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  1. UN: LGBTQ Equality In America "Not Within Reach"

    That is totally understandable. I am in a similar situation where a lot of the material I have come across and read on the cross cultural and historical variance of gender, I read it quite a while ago. The Lancaster book for instance I read back in 2009. A lot of the others were in 2011/12. So...

  2. UN: LGBTQ Equality In America "Not Within Reach"

    Gender really does touch on so many of the important debates and discussions within anthropology concerning the relationship between the sociocultural and the biological. It is such a complicated and nuanced relationship. For instance it was an online friend who highlighted to me a few years ago...

  3. UN: LGBTQ Equality In America "Not Within Reach"

    Thank you! Yes, definitely! It is an incredibly complex subject. Since I am so hooked on anthropology, I have predominantly understood it from their perspectives. A lot of invaluable cross cultural and historical work has been done on it. I particularly like the work of anthropologists like...

  4. UN: LGBTQ Equality In America "Not Within Reach"

    I hope so too, since I think it is important to be familiar with the literature and data on topics you have a personal interest in. While it wasn't directed at me, I was inspired by the discussions here to further my learning on the subject of gender. That will be the final class towards the...

  5. UN: LGBTQ Equality In America "Not Within Reach"

    You are still not making the case for why the sociocultural and the biological are the same thing. Gender and sex are related but they are not the same. Gender refers to the sociocultural and sex refers to the biological. Keeping the sociocultural and biological as two separate concepts helps...

  6. Last Game/Match Watched?

    NRL Grand Final the Eels went down to the Panthers 28 - 12. Panthers were too good and simply outplayed them. Eels didn't even play bad, had a few chances to score but that defense from the Panthers was next level. As much as I wanted the Eels to win, the better team definitely took out the...

  7. What are you currently watching?

    NRL Grand Final!! Eels vs the Panthers!! Go go go the Eels!!

  8. Healthy 75-Year-Old Ends Her Life So She Won't Grow Old

    Fair point, you are correct to call me out on that. It wasn't intentional on my part, but I was doing it. The problems with this are that it is drastically at odds with the socialist agenda and secondly we live in a capitalist world. So whatever the socialist agenda is, won't have any direct...

  9. UN: LGBTQ Equality In America "Not Within Reach"

    Nicholas Dirks, Geoff Eley and Sherry Ortner

  10. Cuba passes sweeping reforms with new family code

    https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/9/26/cuba-overwhelmingly-approves-same-sex-marriage-in-referendum The Cuban government have recently passed legislation which introduces a sweeping new family code. Not only is this legislation promising for how progressive it is when it comes to advancing...

  11. UN: LGBTQ Equality In America "Not Within Reach"

    Currently we have gender referring to the sociocultural and sex referring to the biological. You are making the case that instead of having gender refer to the sociocultural it should also refer to the biological. How is this an improvement? Your replies to me in this thread itself demonstrate...

  12. UN: LGBTQ Equality In America "Not Within Reach"

    You have still not demonstrated why gender is an invalid term. I also note, yet again, that gender and sex are not the same thing. Gender refers to the sociocultural and sex refers to the biological. Furthermore you have yet to demonstrate why having two different words referring to the...

  13. Last Game Played

    Skyrim Anniversary Edition, it will be my second proper time playing through it. Will go much better this time, as last time was on PS3 and I had to stop because the lag and freezing made it unplayable.

  14. Favorite Console or PC

    I think I do have a preference for Playstation since I have been gaming on Playstation consoles since their initial one. It does tend to be the one I prefer to play as well. Although I do love my Switch and gaming PC.

  15. The Modern Republican Flag....

    To be fair, they do a pretty good job at standing for their corporate donors. Both Democrats and Republicans.

  16. DeSantis Compares Colombian Presidential Results To "Marxism In Western Hemisphere"

    On the surface level without a deep delve it looks like this could be quite a promising turn of events. Relations between Venezuela and Colombia have been restored and the border between them reopened. Ideally this will see closer ties between the two South American states. The ideal of a more...

  17. Composting people now legal in California.

    How does that have more dignity than what they are going to start offering? As neither of the options strike me as particularly egregious. It is just surprising to me that one has dignity to you and the other doesn't. Whereas they seem quite similar to me.

  18. Healthy 75-Year-Old Ends Her Life So She Won't Grow Old

    It isn't a matter of which variant of capitalism we have in any given instance as the logics of capitalism are themselves corrupting. Attempts to control capitalism will only result in the reverse happening with capitalism controlling those seeking to moderate it. We have seen this time and time...

  19. UN: LGBTQ Equality In America "Not Within Reach"

    That's fair enough. At this point it is almost like we have a dozen or so different conversations going within the same thread. Not to mention your ongoing replies to other members. For this reply I will reduce it to four major points of contention that I have. The first point is that you have...

  20. Healthy 75-Year-Old Ends Her Life So She Won't Grow Old

    No, definitely not in the sense that you are implying. Capital and society are often at odds with each other, with the logics of capitalism actively harming and undermining society. The predominant focus on increasing productivity over human needs and alternative values inflicts psychological...
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