The Irony of Contemporary Politics
Pretending to Celebrate Women in Politics While Pretending Not to Know How to Define the Term
When my students mention the progress that has been made for “women,” I ask for examples.
Like when “we” got the right to vote .
How’d that happen ?
“We” had to fight for it.
Who is “we”?
Um, women.
What humans fall correctly under that definition of the term ?
Um, whoever identifies as a women.
Ah. Does that apply the other way around, too.
Yes.
So, if one couldn’t vote because of a state rule that women couldn’t vote, and women are self-selected into the prohibited category, they could have simply un-self-selected out of the prohibited category . Is that correct ?
Um, huh ?
If only men could vote, and a man is one who self-identifies as a man, then you could just self-select as a man, and vote. What’s the problem ?
Uh.
Unless there’s something about being a woman that is not accurately captured by that self-ID definition — which is viciously, fallaciously circular, by the way.
Um, well but if you’re not a woman.
But you just said a woman is one who self-identifies as such.
Yes.
Nothing else ?
Well, an inner feeling.
Ah. Can that be faked ?
No.
But how do others know about this so-called inner feeling ?
You tell them.
And they have to take your word for it.
Yeah.
So, if you said you were a man, there’s nothing left to be said, and you could vote back then.
Uh. I wait … I gue…ss but … hmm
In any case, since only men could vote in these jurisdictions that only allowed men to vote, it was men who allowed women to vote, not women who all of a sudden allowed themselves to vote.
Uh … no …
No what ?
No [looks around for support, everyone’s face says you’re on your own] …
So men get the credit, some of whom may have been women just saying they were men. Maybe that’s how it happened.
I doubt it.
Why ?
Because people thought … oh shit I don’t know.
Here’s something you do know.
What, professor ?
You know that there is a correct definition of woman, and that you did not provide it, for reasons of trying to fit in to what you thought others wanted to hear. You didn’t have courage to define it correctly for social , peer pressure reasons.
[Silence].
TRP Podcast is all over that with Pepperdine University Logic Professor Dr. Tomas Bogardus, Ph.D.
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