(April 15, 2016 at 12:07 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: Mathilda, I think what it comes down to is that some people are incapable of mentally separating anatomical genitalia from gender. Penis = male, and vagina = female. It's a type of binary thinking (Drich has caught himself in that particular trap before, though he'll never be aware of it) that takes careful consideration and empathy to break out of. It's a sad and unfortunate truth...
Completely agree. Binary religious thinking is a hallmark of a theist.
Thinking in degrees is a mental function. And like all mental functions, whether it's the ability to empathise, to understand someone else's point of view, or to use words or numbers, or to mentally visualise etc, there will be some people that are unable to do it.