In an attempt to combat the deluge of idealism, moralism and religious thinking that has overtaken the website leftypol.org, I am here to remind you that such questions as "ethics", "metaphysics", "identity politics" and "women" have already been solved. One need only apply the one correct philosophy of Karl Marx.
>Murder is morally wrong. This is because, for murder to be morally right, it would need to be morally something, but morals don't exist, so murder cannot be morally right. This means murder must be morally wrong.
>Gender is determined by what you have between your legs, since that's the only material thing. This means post-op trans women are women, but pre-op trans women, that is to say pre-op trans men (women), are men, and pre-op trans men, that is to say pre-op trans women (men), are women.
>Women go through menopause at around the age of 45 and begin experiencing brain fog. Per the immortal science of materialism, this means women were made by god to be smart – contrary to what some believe – but only until middle age, after which they're meant to be retarded.
>Men, however, are clearly not made to be smart at any point, since they don't go through menopause.
>Materialism is about Material, and the five kinds of Material are Summon Material, Magic Material, Command Material, Support Material and Independent Material. Material can be leveled up by winning battles.
>For the most part, the past does not exist, because it cannot be observed. You can mostly only ever observe stuff that happened like a microsecond ago. Prove me wrong, go observe "Ancient Egypt" right now.
>As a corollary to the above, Marx never existed, your great-great-great-great-grandfather never existed, and Parmenides was right, but since he never existed, he was wrong.
>The major exception to the above is photographs and films, which allow us to observe the past. This means the past didn't exist in the past, when photography didn't exist, but it does in the present, sometimes.
Remember, by applying the immortal science, one can never go astray.
Thank you for your service, comr8
>>834085I suggest you reread the opening post; all of these takes are materialist, as stated plainly multiple times, and therefore correct.
Gender is not determined by what’s between your legs because there are multiple other sexual and social changes which define “gender” that occur over the course of hrt.
(Ie breast growth, penis shrinkage, body fat distributions and changes to the skin. In the case of FTMs it’s clitorial growth, hair loss and voice deepening. These are all material)
I would agree with you that someone who’s not transitioning cannot become the opposite gender by just saying they are, as gender is not material. But I feel like this post was made not fully understanding on what hormone replacement therapy actually does.
>>834089I just realized that this post was not serious. I’m stupid, ignore me
>Some pseudomarxists claim sex forms the material base of gender, but this is a laughable understanding of historical materialism which centers biology before relations of production. Biology influences our reality, but our social systems find their basis in our material conditions.
But sex is a thing and, if it isn’t the basis of gender, what is it? Well, this formulation isn’t wrong, per se, it’s merely backwards. Gender forms the basis of sex. We are not born with sex already within us. We have penises, vaginas, breasts, beards, chromosomes, etc, but these things are not sex on their own. They are features of our biology, but we group them into sexes. When we call penises boy parts we are creating and imposing gender upon the body.
What this means is that sex is the gendering of our biological features. We assign gender to our biology and claim them to be innate. This is used to present the gender class system as a natural thing that just exists rather than a social system that gets imposed upon us. By gendering our bodies, we act as if gender just is rather than it being something that we’ve created. As such, sex serves to reinforce and defend gender.