From: nobody@nowhere.com   
      
   On 1/16/2026 12:30 AM, BTR1701 wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   You're assuming that evolution has a purpose, whereas a dyed-in-the-wool   
   atheist would allege that it simply happens, like gravity.   
      
      
   >> Basically, you're appealing to common sense ...   
   >   
   > And that's surely the last thing we want to be doing, amirite?   
      
   Well, as I say right here, it's absolutely fine ...until.   
      
      
   >> which is fine until   
   >> you're confronted by monetarily motivated borderline instances.   
      
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