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  1. Apr 2019
    1. In defying this patriarchy we are loyal to future generations and to life and this planet itself.

      Powerful words, resonant rallying cry

    2. "Ecofeminism, a 'new term for an ancient wisdom

      Oh, nice. I like that, tying back to wisdom before the scientific revolution, which we now know to have been so steeped in patriarchy.

  2. Mar 2019
    1. . Meanwhile lots of other genetic and physiological variations - such as height - confer advantages on some lucky competitors, and yet we make no effort at all to segregate these athletes in the name of ‘fairness’.

      Never something that would have occurred to me but of course it makes more sense to have height or even leg length as a category for say, olympic runners, than it does gender. Much more apples and apples. Let's pit a 5'11 female runner against a 5'3 male and wait for the "That's not fair"s to come out. Much more logical.

    2. there are various kinds of sex, such as chromosomal sex or hormonal sex, and all of us exist across several spectrums of sexual identity.

      This makes complete sense based on our prior readings. Gender as a spectrum. Infinitely more sense than "more than half of the population is just confused."