/lit/ - Literature

A podcast I listened to had Richard Dawkins on. They ended up talking about gender and the erosion of truth since it's fucking 2023 and no one can even define what a man or woman is anymore. He compared transgenderism to transubstantiation in Catholicism- that the substance doesn't change but its essence changes. Basically he argued that that declaring that some wine is now the blood of Christ is the same thing as a man declaring himself a woman. I kind of agree with the comparison and mentioned it to my liberal philsophy grad student roommate. He didn't like it because he thought the distinction between sex and gender were clear, that you don't change chromosomally but you "work towards passing as a female" I wasn't looking to argue so I didn't really push back, I just wanted to hear his take on it, though the expression "You can put lipstick on a pig" came to my mind as he said it. I told him I think gender is nonsensical and unfalsifiable and that's why no one can agree on it. He said that the point of gender is that it's unfalsifiable. This makes me think it's a useless concept, though I don't really know how to articulate as to why.

I don't "feel" male, I just am one. I don't "feel" masculine by my actions and I don't really care if my clothes are blue or pink- I have multiple pink shirts. I wish I was taller or I wish certain things about my body were different, but I don't really feel like "oh man I gotta go get leg lengthening surgery to make my body match my ideal image." I just accept the hand I was dealt in life and make the most of it, I don't know why others can't cope with it, or why it is that those that can't cope never have active fathers in their lives.

>met a /lit/ girl
>kinda cute, was in a uni book club with me for Dune
>started ranting about she hates Hesse because she says Siddhartha is plagiarism and the protagonist of Steppenwolf is a "20th century incel"

I haven't read any Hesse. What should I think of her?

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Honestly now that we're this deep into the hole, fuck it. You might as well conquer your enemies and destroy their legacy by pumping the men and boys with estrogen/whatever else you need for chemical castration, raising the boys as "failed men" meant to be taken as concubines that are brainwashed into sexual service along with the women.