RE: Bill Nye Saves the World
April 27, 2017 at 9:39 am
(This post was last modified: April 27, 2017 at 9:48 am by Regina.)
(April 27, 2017 at 9:30 am)Isis Wrote:(April 26, 2017 at 8:10 pm)Regina Wrote: Seems he's bought the transtrenders' narrative wholesale tbh. And why is this woman talking about being a "power bottom" or a "top" when those are gay male terms? I mean I guess theoretically a woman could be either if she had a dildo to hand, but still...
Oh, absolutely.
I think a lot of famous people have bought it, and you know political correctness has gone way too far when that cringey nonsense is featured on a science show. But hey, it's his show. I just won't bother watching it after that.
You're right, I just expect better from such a well respected scientist. Even if he was going to say that he'd been doing neurological studies on brains of non-binary people and found evidence to support it, I'd respect this a lot more. From what it looks like he didn't though, he just swallowed a few Tumblr and Buzzfeed blogs and had his performers regurgitate it on stage.
This trivialisation of trans and gay identities down to clothing is toxic enough without having respected scientists validating it on no apparent evidence.
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