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This is brilliant. I have argued continually in my own writing that human nature is biologically based, only to be told I can’t say that because there is “no evidence “ for such an assertion. When I was in graduate school (in the 2010s), alongside much younger, deeply indoctrinated people, I was told that it was discrimination to mention any biological arguments. I had to change the topic of my major research paper several times because my advisor refused to consider any criticisms of Derrida or Foucault.

So here we are, like you say, immersed in a salad of vague terms that deny basic biology and allow bullies to call themselves whatever they want and to demand sexual compliance from people who are just trying to follow the signals that nature gave them about which bodies to be attracted to.

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