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   moviePig to All   
   Re: "We Do Not Have a Definition for the   
   15 Jan 26 18:33:58   
   
   From: nobody@nowhere.com   
      
   On 1/15/2026 6:22 PM, BTR1701 wrote:   
   > On Jan 15, 2026 at 2:06:48 PM PST, "moviePig"  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 1/14/2026 10:46 PM, BTR1701 wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>   During oral argument at the Supreme Court this week, in a case where the   
   >>> Court   
   >>>   will decide the fate of state laws barring males from competing in   
   women's   
   >>>   sports, Justice Alito asked a perfectly reasonable and logical question   
   of   
   >>> the   
   >>>   attorney representing the transformers:   
   >>>   
   >>>   ALITO: For purposes of Equal Protection, for the 14th Amendment analysis,   
   >>> what   
   >>>   does it mean to be a boy or a girl?"   
   >>>   
   >>>   After a lot of stammering and hedging, the attorney replied, "We do not   
   >>> have a   
   >>>   definition for the Court."   
   >>>   
   >>>   So basically, Alito asked "What is a woman?" and (much like Ketanji   
   Jackson   
   >>> in   
   >>>   her confirmation hearing) a Harvard Law School-educated attorney standing   
   >>>   before the Supreme Court of the United States simply can't tell you what   
   a   
   >>>   woman is. The official position of the transformer community apparently   
   is,   
   >>>   "No one really knows what a woman is. It's a mystery for the ages."   
   >>>   
   >>>   Thankfully, it seems the Supreme Court is preparing to end this nonsense   
   and   
   >>>   uphold the state laws trying to eradicate this lunacy.   
   >>   
   >> That community is right: no one knows what a woman "is".   
   >   
   > Yes, we do. We've known since mankind pulled himself upright and started   
   > walking on two legs. Hell, it was known even before that. No other species in   
   > the entire biosphere seems to suffer such confusion. All other sexually   
   > dimorphic creatures on earth can tell which among them are male and which are   
   > female. Only Homo sapiens seem confused and only then just in the last decade   
   > or so.   
      
   So you can say what a woman is?  Please do.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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