"Man" to Have Twins
I know it is considered rude to point out in our postmodern times when facts are contrary to the narratives. And we have been through this before with greater fanfare. But having resisted posting the "story," it finally became too much when I saw it reported again today for the umpteenth time in the last week.
Yes, another transsexual"man" is pregnant (don't forget, the first one is pregnant again)--only this time with twins! Call Oprah! Back in the real world, no man is giving birth, much less to twins. A woman is. From the story:
A 25-year-old transsexual man in Barcelona has announced that he is pregnant with twins, prompting debate in Spain about the ethical use of reproductive technology.You couldn't make up that last paragraph. But here's the point: He may be legally a man (although in this case I don't think that has happened yet,) but biologically where reproduction does not depend on narratives--only organs, hormones, and gametes--she is a biological woman. Women give birth every day. No story!
Ruben Noe Coronado Jimenez, who is reportedly nine weeks pregnant, interrupted hormone treatments and postponed plans to have a full sex-change operation in order to get pregnant because his 43-year-old girlfriend could no longer have children.
posted by Wesley J. Smith @ 8:13 PM
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6 Comments:
Yet another example of calling things whatever they want regardless of the facts.
Hi from unemployment-land!
Sorry I'm away so much. Bah, I MISS you guys!
ANYWAY!
Here's the insane thing - the same culture that puts science on a pedestal and borders on worshiping science doesn't believe in "truth!" Is it just me or is that crazy?
See, if there is no "truth," if everything is subject to our personal, individual views, then science and math don't work because they are subject to a series of laws that always work or else have very clear exceptions. One plus one does not equal seven, under any circumstances. Certain laws of gravity, space, and time are suspended when going the speed of light, but these suspensions happen under very specific, knowable circumstances.
And yet, our society is so radically individual, everyone says we can't know truth. But that's ridiculous. "Oh, we can know *scientific* truth, but there's no truth in history or literature or anything else that exists. There's only your view or mine."
Well, that's silly. Look at history - we know that five million Jews were murdered in the Holocauste. Some people insist, "No, they weren't!" But we have records, we have a scientific understanding of the "showers" that were used to gas people to death, we have bars of soap that, when examined using DNA testing, prove they were made from human fat. We have eye-witness accounts of soldiers from Australia, England, America and Canada freeing the victims in the concentration camps. And we have official records of everything that happened from the Nazi side of things.
We have *truth.* Either it is true or it is not true.
The judicial system is run by truth! If you want justice, you have to accpet that some things are true and some things are not. If everything is subjective, then nobody can go to jail. Nobody can be accused of doing any kind of evil. Evil can't exist.
So either this person is a woman or she isn't. How she feels about herself is one thing. What she is, is another. She is female, and having a baby. She is not male. That is truth. She may prefer to identify with males and treat herself like a male, but that does not make her male.
If she is male, then 1+1=7.
T E: I have pondered this: I think that people of a certain bent don't want there to be Truth, as you understand it. Hence, we each make our own "truth" based on our own narratives and beliefs. And this can shift over time. And because we want everyone to feel good about themselves, no moralism allowed.
Wesley: Bingo. Plus no moralism allowed because the other side wants no moralism.
T.E.: What a great analysis!
A lot of things are legal but are ridiculous. Like the law somewhere on the books that if two trains come to the same intersection at the same time, neither one can cross it until the other one does. (Even that one makes some sense somehow; at least it would prevent collision; but you know what I mean...)
We can't keep science in its proper place so that it serves us as it is supposed to in this atmosphere, that's for sure.
Imagine if astrology were taught as a required subject in elementary and high school along with the other sciences. Oops that would be sort of like having the kids recite the Pledge of Allegiance, wouldn't it... If it were understood as well as arithmetic is that science belongs to the sixth house, and what the sixth house means, for example, this stuff wouldn't be going on...
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