The Mind/Body Problem
The Minnesota courts to René Descartes, "Just walk away René, we got this."
Yesterday as a casual comment in a discussion, I mentioned the mind/body problem.
Back in May of last year, I wrote:
"The ancient Greeks contemplated another type, the dualism of the mind vs. the body.
Further advanced by Rene Descartes, in the philosophy of mind, dualism is the theory that the mental and the physical, the mind and body (the physical brain), are, in some senses, radically different kinds of things. This thinking gives rise to the consideration of the mind as the person and the body as merely a cloak that is donned as a physical necessity and changed as desired.
Very roughly, you can think of it as how, when you leave home each day, you dress in different clothing from your closet. You may change the clothes according to your preferences and moods, but you are still the same person no matter which clothes you wear. Clothes may be a representation of how you feel that day or simply utilitarian coverings expected by society, but the clothes do not change the person that the world sees as you.
The more I dig into Queer Theory and the current fad of transgenderism, the more I begin to understand how this idea of dualism is a factor.
Despite neuroscience research confirming the interdependence of the mind and the brain, the idea of mind/body dualism persists and rather than conceiving of one being consisting of mind AND body, transgenders see the real person as the mind and the body as merely clothing for the mind, separate and apart."
This morning, I read of a court in Minnesota solving the mind/body problem - well, not really solving it, but illustrating that human law is completely insufficient to provide a resolution.
This court has decided it is perfectly fine to allow a biological man who believes he is a woman to compete with biological women in power lifting, a sport in which males have a distinctive advantage. A review of the USA Powerlifting American records indicates that male competitors lift, on average and across the board, 35% to 40% more weight than female competitors.
If you ever wondered why it is always transwomen filing these lawsuits and not transmen (females who think they are male), this is why. There exists an evolutionary and biological difference that cannot be overcome with any surgery or drug.
Human males and females are different, and it is not just in the mind.
In the complaint he filed to gain access to the women’s classification states “The harm is in making a person pretend to be something different, the implicit message being that who they are is less than.”
The irony is palpable here. He alleges to compete as a man, he would be “pretending to be something different” when that is exactly what he is doing by pretending to be female.
The Minnesota state court has come down on the side of the mind – essentially saying the body, the biological being, is to be ignored because the self is determined solely by the mind. You are what you think you are regardless of any other factors.
That is simply false, and provably so.
I can stare at a block of wood for days, using my mind to change it into a filet mignon – but at the end of the week of being subjected to my powerful mind ray, it will still be a block of wood. No amount of pretending will change that wood into beef.
This is not transgenderism or transhumanism, this is just pure lunacy suborned by a justice system and government dominated by either irrational people or those seeking political advantage at the cost of males and females everywhere.
This is a case of true discrimination, as it should be - but the discrimination is not to advantage or disadvantage, it is simply to recognize the real differences between male and female.
At this, the Minnesota court failed.
Minnesota Judicial system, as many other Blue state and Blue run counties, have gone to the Dark Side. The only thing missing at this point is the heavy breathing as the judges deliver their sentence.
Article right on point as usual. But what grabs my attention is the inability of the court to recognize the issue. The issue isn't whether some kind of woman is being discriminated against, as the court's opinion tells us. It's a fact issue: is this person male or female? If the person has the Y chromosome it is a male. He may have all manner of emotional and psychiatric difficulties and maladjustments but he still has that chromosome and is still a male. If he identifies as female then he is a male who identifies as a female. Being kept out of female weightlifting (and why in the world does any woman want to do that anyway?) is no more discriminatory toward him than against any other male person. Is that discrimination? Can the Minnesota court find even such an obvious fact?
Oh, I forget. A supreme court justice, the newest on the bench, has testified under oath that she doesn't know what a woman is. This whole country is a lunatic asylum. Strawberry Fields forever.