GreatRhetoric

Context: OnRhetoric

Some rhetoric that really works.

Nice bit of rhetoric I've heard recently :

The Genesis mission - to capture a piece of the Sun and return it to the Earth - is truly in the Nasa spirit: a bold, inspiring mission that makes a fundamental contribution to scientific knowledge

"to capture a piece of the Sun and return it to the Earth" ... Beautiful.

(http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3614806.stm))

Transcluded from TransExclusionaryRadicalFeminist

A good bit of rhetoric from CatharineMacKinnon captures what seems to be at stake in the current round of "terfdom"

Those winging to the Right are thrilled by this putatively feminist reduction of women to female body parts, preferably chromosomes and reproductive apparatus, qualities chosen so that whatever is considered definitive of sex is not only physical but cannot be physically changed into.

Here https://signsjournal.org/exploring-transgender-law-and-politics/

That sounds right to me. An essentialist attempt to define exactly what a woman is with criteria deliberately chosen such that trans-women can't fit it.