[lbo-talk] Why gender changers are solopsits

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun Apr 10 09:39:24 PDT 2016


Hillary probably wouldn't approve.


> On Apr 10, 2016, at 9:21 AM, Charles Brown <cb31450 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Solipsism is subjective idealism. The notion that an individual can determine their own gender is substituting subjective determination for objective determination.
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> Social rules are just as much an objective reality for individuals (subjects ) as the physical world is . To claim that one can as an individual change the customs and culture , objective reality, is solipsism ; with respect to SOCIAL objective reality. An individual cannot change the rules of a culture any more than they can change the laws of thermodynamics . Society is an objective reality for individuals; that's materialism.
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