Philosopher K. Stock: Interview on Radio New Zealand

Good article about and podcast interview of Philosopher Kathleen Stock, a self described “gender non-conforming lesbian.”

"I don't think even if you have radical surgical measures you can change your sex. I don't think you can change your sex. We're not that powerful, we don't have that sort of control over nature."

"In 2018, I started writing about my concerns with [gender self-identification] in relation to the [UK's] Gender Recognition Act because there was a big push at the time to get that in place… and my concerns about premature child transition and calling trans women 'lesbians' and all sorts of things I thought were problematic about gender identity as a kind of motivating legal force.

"Almost immediately that got me some attention - not good attention. People thought that I was being very cruel and couldn't understand why I was saying things like 'trans women are male' … They thought it was transphobic to say that."

Stock argues it's an untrue and harmful idea that gender identity is an aspect of a person's "inner state" and "as soon as it expresses itself it cannot be denied and must be attended to and must override any discussion of your actual sex".

Kathleen Stock: the professor who lost her career amid toxic gender debate

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Identity vs. Understanding.

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A Porn-addled Image Of Heterosexuality

Another fine article by Eliza Mondegreen. She highlights a theme I’ve mentioned for many months now: The Pornification of Western Culture and its sad effect on our young people. Especially our girls. Leading them to seek refuge from their embodied selves.

Some of what’s going on is older than dirt: there’s a tremendous and ineradicable inequality between women and men when it comes to the burdens of human sexuality and reproduction. That’s hard to accept, particularly for girls. It really is unfair. And we’re stuck with it, at least as long as we’re human. 

As if that weren’t enough to freak out the girls (and more than a few boys), just add porn. Young people today are being sold an image of heterosexuality that is porn-addled to the core, all revolving around the idea that heterosexual contact is inherently exploitative and often degrading and violent. 

Many of these kids find porn before they ever experience intimacy themselves. No wonder so many run from the real thing or seek refuge in idiosyncratic identities that they hope will exempt them from dynamics they want no part in. If the options presented to you are oppressor or oppressed.

Seeking Refuge In An Idiosyncratic Sexual Identity


From an earlier post, I wrote:

And for God’s sake, parents, let’s do what we can to keep these girls and boys from viewing degrading online porn. If young girls see that crap they might desire to opt out of “being a woman.” Especially after being “properly” trained in Gender Identity theory from Kindergarten! [See this post for details.]

Smartphones, the Internet, & Social Media are part of the problem too. Take control of the devices you pay for! And ask other parents in your circle to do the same. This matters.

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