In short, any woman throughout history who did anything except be a whiny little wallflower was a man.
We are well on the way to the idea that all women are men. Except, of course, the men who want to be women. Those men are women but nobody else is.
Please keep up.
I’m confused as to how everyone is reading the museum’s statement.
Didn’t they say that up until this point they assumed that whoever was buried with an axe was a man? And now they’re coming around to the idea that some were biological women?
They’re not saying “any woman throughout history who did anything except be a whiny little wallflower was a man”.
They’re saying that in their little niche of history they had previously assumed that any person using an axe was a man (and all the women were whiny little wallflowers who didn’t use axes). And now they no longer do.
I don’t know how they “reinterpreted” the skeletons, though. Were some skeletons smaller and they assumed they were smaller (or younger?) men? And now they’re saying they’re women? I suppose those skeletons are too old to get DNA from.
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The statement explicitly denies the existence of “biological women.” The very first words of the statement give a clue as to what it’s suggesting. So do the scare quotes around the names of the sexes.
I’m not sure if you are struggling with reading comprehension at grade school level or lack of knowledge about the surrounding reality.
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There’s no need to insult me. I understand you’re peeved they’re not saying that “some biological women were buried with axes”. That’s not denying the existence of biological women.
The specific thing I was wondering about is how this is worse than what archaeologists were doing before. They were refusing to acknowledge the exact same thing, because they were already assuming all women throughout history were whiny little wallflowers, to borrow your phrasing.
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“Didn’t they say that up until this point they assumed that whoever was buried with an axe was a man?”
Maybe you don’t have enough experience interpreting totalitarian texts…. but what it says is (rough paraphrase): More men were buried with axes than women were. Now this fact has been ‘reinterpreted’ to mean that ‘ancient people’ had a post-modern fluid picture of gender and the women buried with axes were probably trans-men (without the debilitating irreversible surgical interventions that endanger young women now).
A fair amount of cultures in human history have made space for gender non-conformists. The term berdache was used for many decades to describe a male who adopted a female social role which was found in many (not all) Native American cultures. Male social roles for women were also found in some groups though that was more rare.
Then somebody invented a term ‘two spirit’ which has no real connection to most Native American cultures that did that.
The key word is “recent reinterpretations”.
This is the clue to an understanding of the text within the foucauldian/derridean matrix – originally going back to Nietzsche and the other destroyers of Reason – that there are no scientific facts or truths, and ultimately no reality, just interpretations thereof. Whoever reads the notice in the museum is lured into falsely believing that LGBTQBlahblahblah may be a contemporary label but the substance is that lesbians and gays and transgenders have always existed and have always been part of human history in all societies throughout time.
Thus, in a subtle and dishonest way is the new template created for an ideological reshuffling of all social values. Dishonest academic discourse is at the heart of this enterprise and after colonising schools and colleges (it started in schools of education and librarianship at first, then in the schools of English and later in those of social and political sciences), it has been cuckoo-nesting its way through all areas of administration (school boards, town councils, the Alphabet agencies, the federal departments and now the White House), and civil society, including the churches.
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