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From:
Rjyan Kidwell
To:
Lee Azzarello , IDM
Date:
Wed, 6 Dec 2000 00:33:53 -0500
Subject:
Re: [idm] Walter/Wendy Carlos
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quoted 2 lines <not sarcastic>Oooooh, gender and identity politics. True, but in the> <not sarcastic>Oooooh, gender and identity politics. True, but in the > English language if you have a penis, like it or not, you're a man.
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quoted 1 line politics are fluid but biological facts are not.> politics are fluid but biological facts are not.
except when they are. it is often up to the doctor delivering a child to determine the child's sex. it is not all that uncommon for a baby to be born with a penis that is abnormally small, so the doctor will do a little splice and snip job and presto! you have a baby girl. Same thing can happen when a doctor botches a circumcision really badly. Some thinkers have used data about occurances like this to try and throw the whole idea of polarized, set-in-stone sex differences into question. If you're interested in seeing the full treatment, the only author I can really think of off my head is Pat Califia, but there are others, too. and obligatory musical content: RIP Big Pun -rk --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org