From: atropos@mac.com   
      
   On Jan 15, 2026 at 8:27:42 PM PST, "moviePig"  wrote:   
      
   > On 1/15/2026 10:29 PM, BTR1701 wrote:   
   >>  On Jan 15, 2026 at 3:33:58 PM PST, "moviePig"  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>  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.   
   >>   
   >>  An adult female member of the species Homo sapiens sapiens, characterized   
   by   
   >>  double X chromosomes and a physiology purposed toward bearing young.   
   >   
   > Well, your reference to 'female' already begs the question.  So does   
   > "purposed". with its presumption of (divine?) authority.   
      
   Things can be naturally purposed in the sense of evolutionary function. No   
   appeal to an invisible sky tyrant required.   
      
   > Basically, you're appealing to common sense ...   
      
   And that's surely the last thing we want to be doing, amirite?   
      
   > which is fine until   
   > you're confronted by monetarily motivated borderline instances.   
      
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