"Woman has ovaries and a uterus; such are the particular conditions that lock her in her subjectivity; some even say she thinks with her hormones. Man vainly forgets that his anatomy also contains hormones and testicles." 1/2

"He grasps his body as a direct and normal link with the world that he believes he apprehends in all objectivity, whereas he considers woman's body an obstacle, a prison, burdened by everything that particularizes it."

Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1949

Pondering on Simone De Beauvoir 2

Reading Second Sex by Beauvoir now make sense.. considering how women and girls are not *born* a girl, but created, socialized and became what society deemed as "girl/women".. with the gender, social expectation of being women.. extension of a man, secondary to men. :\

She probably didn't mean this to deny biological realities of being female, but what female are made to become and what they're made to be, expected to be by the society then.. thus her book, the second sex.

"a woman learns her role from man and others in society. Woman is not born passive, secondary, and nonessential, but all the forces in the external world have conspired to make her so."

There are subjectivity to this, layers underneath it that speaks to gender-variant people in society, which in itself is valid, but I don't think that was the primary message of her famous phrase.

“ humanity is male and man defines woman not in herself but as relative to him;”  and consequently women are shunned into the role of the other, where as men are consequently named as both the positive and neutral terms for humans." 1/3

" De Beauvoir states that although there are biological differences between the sexes, women only become women because of the circumstances of their society, leading her to the conclusion that the facts of biology take on the values of social norms." 2/3

"Therefore, it is not nature that defines women, rather she defines herself by dealing with nature on her own account in emotional life." 3/3

Postmodern third wave feminist think gender and sex differently to second wave, marxist feminist.. there are, obviously, overlaps.. as usual. But the distinction and schism, differences between the two factions are clear. Gender to the latter, are oppression, not to be tolerated.

Pondering on Simone De Beauvoir 1

I wonder if it's human nature to want to worship or revere something.. God, powerful men and women, or nonbinary/ambiguous beings that are transcendental to them. Hmm. Doesn't have to be "god" per se.

Material means objectively grounded in physical realities and truth.

(adjective) denoting or consisting of physical objects rather than the mind or spirit.

the material world, perceptible to the senses, has objective reality independent of mind or spirit. (Marx, Engel)

They did not deny the reality of mental or spiritual processes but affirmed that ideas could arise, therefore, only as products and reflections of material conditions.

Materialism FIRST and FOREMOST before metaphysical stuff like mental (gender for this issue), spiritual etc.

This doesn't mean people who are transsexual or nonbinary aren't valid, no. This just mean that we cannot "liberate" humanity by abolishing gender or sex, just to be more "inclusive".

while causes more harm to the one that are already discriminated on the basis of their sex, especially outside of western socio-political ecosystem.

Transsexual (or trans medicalist) are still within the binary of sex, they work/transition from sex they're born with

to the sex they cognitively relate to (which is a medical condition ea gender dysphoria, which makes this a material condition able to be traced with medical assessments).

Transsexual, third gender, and natives' gender system exist but they cannot be equate to "Queer" concept of the west queer postmodern interpretation of it.

There has to be a way to respect women's rights, spaces, sex and sexuality as immutable, and giving basic human rights to everyone, even nonbinary, queer.

Materialism & Feminism

this is the third time I am seeing a communist (?) or marxist (?) and materialist (????) saying they want to abolish sex as a category. And they call themselves feminist on top of that.

Second wave feminist issues are still not settled, sweatie, and you want to abolish sex? -_-

like what that Taylor Swift stan said, there are so many social and medical science that requires to identify and objectively mark a person with the sex they are or closest to genetically.. and women are already discriminated heavily in psychiatric and medical field as subject.

Not to mention there are STILL countries that would hurt and kill those who are born with vagina, who are girls/women, who cannot identify OUT of their sex. Even if you identify as gender x or y, you are still will be oppressed by the objective material reality of your sex.

First world "feminist" and "communist" don't think about all of this apparently.

My confusion with metaphysicalist Marxist

About RUU355, in my observation, the only political parties that don't talk nor interested in the private bill pushed forward by Hadi Awang would be PSM, PRM, independent bodies and DAP.

UMNO already made it clear before in past years they want to push for this, under Zahid Hamidi in opposition of PH 2018 government

PH malay muslim divisions always mocked PAS about their inability to push for RUU355, but in the end, they still push for and in line with whatever PAS wants..

Ea inability to end child marriages, inability to say no to RUU355, making public concepts Stricker.

Whether you vote for PAS or not, the muslim malay coalitions wants to appease the malay muslim Conservatives demands and values.

As I said, this is inevitable.

My lawyer friends said we shouldn't worry since this is a private bill, and private bill aren't usually tolerated or entertained.

However, this particular private bill is very "hot", shall I say.

Why do the unity government wants to push/pursue this bill anyway.. It was pushed by Hadi. Now you want to push for it.

Macam takde point undi siapa pon kat Malaysia ni lollll

Added context to what is in the bill:

three years’ imprisonment, a RM5,000 fine, and six strokes of the whip – be increased significantly to 30 years in prison, RM100,000 fine, and 100 lashes.

Remember, the syariah court in Malaysia already is very strict.

RUU355 and Political Parties

So moving on to the next topic.. I have someone I care about sharing to me that he suffers from an acute sense of non existent and believe in that. At first when I heard that, I thought of Cotard Syndrome. The intense depression that annihilate one's sense of existence.

He disagree.. But it is still U/O. His psychiatrist and C. Psychologist said he is diagnosed with Autism Level 1. He doesn't exhibit on going suicidal ideations nor inclination to do so. So the bpd and depression emptiness doesn't cut it either.

It is interesting.. And I want to understand more.

Do other autism spectrum folks feel this way too? I know my fellow adhd and bpd something does exhibit chronic emptiness and crippling depression to the point the self shatters. But not permanently.

I thought it was the effect of psychological nihilism, or some form of nihilism in philosophical term he adopted that he might be trapped in.. But he isn't nihilistic either.. I'm more explicitly nihilistic than he is lmao.

First I heard about this in the book "Man who mistook his wife as Hat Hänger" or sumn along the line.

They investigated this condition.. The brain structure of the one suffering from Cotard Syndrome is less active, even more so than depressed individuals. 

A nihilistic enigma

The writings are on the wall, literally. Being homosexual is offensive, the word homosexual is offensive, the word queer is now used to call all lgbtiq folk, and anyone disagree is bigot. Queer is a slur, for the longest time, especially in the anglo-saxon context.

Which the damn word originated from. The malay and other ethnics that are not of the English or English educated background might not feel nothing to it, or if they're so drunk on the queer theory.. But the word itself is a pejorative meant to hurt.

Now you want us all to be called queer and no way of saying no? Man this feels like a whiplash from the past with how I dealt with Muslim telling me I can't call myself liberal progressive muslim, there's only one Islam,.. Their Islam. LoL.

The conundrum with the word Queer: Malaysia vs Anglo-Saxon context

You can't say you're intersectional feminist but at the same time says thing kill all terf, punch terf, r*pe terf etc. Or enables it. 

Terf are mostly women. Because most of the one being called TERF.. Are women. Lesbians especially.

Beside, terf isn't the term they call themselves because they don't exclude trans. They call themselves Gender Critical.. Not trans exclusionary.. Two different thing.

"it's descriptive of what they're doing towards trans which is transphobic".. Yeah, let me give you an example of a religious cult equivalence.. What do you call someone that refuse to believe in Quran, Muhammad and Allah? Kaffir.

Do they themselves call themselves kaffir? No. Do they not believe in Islam? Yes. Do they respect and can live with Muslim? Depends, most time yes.

Now applies this to gender critical feminist and homosexuals and queer ideologist. The parallel are there, is it not?

"we call nazi a nazi and fascist a fascist" yes. However, they themselves call their self Nazi and Fascist.. It's literally their brand, terf don't call themselves terf, it's a pejorative label towards a feminist or anyone that rejects gender/queer ideology.

I don't call myself terf, because I don't exclude trans people in my advocacy. I am CRITICAL of gender and queer theory.. I am not against trans people. That's two different thing.

Being critical is not being hateful. Just like I am critical of Islam, doesn't mean I hate muslim.

On Queer, and Queer Theory 2

This whole queer trans thing being culty and we need to act like a superorganism to protect literal children exploiter are just stupid.

It reminds me of the time we muslim collective have to protect/apologetic to ISIS and the like, just because they have "Islam" on it.

Not everything claiming they're "trans" are actually trans. Yes, I believe in a medical gatekeeping, so sue me. And just because they claim they're "Trans"/"Queer" whatever.. doesn't make them immune from being criticized or accountable for their actions.

I reject equating Queer/Non-Dysphoric "folx" as transsexual that have legit medical conditions.. and I also reject not criticizing things as they are, and presented as what they say they are. Nothing is above criticism, especially not ideologies.

Just because something has a label, for example, Islam or associated with the faith.. doesn't make it above criticism, or being questioned.. ea Air Anugerah bullshit. Now use the same fucking logic, with this stupid exploitations of both children and marginalized communities.