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Againstism

A quick roundup from the war to the ladies room. 

Dan Senor at WSJ on what the party of surrender doesn’t want to talk about: Iraq war opponents who don’t want to leave, and what happens if we do.  

Eugene Robinson at WaPo boils down the war debate on the left as underscored by Sunday’s Dem debate: I’m more against it than you are. Robinson comes out for againstism.

Podhoretz on Hillary’s difficulties as she tries, Clintonianly, to be for and against something at the same time.

That’s the war. Somewhat off-topic, Thomas Sowell at RCP on againstism in other arenas: “liberation” without thought to consequences. Sowell only goes partway there and fails to fully examine the question he raises. What happens when you throw out 100,000-plus years of human norms, experience and culture.* Widespread absentee parenting and child-warehousing, gay marriage and adoption, legal acceptance of gender identities that defy biology, abortion on demand.  Some studies suggest that extensive daycare may have negative effects on kids.  You can get a tax writeoff on daycare costs. When a parent chooses to stay home to raise the kid, all you get is a lower tax bracket. I don’t know if anyone is looking at the other issues, though re legal acceptance of non-biologically supported gender, I’d suggest we’re headed into a legal morass.  In New York, transvestites may use the public restroom of their choice, regardless of status of plumbing. So who’s to decide when a man thinks he’s a woman and when a man just wants you to think he thinks he’s a woman, and should we care? Seems like it may infringe on the privacy and security of some biological women. There is also an effort in New York to allow people whose gender identity does not match their biology to change their birth certificates.  The one I’m looking forward to, once don’t-ask-don’t-tell is dispensed with in the military, is when GI Joe announces that he is GI Jane and expects to be treated as such.

The latter issues are being decided mainly by judges strictly as a rights issue with little regard for broader consensus or consequences.  

*An anthropology prof I had in college said everything’s normal and has been formalized by a society somewhere, which is more or less true. Sparta warehoused the boys at age 7.  He cited a society, in New Guinea or some place like that, that required boys to service the warriors, so no one would lose any semen/strength to women prior to becoming a marriageable elder at 30, when the guys  marry the teenaged girls. There are a number of societies that accommdate or incorporate transvestism in different ways.  They tend to be exceptions.   

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  Posted by Jules Crittenden at 9:52 am on Tuesday, June 5, 2007

3 Responses to “Againstism”

1. Robert Says:
   June 5th, 2007 at 10:35 am

   “Sparta took warehoused the boys at age 7.”

   ?

2. The Thunder Run Says:
   June 5th, 2007 at 11:01 am

   Web Reconnaissance for 06/05/2007

   A short recon of what’s out there that might draw your attention.

3. Jules Crittenden Says:
   June 5th, 2007 at 11:37 am

   Editing glitch, thanks Robert.

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