This academic book by American and other scholars explores historical, textual, and social questions relating to the position and experience of women and gay people in the Buddhist world from India and Tibet to Sri Lanka, China, and Japan. It focuses on four key areas:
And it covers Buddhism's entire history, from its origins to the present day. The result of original and innovative research, the authors offer new perspectives on the history of the attitudes toward, and of the self-perception of, women in both ancient and modern Buddhist societies.
They explore key social issues such as abortion, they examine the use of rhetoric and symbols in Buddhist texts and cultures, and they discuss the neglected subject of Buddhism and homosexuality (from pandakas and pederasty). (Edited by Jose Ignacio Cabezón)
Pseudohermaphroditism leads to "intersex" (the "I" in LGBTQIA+ acronym, showing an unbelievable spectrum of biological sexuality and phenotypic gender expression).
Biology and hormones are a strange thing we share with plants. Yes, plants have hormones, too, as do animals. There are, for example, intersex pigs on Vanuatu, the island of kava kava, a recreational drug plant. Are the "Lotus-eaters" on this island, as mentioned in ancient Greece.
MYTHOLOGY: In Homer's epic, The Odyssey, Book IX, Odysseus tells how adverse north winds blew him and his men off course: "I was driven thence by foul winds for a space of 9 days upon the sea, but on the tenth day we reached the land of the Lotus-eaters, who live on a food [the "intoxicating pepper" kava, Piper methysticum?] that comes from a kind of flower. Here we landed to take in fresh water, and our crews got their mid-day meal on the shore near the ships. When they had eaten and drunk, I sent two of my company to see what manner of men the people of the place might be...." More
The Buddhist term pandaka refers to non-normative gender expression in ancient times. It might be translated as "pervert" but also crossdresser, transsexual, transgender, gay, lesbian, tomboy, effeminate male, butch female, sodomite, receptive males, active females, hermaphrodite, bisexual...or an intersex person to the extent such individuals were understood in ancient India, Southeast Asia, and surrounding areas.
INTERSEX people are those born with any of several sex characteristics, including chromosome patterns, gonads, or genitals that, according to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, "do not fit typical binary notions of male or female bodies" [1, 2]. The opposite of intersex is endosex ["cisgender"], which describes persons born with sex characteristics that are seen as typically male or female at birth [3]. More
Matt Walsh and Anti-Feminist Pearl comment on gender; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly
Tucker is trans, right? Look at that makeup
Matt Walsh makes a good point. Nervous and perhaps not used to standing at a mic in front of a crowd, trans person loses steam. There are debate courses taught in college, and it seems only Republican, conservative, Christian type white males pay much attention in them. Like lawyers, they lay out their case, unquestioned assumptions and all, and proceed in a logical way to their conclusion.
Here's a good debate primer by Helen Joyce
Unless someone can quickly think on his or her feet, they're going to be devoured in the eyes of the crowd. And it's really a matter of playing to the crowd. And the crowd is the jury. One can be right and still be wrong if one loses the crowd, so "winning" an argument in front of a right leaning crowd receptive to conservative views is not going to be easy.
Practice also helps. Matt Walsh put himself through the blender in preparation for whatever someone might throw at him and how to respond effectively. One is not going to throw him off his game with a facile point or snappy quip. Both sides need to prepare for public debate. Emotionality only gets in the way.
Calm, cool, collected with clear thinking, that's the way to win. The way to truth means dealing with all the counterarguments one might face, so do not retreat to people who hold the same view. Spar with those willing to throw what will really be faced out in the world among the rabid lawyer types arguing for a fixed view.
Pearl is just funny and smart (and always smiling). Arguing against her own interest makes her lovable and easy to side with...even if we disagree. We remain feminists yet we love Pearl. More Pearl! But, Pearl, come on, think. What are we, our born natures or our socially taught nurtures (enforced gender roles)? Those were not controlled for at all in this TV "experiment." Are females not capable of learning everything males learn growing up? Of course. Put those gals on the show, and watch this argument crumble. We are products of our conditioning. Whatever we're taught, it can be overcome. We have human potential and biology is NOT destiny. It's more probability and propensity, and that does not equal fate. Though watching it a few times, it seems someone pulled out this example as if it revealed a self-evident truth. Social science is more sophisticated than that, Pearly Pearl. But keep smiling and making us giggle along with your cacacuckoo content, 'kay? 😸
"It's not natural"! Why are 21% of kids suddenly LGBTQ+?
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(The Babylon Bee) Hey, kids! Watch this very woke toy commercial from your pals at Mattel Corporation! Tired of those old, conservative dolls? Want a Barbie-safe toy? How about an androgynous action figure toy person, wouldn't that be grand? It can be yours now if you pester your parents enough and threaten your own transition. Demand they buy you "G.I. Pat" TODAY! (Pink jumper, pronoun badges, pink phone cover, and pumps sold separately!)
Ken's pregnant because it's his right!
Ken's having an identity crisis after eating estrogenic plastic: He's preggers!
So now they is a "birthing person" who "chest feeds" their babies. Pride!
NOTE: "G.I." stands for "government issue," which is what you become if you join the military that can send you anywhere to kill and be killed for empire, money, territory, and patriotism. Hooray! But for Pat it means "genderless individual," but you can call him B.I. ("better individual") Pat.
Detransitioner speaks to Mike Johnson about her prior gender transition
(Forbes Breaking News) July 28, 2023. At a recent House Judiciary Committee hearing on gender confirmation treatments for minors, detransitioner Chloe Cole spoke about her prior sex change (gender reassignment or transition) treatments, explaining that it almost killed her.
(The Babylon Bee) Space alien Gen. Florg: "How many genders are there?"
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Female? No. Male (XY)? Sort of. Weigel is intersex (born in between with testes).
One's a man, two's a woman, and three's a, wait a minute. That first one's a... Hold on. Intersex activists Sean Saifa Wall, Alicia Roth Weigel, and River Gallo share their stories in the new documentary Every Body (Focus Features).
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It's not okay to be gay in Ukraine, not at all.
Know how we're all forced to say LGBTQIA+? Few people even know what that means.
For instance, the A is for asexual, a variable term ranging from psychological introvert to biologically damaged neutered person. What's the Q for? Betcha don't know. (Hint: It's not queer). Yes, it is! No, it's not; people just think it is. That would be redundant. It means "questioning."
That means you, Robby Joiner, are LGBTQ because remember when we were kids and you said you didn't know if you were straight? You questioned it (like everybody else in existence). Haha, you noncisgender warrior! That ought to teach you to throw rocks at Kevin. What's the I for?
Intersex specimens persons at the convention
It stands for intersex (a kind of hermaphroditic or ambiguous genitalia condition, a third sex -- neither strictly male nor female -- called pandaka in ancient Buddhist and Indian texts). So what if there are a few eccentric anomalies out there?
As an intersex individual, Alicia Roth Weigel (pictured above) knows that biological sex is more complicated than two boxes on a birth certificate.
"Intersex people are born with physical traits that don't fit neatly into a 'male' or 'female' box," Weigel says. "We have combinations of hormones, chromosomes, internal reproductive organs, external genitalia that just doesn't fit neatly on one of those two binary options that you were taught in elementary biology class are the only options."
Weigel, who identifies as she/they, was born with androgen insensitivity syndrome — a condition in which a person has both X and Y chromosomes but does not respond to male hormones [so is a male but isn't or at least doesn't look like one or express the customary phenotypic characteristics of one]. Though Weigel presented as female at birth, tests revealed that she lacked a uterus and ovaries, and that she had internal testes ["balls"]. More
Redheads don't seem completely human.
There are as manty intersex persons born as there are redheads (about 2%). That means more than two out of every hundred births are ambiguous or mixed, containing both features or neither. This is not transgenderism but an actual third presentation (phenotype with backing genotype).
What's the plus for? Whatever anyone likes, such as NAMBLA's entry MAPs ("minor attracted persons"), along with what perverted-academic Alfred Kinsey started in 1948:
This week: For the intersex community, Every. Body. exists on a [sexual, gendered] spectrum:
Alicia Roth Weigel is one of three activists profiled in Julie Cohen's new documentary. She says "intersex" is an umbrella term for people whose "anatomy doesn't fit super neatly into a binary box."
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