The Post-Partisan Emporium

  Anthropology Brings Back Bestiaries For gender activists, clownfish and orangutans operate as just-so stories guaranteeing proper moral orientation rather than empirical challenges to evidence-based accounts. KATHLEEN LOWREY In September, several colleagues and I were pre-emptively  booted  from the 2023 joint meetings of the American Anthropological Association and Canadian Anthropology Society in Toronto. Our panel, titled “Let’s Talk about Sex, Baby: Why biological sex remains a necessary analytic category in anthropology,” was scheduled for Sunday, November 20. I have already  detailed  this regrettable situation elsewhere, so I won't repeat it here. Instead, I want to focus on a specific point about why our panel was said to fly in the face of the “ settled science ” in anthropology: the contention that evidence from orangutans demonstrates that the great apes, humans included, are not sexually dimorphic species. In a joint  letter , three anthropologists—Kathryn Clancy from

  The beginning of the backlash against gender ideology CARLOS RAMALHETE The water first recedes, then comes back a lot stronger. So does the societal recognition of human nature It’s very hard to know when to stop. And right now we are witnessing in real time the consequences of pushing an act too far. I’m talking about the literally-revolutionary ideology that tries to pretend the essential differences between males and females are just accidents of upbringing. As with many errors of the last half-millennium, it is a function of  Ockham’s error . Trying to keep things simple — usually a good idea — he denied the objective existence of those things that are shared by many related individual beings. For him, the fact that there are horses would not imply that there would be a  horseness  independent of each horse, something beyond and behind each individual horse, something that would exist even if there were no more horses. That essential horseness of each horse, in his view, would be