As others have noted in this thread, and as I've noted many times on this site, feminists spent decades saying gender was a completely made up social construct and there were no intrinsic non physical differences between men and women. Anyone who disagreed was a sexist bigot. Now they are saying gender is an innate part of people's identities and if you disagree and take the same position they had about five years ago then you're still a bigot. Understandably there's some confusion here.
It's even more confusing when they continue to use the "OMGEE, GENDER ISN'T REAL" rhetoric in every other context besides trans issues and insist there are no differences between men and women, unless you're a transman/woman, in which case your gender is the defining tenet of who you are.
Feminist "theory" has been pretty incoherent for a long time, but geez, this might be a new low.
Um sweetie, why does everything have to make sense and be logical to you? Are you still hung up on the outdated idea that words have to have objective meaning? Is a little cognitive dissonance really that big a price to pay for supporting trans youth? That's a yikes from me my dude; I'm literally shaking rn.
These are all decent points, but none of them really address the thread title.
Dawkins is the Jungian archetype of an Arrogant Twitter Academic. Other examples include Nassim Taleb, Debra Soh, and Gad Saad. Such people may be talented in their own fields, but they are so overwhelmed by those who love them that they tweet out stuff which is just plainly nonsense. See Dawkins “apology” tweet which may be the worst argument in human history.
https://mobile.twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/1381665011127451652
“I would never agree with Republicans!”
It's a pretty bad argument, but also, as I put it last month:
Look, it's just easier to feel ever more comfortable when you have created a walled garden, where the only people who agree with you on any issue of significance are the "good people"™. The "bad people"™ agreeing with you, regardless of context, is enough to make you very likely to feel uncomfortable. It's so odd not to want more people to agree with your stance on an issue, but here we are. It's infantile, I agree, but sadly normal. Politics isn't a set of beliefs - it's a lifestyle! Only cool people can have this lifestyle! Or even the smallest shred of it!
