an interdisciplinary response. (My background is in clinical psychology and medical sociology.)
This must be explained by some cycle of human cognitive drift as the type of people going into the career of anthropology would advocate for open research and publishing to enhance and progress learning in that field of study. If these people are now advocating for damaging their own field of study for reasons of modern cultural sensitivity... they have drifted 180 degrees off course. They are more political activists than anthropologists.
Science is cannibalizing itself into a mess of ideological agendas. We used to rely on science to be the tonic to that.
I loved your book "Warpath". It was refreshing after the 200 pages of preaching by Raff in "Origins". At some point, science should govern what we do, as happened in teaching evolution over creationism or Intelligent Design. We are almost insulting people by kowtowing to their superstitions, aren't we? I live in fear that if my skeleton is retrieved in 500 years I'll be called a transman since I'm in pants and own a lot of tools.
Thank you, Dr. Weiss, for all of your efforts. I feel sorry for these people. A culture that has so little interest in a scientific understanding of its origins is unlikely to take a scientific approach to its future.
You have sustained incredible challenges in your work, and it is phenomenal to see the complete liquidation of science into medieval religious superstition. It has no real antecedent except for Catholic suppression of medieval astronomy, medicine and early chemistry.
One wonders what will happen with Lucy and other possibly pre-human remains.
Their ancestors would usually be dismissive of such small-mindedness. We live in such anti-science days, seeming to crave magic, and ghosties.
When you ask some people permission, (or ask their opinion), many won't be able to resist the offered chance to cause disruption and difficulty. It's exciting! Power! It may help to put the question to the group, or even take a vote, but sadly, groups of people too, can grab a chance to get the thrill of making others endeavours more difficult.
No organization or institution which implements policies like these should receive a cent of taxpayer money, for any reason. You want to implement ideological dogma? Fund it yourself. The taxpayer expects to get value for money. Otherwise, they're just setting up a cult on our dime.
More attacks on academic freedom. Thank you for this excellent article. I was surprised (although I should not have been) at what is happening in this field.
I'm so glad for this article, actually! After the AGP apologist post from the author of The Man Who Would be Queen, with his dithering with machines to register "sexual response!"
Michael Bailey an AGP apologist? I must have missed something.
I've always thought that Bailey has done a great service to the sex realist cause by exposing that male-to-female transsexuals suffer from a highly disordered form sexuality that makes it virtually impossible for them to have healthy emotional/sexual relationships with others.
Now, I realize that the preceding sentence expresses my own value judgements and that Bailey was probably neutral on the moral implications of AGP. However, without his description of the AGP phenomenon, gender critical people wouldn't have a solid foundation from which to criticize men who claim to identify as women.
Otherwise society might fall for the relatively innocuous notion that male-to-female trans people were just "born in the wrong body."
Yes, make value judgements. Ray Blanchard is the originator of the autogynophile label. I'd say what you might have missed is Bailey's quite accepting and normalizing statements from the past, before it became a social contagion fueled by pornography. The sexologists, generally, are the ones making no value judgements on dangerous, deluded, porn-addicted crossdressers when in fact many women have been hurt, children psychologically damaged by fathers demanding to be called mothers. Ray Blanchard's famous inconsiderate quote about us trans widows is, "Oh, well! The women don't like it." Check out my yt channel, Trans Widow Ute Heggen for the sole data in the world on our experiences, such as exactly sexologist types telling us to pretend to be a male having sex with our pretending to be female husband, "to keep your family together." This literally happened to me, with a PhD psychologist my then husband went to, who was trained exactly by Blanchard and Bailey at conferences. Here's a link to Behind the Looking Glass, the documentary about us. I'm in the second half:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Frffv2sB8zE
I've grown to despise the words "harm" and "safe"... The absurd tiptoeing around so-called "indigenous" cultures has careened well beyond respectfulness and into the truly pathological.
Expunging images and evidence of another culture seems the very opposite of respect and decency. Indeed, one feels almost as if the past is being expunged so that it might be rewritten.
I grew up in early period woke Madison, Wisconsin, where the radicals bombed the physics building, killing a Swiss researcher and father of an infant daughter, "in protest" during the 1970s. The reverb from the bomb was such that I woke up at 3 am, thinking we had an earthquake, later thought I'd dreamed it. Just, damn them. Tell them about trans widows, the wives of these men they think they are protecting. (typically white, middle class, educated)
I just sent this out to a number of the Leftist radicals working on their totalitarian plans:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R51-5J-DptQ&t=323s
Thanks for this beautifully written and cogent case. I am so sorry that your discipline has gone the way of the other human sciences. Maybe we now need an interdisciplinary response. (My background is in clinical psychology and medical sociology.)
This must be explained by some cycle of human cognitive drift as the type of people going into the career of anthropology would advocate for open research and publishing to enhance and progress learning in that field of study. If these people are now advocating for damaging their own field of study for reasons of modern cultural sensitivity... they have drifted 180 degrees off course. They are more political activists than anthropologists.
Science is cannibalizing itself into a mess of ideological agendas. We used to rely on science to be the tonic to that.
I loved your book "Warpath". It was refreshing after the 200 pages of preaching by Raff in "Origins". At some point, science should govern what we do, as happened in teaching evolution over creationism or Intelligent Design. We are almost insulting people by kowtowing to their superstitions, aren't we? I live in fear that if my skeleton is retrieved in 500 years I'll be called a transman since I'm in pants and own a lot of tools.
Right! Not just pants for me, overalls!
I knew that wokeist bs was everywhere, but I gasp that the crazy has sunk to such mindboggling depths!
Thank you, Dr. Weiss, for all of your efforts. I feel sorry for these people. A culture that has so little interest in a scientific understanding of its origins is unlikely to take a scientific approach to its future.
PS: Margaret Mead was a hack.
Excellent comprehensive summary.
You have sustained incredible challenges in your work, and it is phenomenal to see the complete liquidation of science into medieval religious superstition. It has no real antecedent except for Catholic suppression of medieval astronomy, medicine and early chemistry.
One wonders what will happen with Lucy and other possibly pre-human remains.
Utterly medieval.
Fascinating. I did not know about this
Their ancestors would usually be dismissive of such small-mindedness. We live in such anti-science days, seeming to crave magic, and ghosties.
When you ask some people permission, (or ask their opinion), many won't be able to resist the offered chance to cause disruption and difficulty. It's exciting! Power! It may help to put the question to the group, or even take a vote, but sadly, groups of people too, can grab a chance to get the thrill of making others endeavours more difficult.
No organization or institution which implements policies like these should receive a cent of taxpayer money, for any reason. You want to implement ideological dogma? Fund it yourself. The taxpayer expects to get value for money. Otherwise, they're just setting up a cult on our dime.
Very depressing. We really seem to be in The Dark Ages 2.0