The AgapePress begins with apples:
Students looking to enter the Harvard Business School MBA program are asked to fill out an online profile that offers three choices of gender: female, male, or transgender.
And then talks to Bob Knight about oranges:
“I’m not surprised it’s coming out of Harvard,” he says, “because they’ve flirted with the idea that, in terms of sexuality, anything goes, and they’ve given intellectual respectability to it.” Knight continues, sharing that he feels it is “harmful” that Harvard, one of the most prestigious colleges in America, now thinks there are three sexes instead of two. “That kind of thing trickles down to other institutions,” he laments.
Because of the paraphrasing, it’s not clear if Knight or the Agape is ignorant of the differentiation between sex and gender. There’s a reason why they exist as two different words. I’m not sure if there’s any hope of the fundies “curing” the transgendered when they lack even this level of rudimentary knowledge.
Wouldn’t be the first time either one is ignorant and/or just plain lying their face off.
Of course, hermaphrodites simply don’t exist in their world….
The weirdest part is that even when he’s right, he’s wrong:
“Transgenders are individuals who have changed their sex through surgery, or at least have tried to. The CFI director contends that people among that group are not likely to mark “transgender” on their Harvard profile, but rather the new sex they have adopted. Like the homosexual movement, the transgender movement is “picking up speed,” says Knight.”
He’s right that the vast majority of transitioned or mostly transitioned transsexuals would likely mark their new sex instead of “transgender.” So if this is a category he thinks no one is going to actually use, why’s he so upset about it?
Skemono- technically, there is no such thing as a human “hermaphrodite,” which means someone with both sets of sex organs. The intersexed are born with genetalia physically somewhere in between make and female, but that vast majority of them also identify themselves as one sex or the other. For most, the issue isn’t so much their gender as the fact that they were surgically mutilated without their knowledge or consent and then lied to about it.
What’s any of that got to do with talent? It takes brains and character to get into the college of one’s choice and to graduate and enter the professional world of one’s choice.
One is not a pair of boobs or testicles, and that’s hardly the criteria for school, anywhere.
It’s obviously hard for people like Knight to recognize a HUMAN being unless he can recognize what their sex organs are.
And who died and made him genital monitor at the doors of universities?
Damn, I wish people like him would get the hell over it and concentrate on what really matters.
Ha Ha, Regan, “Genital Monitor.” I like that!
“Bob Knight, Concerned Woman for America and Genital Monitor” has a certain fitting panache!
I’ll second that Sharon…
Regan said “who died and made him genital monitor at the doors of universities?”
Hilarious! Regan that’s one of the best one-liners I’ve heard in years!
I’m going to point out something about Robert Knight and his organizational affiliations that’s often pointed out when he speaks about gender issues.Robert Knight is the director of the Culture and Family Institute, which is a subsidiary part of the Concerned Women For America. Robert Knight is therefore a Concerned Woman spokesperson …There’s lots of irony in a man speaking for a women’s organization about gender and transgender issues.
maybe applications should remove the question regarding what sex you are…maybe that would limit all the fuss…with all these educated people around worrying about who says what, why have we not solved world hunger and the Aids epidemic.
GENDER IS EITHER MALE OR FEMALE AT BIRTH [DNA]
TRANSGENDER IS TERM MADE UP FOR THE CONFUSED.
[Moderator Note: recent posts by commenter calling themselves mary, SAM, joe and anonymous were all posted by the same person in an attempt at deception]
So, SAM, are u saying you consider yourself transgender, since your SHOUTING is fairly confused?
By the way, drive-by trolling is considered to be rude.
I don’t know why they’re so upset. With their level of ignorance, it’s not like they’d get into Harvard even if they wanted to go there.
Good Lord. Just imagine what they’d think of Brown.