tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10944560.post2972881894466285463..comments2024-01-01T08:18:36.278-05:00Comments on Real Physics: Feminism and the Experimental ExemplarLawrence Gagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01242322119143922513noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10944560.post-32673576221594741532010-10-24T19:57:25.902-04:002010-10-24T19:57:25.902-04:00Great point. But I suppose she might claim that my...Great point. But I suppose she might claim that my having a male body would prevent me from drawing on the experience of having a female body.<br /><br />LGLawrence Gagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01242322119143922513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10944560.post-90714017123167385802010-06-01T18:15:20.236-04:002010-06-01T18:15:20.236-04:00"(Notice that the anonymous commentator calls..."(Notice that the anonymous commentator calls me "a male-bodied person"—as if my masculinity were only a characteristic of my body, not my whole self. This is modern mind-body dualism: I'm not my body but a disembodied intelligence that owns my body.)"<br /><br />It is also the greatest bit of irony in an already <i>non-sequitur</i> (or <i>ad hominem</i>, depending on how you look at it) argument. It's funny how she sees no cognitive dissonance between her assertion that "YOU AREN'T [A WOMAN]" and "[you are] a male-bodied person." It's something akin to saying "how dare you criticize my driving the Hummer: you drive a BMW convertible!" If we followed her (lack of) reasoning, the body doesn't matter to your gender--yet your gender (or sex) matters immensely to whether or not you can make a statement concerning transcendent morality (which is what her short rant was really about)--indeed, in objective reality <i>writ large</i>. A material fact which is specific and particular to you says nothing about your underlying reality ("masculine," "man") to which it is tied, but everything about the general principle to which it is not.Dr. Sandershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01210899232931814200noreply@blogger.com