2d ago

Intention of holding eggs

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I find the phrase “Born with the intention” in itself worthy of head-scratching.
- I think its meant sort of as physical intention aka the body doesn't have the ability to "hold eggs" (jfc) yet but will try to develop the capability in the future. A sneaky way to try and include infertile cis women but it still excludes many of them as there are various reasons for infertility. Interestingly the phrasing also excludes all women post menopause but that's to be expected given the amount of representation those usually get (the amount being zero).
  
  Women are born with their eggs, but that’s not true for women who are born without ovaries, which has got to be possible, so this is a dumb definition anyway
  
  Also post-hysterectomy if it includes the ovaries. Sorry bitch, still a woman.
  Personally my definition of a woman is anyone subject to misogyny.
  I suppose it's wrong, because attacks on transmen are also rooted in misogyny, but that's the misogynists' fault.
  For the religious: "Sometimes God puts a soul into a body that doesn't match. The soul is sacred, and until it can be released from the body permanently, we owe it to those souls to recognize and help them. God doesn't make mistakes, it's us He's testing."
  
  Technically, it doesn't even need to include the ovaries if the bigots are defining the womb as the 'holding eggs' bit.
  Jesus, we need better mandatory biology classes. (That's aimed at the people defining women as egg holders, not you.)
  
  I don't agree with it, but the reason this religious argument (and most challenges of religion) falls flat, is because, to the true believer, their God is infallible, and so the idea of God making a mistake like that is on direct conflict with their core beliefs.
  
  Christians famously don't think children can get cancer or the plague, because "God doesn't make mistakes". Blind children and children in wheelchairs? A hoax by the devil, clearly.
  
  As I said, it's not a mistake, it to test us, to be sure we're following His edicts to love one another and judge not.
  Of course to the false "believer," hating and judging has become second nature and their "Christian" lives are the deepest blasphemy.
  But to a decent person who's already beginning to question the false doctrine in which they've been raised, it opens a chink in the wall.
  
  Why does God need to test us? Doesn't he already know whether or not we'd pass?
  
  I don't disagree with you myself, but remember the apple? According to Godologists that was just the first of thousands of tests, including your impure thoughts last week. It's kinda his thing. So I see no problem using it to get through to them.
  
  Wasn't even an apple. It was literally "the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil."
  So, basically, before eating that fruit, Eve could not have possibly known right from wrong. So how is it her fault?
  Why would god make that tree in the first place? Why would he make that tree, and then insert it into his perfect paradise? Why would he make the tree, insert it into his perfect paradise, but then forbid the humans from eating the fruit, and thus gaining the understanding of good and evil? Why wouldn't he want humans to have that knowledge? Why would he allow the serpent (who never told Eve to eat the fruit, btw, he just said it was something that was possible for her to do) to exist there in the first place?
  And lastly, if he's all-knowing, why the fuck would he be surprised by any of this?
  
  While you're at it, why should He have any problem with trans people in the first place? Who are we to say He doesn't intend the full variety of sexes and genders, just as He seems to enjoy making an infinite variety of species, including about a million species of beetles?
  He's not surprised. Just disappointed, in the small-mindedness of people. Or maybe that's just me who's disappointed. He's probably busy playing with His friends on Planet Beetle.
  
  He’s not surprised. Just disappointed, in the small-mindedness of people. Or maybe that’s just me who’s disappointed. He’s probably busy playing with His friends on Planet Beetle.
  You're gonna have to give me a good reason to believe it exists in the first place before I'd ever consider it being "busy," even as a joke.
  
  Because "god works in mysterious ways."
  That's the most you'll ever get.
  
  You're right, and that whole argument is sidestepping the fact what they really want is a separation between men and women so that they can attempt to force a safe space for women that appeals to their sensibilities of women being born weaker than men with lower bone density and testosterone while not allowing glaring loopholes. Which is how they really view women as an infantile subset of our species that needs protection from a minority of opportunists that would take advantage of them.
- Born with the intention to chew bubblegum & Rock n' Roll.
  
  I was born with the intention to be wild, but I got busy and haven't had the time.
  
  AND I'M ALL OUTTA BUBBLEGUM

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