* Islam is against the most basic of
women's Human Rights. Muslim women are islam's Dhimmis. Time for a
female "last messenger"? However, islam is already killed by modernity,
i.e. by so called "Western culture", which is nothing else than a more
or less inevitable consequence of technological evolution. And in its
wake muslims desperately (or out of pure ignorance) keep hanging to a
creed that has been the world's most destructive ideology throughout
1400 years.
Shame on you America if you let Saudi whores rule you!
The islamofascist Saudi dictator family who not only rule (and monetize)
'the holy places of islam', also rule over OIC (Organization of islamic
cooperation), the world's main sharia organization which is behind UN's
"blasphemy" resolution 16/18 and US corresponding resolution tailored
by Obama and Hillary Clinton. The main objective of these resolutions is
to criminalize criticism of islamofascism.
Klevius question: What kind of religion/ideology is it that needs such eager editing away with its own origin?
Islam was spread by muslim (mujahedin) terror, which started with the slaughtering of all the Jews in Medina.
In Judaims and its copycat islam, "god" is put totally away from the
human realm, whereas in Christianity "god" steps down to humans in the
form of his suffering son (the 'anointed', i.e. MHMD).
Moses, the messenger of Judaism, didn't have a land - only a people.
However, he met with "god" who gave him the law and instructions.
Paul, a Roman citizen, was the first messenger of Christianity which
became the Roman state religion which in Arabia metastated into a
Jewish/Christian synergism as the precursor of islam. An islamic MHMD
never existed before Malik long after connected him with the Koran that
he created out of older Judeo-Christian texts spiced with conquest,
booty, enslavement, killing and rape of "infidels" etc. common Koranic
themes the Saudis and Hillary Clinton do not want us to mention.
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg lost her temper and had to
apologize for her remarks on Donald Trump. However, more importantly,
her (religiously motivated?) lack of insight in sex
segregation/apartheid is stunning.
Klevius wrote:
Klevius sex and gender tutorial
Klevius quest of the day: What's the difference between the Pope and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
Klevius hint: It's all about 'not sameness' and Human Rights! Human Rights IS 'sameness' stupid!
When God was created he was made like Adam.
When the basic idea of Universal Human Rights was created it was made like Adam AND Eve.
And for you who think heterosexual attraction, i.e. that women are
sexier than men, could be (exc)used as a reason for depriving women of
legal sameness. Please, do think again!And read Klevius Sex and Gender
Tutorial below - if you can!
The Plan of God
A Cardinal, a Pope and a Justice "from medieval times"
Keith O'Brien has reiterated the Catholic Church's continued
opposition to civil partnerships and suggested that there should be no
laws that "facilitate" same-sex relationships, which he claimed were
"harmful", arguing that “The empirical evidence is clear, same-sex
relationships are demonstrably harmful to the medical, emotional and
spiritual wellbeing of those involved, no compassionate society should
ever enact legislation to facilitate or promote such relationships, we
have failed those who struggle with same-sex attraction and wider
society by our actions.”
Four male members of the Scottish Catholic clergy allegedly claim that
Keith O'Brien had abused his position as a member of the church
hierarchy by making unwanted homosexual advances towards them in the
1980s.
Keith O'Brien criticized the concept of same-sex marriage saying it
would shame the United Kingdom and that promoting such things would
degenerate society further.
Pope Francis, aka Jorge Bergoglio: Same-sex is a destructive
pretension against the plan of God. We are not talking about a mere
bill, but rather a machination of the Father of Lies that seeks to
confuse and deceive the children of God." He has also insisted that
adoption by gay and lesbian people is a form of discrimination against
children. This position received a rebuke from Argentine president
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, who said the church's tone was
reminiscent of "medieval times and the Inquisition".
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg: 'Sex' is a dirty word, so let's use 'gender' instead!
Klevius: Let's not!
As previously and repeatedly pointed out by Klevius, the treacherous use
of 'gender' instead of 'sex' is not only confusing but deliberately so.
So when Jewish Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg proposed gender' as a
synonyme for 'sex' (meaning biological sex) she also helped to shut the
door for many a young girl's/woman's possibilities to climb outside the
gender cage.
The Universal Human Rights declaration clearly states that your
biological sex should not be referred to as an excuse for limiting your
rights. Is Justice Bader Ginsburg aware of this? Although the question
might seem provocative, it's not, precisely because the US Constitution
still lacks such full equality between the sexes. Against this
background US is extremely vulnerable to islamofascist sharia,
especially keeping in mind the strong emphasis on "the right to free
exercise of one's religion".
Islam (now represented by OIC and its Sharia declaration) is the
worst and most dangerous form of sex segregation - no matter in how
modern clothing it's presented!
Klevius Sex and Gender Tutorial
What is 'gender' anyway?
(text randomly extracted from some scientific writings by Klevius)
It might be argued that it is the developing girl, not the grown up
woman, who is the most receptive to new experience, but yet is also the
most vulnerable. Therefore we need to address the analysis of the
tyranny of gender before the point at where it's already too late. I
prefer to use the term ‘female’ instead of ‘woman’ so to include girls,
when appropriate in this discussion. I also prefer not to define women
in relation to men, i.e. in line with the word 'universal' in the Human
Rights Declaration. In short, I propose 'gender blindness' equally as,
for example, 'color blindness'. And keep in mind, this has nothing to do
with biological differences.
According to Connell (2003:184), it is an old and disreputable habit to
define women mainly on the basis of their relation to men. Moreover,
this approach may also constitute a possible cause of confusion when
compared to a definition of ‘gender’ which emphasizes social relations
on the basis of ‘reproductive differences’.
To really grasp the absurdity of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's and
others habit of confusing 'gender' with 'sex' one may consider that
“normal” girls/women live in the same gender trap tyranny as do
transsexuals.
The definition of ‘acquired gender’ is described in a guidance for/about transsexuals as:
Transsexual people have the deep conviction that the gender to which
they were assigned at birth on the basis of their physical anatomy
(referred to as their “birth gender”) is incorrect. That conviction will
often lead them to take steps to present themselves to the world in the
opposite gender. Often, transsexual people will undergo hormonal or
surgical treatment to bring their physical identity into line with their
preferred gender identity.
This evokes the extinction of the feminine or women as directly
dependent on the existence of the masculine or men. Whereas the feminine
cannot be defined without the masculine, the same applies to women who
cannot be defined - only described - without men.
Female footballers, for example - as opposed to feminine footballers,
both male and female - are, just like the target group of feminism, by
definition distinguished by sex. Although this classification is a
physical segregation – most often based on a delivery room assessment
made official and not at all taking into account physical size,
strength, skills etc. - other aspects of sex difference, now usually
called ‘gender’, seem to be layered on top of this dichotomy. This
review departs from the understanding that there are two main categories
that distinguish females, i.e. the physical sex belonging, for example,
that only biological women may participate in a certain competition,
and the cultural sex determination, for example that some sports or
sporters are less ‘feminine’ than others.
‘Gender’ is synonymous with sex segregation, given that the example of
participation on the ground of one’s biological sex is simply a rule for
a certain agreed activity and hence not sex segregation in the form of
stipulated or assumed separatism. Such sex segregation is still common
even in societies which have prescribed to notions of general human
freedom regardless of sex and in accordance with Human Rights. This is
because of a common consensus that sex segregation is ‘good’ although,
as it is seen here, its effects are bad in the long run.
In Durkheim’s (1984: 142) view ‘organized despotism’ is where the
individual and the collective consciousness are almost the same. Then
sui generis, a new life may be added on to that of the main body. As a
consequence, this freer and more independent state progresses and
consolidates itself (Durkheim 1984: 284).
However, consensus may also rest on an imbalance that is upheld and may
even strengthen precisely as an effect of the initial imbalance. In such
a case ‘organized despotism’ becomes the means for conservation. As a
consequence, the only alternative would be to ease restrictions, which
is something fundamentally different from proposing how people should
live their lives. ‘Organized despotism’ in this meaning may apply to
gender and to sex segregation as well.
According to Connell (2003) whose confused view may be closer to that of
Justice Ginsburg, gender is neither biology, nor a fixed dichotomy, but
it has a special relation to the human body mirrored in a ‘general
perception’. Cultural patterns do not only mirror bodily differences.
Gender is ‘a structure’ of social relations/practices concentrated to
‘the reproductive arena’, and a series of due practices in social
processes. That is, gender describes how society relates to the human
body, and has due consequences for our private life and for the future
of wo/mankind (Connell 2003:21-22). However, the main problem here
involves how to talk without gender.
Sex should properly refer to the biological aspects of male and female
existence. Sex differences should therefore only be used to refer to
physiology, anatomy, genetics, hormones and so forth. Gender should
properly be used to refer to all the non‑biological aspects of
differences between males and females ‑ clothes, interests, attitudes,
behaviors and aptitudes, for example ‑ which separate 'masculine' from
'feminine' life styles (Delamont 1980: 5 in Hargreaves 1994:146).
It seems that 'masculine' and 'feminine’ in this definition of gender is
confusingly close to the ‘mystique about their being predetermined by
biology’ when compared to the ‘reproductive arena’ and ‘reproductive
differences’ in Connell’s definition of gender. However, although
gender, according to Connell (2003: 96), may also be ‘removed’ the
crucial issue is whether those who are segregated really want to de-sex
segregate? As long as the benefits of a breakout are not clearly
assessable, the possible negative effects may undermine such
efforts.Hesitating to run out through an opened door to the unknown
doesn't necessarily mean that you don't want to. Nor does it mean that
you have to.
According to Connell (2003:20) the very key to the understanding of
gender is not to focus on differences, but, instead, to focus on
relations. In fact, this distinction is crucial here because relations,
contrary to differences, are mutually dependent. Whatever difference
existing between the sexes is meaningless unless it is connected via a
relation. On the one hand, big male muscles can hardly be of relational
use other than in cases of domestic violence, and on the other hand,
wage gaps cannot be identified without a comparative relation to the
other sex.
Biological determinism is influential in the general discourse of sports
academia (Hargreaves 1994:8). However, what remains to analyze is
whether ‘gender’ is really a successful concept for dealing with
biological determinism?
‘To explain the cultural at the level of the biological encourages the
exaggeration and approval of analyses based on distinctions between men
and women, and masks the complex relationship between the biological and
the cultural’ (Hargreaves 1994:8).
With another example: to explain the cultural (driver) at the level of
the technical (type of car) encourages the exaggeration and approval of
analyses based on distinctions between cars, and masks the complex
relationship between the car and the driver. However, also the contrary
seems to hold true;. that the cultural (driver/gender) gets tied to the
technical/biological. The ‘complex relationship’ between the car and the
driver is easily avoided by using similar1 cars, hence making the
driver more visible. In a sex/gender setting the ‘complex relationship’
between sex and gender is easily avoided by distinguishing between sex
and culture2, hence making culture more visible. The term ‘culture’,
unlike the term ‘gender’ clearly tries to avoid the ‘complex
relationship’ between biology and gender. The ‘complex relationship’
makes it, in fact, impossible to distinguish between them. On top of
this comes the ‘gender relation’ confusion, which determines people to
have ‘gender relations’, i.e. to be opposite or separate.
This kind of gender view is popular, perhaps because it may serve as a
convenient way out from directly confronting the biology/culture
distinction, and seems to be the prevalent trend, to the extent that
‘gender’ has conceptually replaced ‘sex’, leading to the consequence
that the latter has become more or less self-evident and thus almost
beyond scrutiny. In other words, by using ‘gender’ as a sign for ‘the
complex relationship between the biological and the cultural’,
biological determinism becomes more difficult to access analytically.
The distinction between sex and gender implied in these quotations,
however, does not seem to resolve the issue, precisely because it fails
to offer a tool for discriminating biological aspects of differences
from non-biological ones, i.e. those that are cultural. This is also
reflected in everyday life. ‘Folk’ categories of sex and gender often
appear to be used as if they were the same thing. Although 'masculine'
and 'feminine' are social realities, there is a mystique about their
being predetermined by biology. Furthermore the very relational meaning
of ‘gender’ seems to constitute a too obvious hiding place for a brand
of essentialism based on sex. Apart from being ‘structure’, as noted
above, gender is, according to Connell (2003:20), all about relations.
However, if there are none - or if the relations are excluding - the
concept of sex segregation may be even more useful.
In Connell’s analysis, gender may be removed (Connell 2003:96). In this
respect and as a consequence, gender equals sex segregation. In fact it
seems that the 'masculine' and 'feminine’, in the definition of gender
above, are confusingly close to the ‘mystique about their being
predetermined by biology’ when compared to the ‘reproductive arena’ and
‘reproductive differences’ in Connell’s (2003:21) definition of gender.
The elusiveness of gender seems to reveal a point of focus rather than a
thorough-going conceptualization. So, for example, in traditional
Engels/Marx thinking the family’s mediating formation between class and
state excludes the politics of gender (Haraway 1991: 131).
What's a Woman?
In What is a Woman? Moi (1999) attacks the concept of gender while still
emphasizing the importance of the concept of the feminine and a strong
self-conscious (female) subject that combines the personal and the
theoretical within it. Moi (1999: 76), hence, seems to propose a loose
sex/gender axis resting on a rigid womanhood based on women’s context
bound, lived experience outside the realm of men’s experience.
Although I share Moi’s suggestion for abandoning the category of gender,
her analysis seems to contribute to a certain confusion and to an
almost incalculable theoretical abstraction in the sex/gender
distinction because it keeps maintaining sex segregation without
offering a convincing defense for it. Although gender, for example, is
seen as a nature-culture distinction, something that essentializes
non-essential differences between women and men, the same may be said
about Moi’s approach if we understand her ‘woman’ as, mainly, the
mainstream biological one usually classified (prematurely) in the
delivery room. If the sexes live in separate spheres, as Moi’s analysis
seems to imply, the lived, contextual experience of women appears as
less suitable for pioneering on men’s territory.
This raises the question about whether the opening up of new frontiers
for females may demand the lessening or even the absence of femininity
(and masculinity). In fact, it is believed here that the ‘liminal state’
where social progression might best occur, is precisely that. Gender as
an educated ‘facticity’ then, from this point of view, will inevitably
enter into a state of world view that adds itself onto the ‘lived body’
as a constraint.
It is assumed here that we commonly conflate constructs of sex, gender,
and sexuality. When sex is defined as the ‘biological’ aspects of male
and female, then this conceptualization is here understood as purely
descriptive. When gender is said to include social practices organized
in relation to biological sex (Connell 1987), and when gender refers to
context/time-specific and changeable socially constructed relationships
of social attributes and opportunities learned through socialization between women and men, this is also here understood as
descriptive. However, when description of gender transforms into active
construction of gender, e.g. through secrets about its analytical gain,
it subsequently transforms into a compulsory necessity. Gendering hence
may blindfold gender-blind opportunities.
In conclusion, if gender is here understood as a social construct, then
it is not coupled to sex but to context, and dependent on time. Also it
is here understood that every person may possess not only one but a
variety of genders. Even if we consider gender to be locked together
with the life history of a single individual the above conceptualization
makes a single, personal gender impossible, longitudinally as well as
contemporaneously. Whereas gender is constructive and deterministic, sex
is descriptive and non-deterministic. In this sense, gender as an
analytical tool leaves little room for the emancipating girl - the Tomboy.
The Tomboy - a threat to "femininity"
Noncompliance with what is assumed ‘feminine’ threatens established or
presumed sex segregation. What is perceived as ‘masculinity’ or
‘maleness’ in women, as a consequence, may only in second place, target
homosexuality. In accordance with this line of thought, the Tomboy
embodies both the threat and the possibilities for gendered respectively
gender-blind opportunity structures.
The Tomboy is the loophole out of gender relations. Desires revealed
through sport may have been with females under the guise of a different
identity, such as that of the Tomboy (Kotarba & Held 2007: 163).
Girls throw balls ‘like girls’ and do not tackle like boys because of a
female perception of their bodies as objects of action (Young 2000:150
cited in Kotarba & Held 2007: 155).
However, when women lacking experience of how to act in an effective
manner in sport are taught about how to do, they have no problem
performing, quite contrary to explaining shortcomings as due to innate
causes (Kotarba & Held 2007: 157). This is also opposite to the
experiences of male-to-female transsexuals who through thorough exercise
learn how to feminize their movements (Schrock & Boyd 2006:53-55).
Although, according to Hargreaves (1994), most separatist sports
philosophies have been a reaction to dominant ideas about the biological
and psychological predispositions of men and women, supposedly
rendering men 'naturally suited to sports, and women, by comparison,
essentially less suited (Hargreaves 1994:29-30), the opposite may also
hold true. Separatism per definition needs to separate and this
separation is often based on biological differences, be it skin colour,
sex or something else.
From this perspective, the Tomboy would constitute a theoretical anomaly
in a feminine separatist setting. Although her physical body would
possibly qualify as feminine, what makes her a Tomboy would not.
The observation that in mixed playgrounds, and in other areas of the
school environment, boys monopolize the physical space (Hargreaves
1994:151) may lack the additional notion that certain boys dominate and
certain boys do not. Sports feminists have 'politicized' these kinds of
experience by drawing connections between ideas and practice (Hargreaves
1994:3) but because of a separatist approach may exclude similar
experience among parts of the boys. Moreover, a separatist approach is
never waterproof and may hence leak Tomboy girls without a notion.
