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Two Spirit Is A Colonial Invention Says Indigenous Feminist · Radio Baloney - The Richie Baloney Show!

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  Well, this is inconvenient, isn't it. Here's the headline from post millennial
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  First Nation's Feminists says two spirit gender expression is a colonial invention, and she
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  adds a First Nations women know where babies come from. But I'm sorry,
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  that's not what the CBC told me. A First Nation's feminist scholar told a
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  crowd in Burnaby, British Columbia recently that the two spirit concept is a colonial
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  invention and was first proposed in nineteen ninety by gay rights activists as a way
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  of depicting people who identify as both gay and indigenous. So essentially they just
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  made it up. At Doctor Cherry Smiley criticized the entire transgender movement for attempting
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  to undermine women's rights and erode the feminist creed that women have historically been oppressed
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  by men, so there's all of that, and to make things worse now,
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  they're giving her entire women's lacrosse team concussions. Let's see. She argued
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  that if biological men con pose as women, women's rights are downgraded in the
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  process, dismissing the two spirited talk as something that is not even in the
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  First Nation's lexicon. So apparently she spoke at the Feminists Speak Out, a
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  March twenty first event, and that was organized by the Vancouver Lesbian Collective,
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  which also featured this British philosopher, doctor Kathleen Stock, And I guess this
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  is Kathleen Stock here, and yep, definitely a lesbian. She said,
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  buzzing after fantastic evening in Vancouver organized by Vancouver Lesbians with amazing fellow speakers Cherry
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  Smiley. Blah blah blah. And she says, you're buzzing after fantastic evening,
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  So I guess there must have been free oat bars and obviously a lot
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  of complaining and absolutely zero jokes. Quote first Nations, women know where babies
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  come from, Smiley told an appreciative audience, reiterating her belief that it is
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  biological sex and not gender, that characterizes how Aboriginal people understand the dynamic of
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  male and female relationships. Now, she says here that the idea that gender
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  can trump sex is a byproduct of the colonialism spawned by you guessed it,
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  white men. Wow, that comes as a shock to me. So I
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  guess I was with her right up until that point. But let's take a
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  look into this. And here's the Wikipedia page for two spirits. So we're
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  not looking at some right wing blog. This is going to be the most
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  sympathetic, wokest interpretation of it. So it says here that deck coined in
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  nineteen ninety as a primarily ceremonial term promoting community recognition. In recent years,
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  more individuals have taken to self identifying as to spirit. Two spirit as a
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  termin concept is neither used nor accepted universally in Native American cultures. So here
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  we have it. It was just made up in nineteen ninety. So the
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  neologism to spirit was developed over a series of five conferences, concluding in nineteen
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  ninety at the third Annual Intertribal Native American First Nations Gay and Lesbian American Conference
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  in Winnipeg. And I've been to Winnipeg and I enjoyed my time there.
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  But somehow it does make it all the more ludicrous, doesn't it. But
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  it says here that this happened at the annual Intertribal Native American First Nations Gay
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  and Lesbian Conference and women, so why are they blaming me? They did
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  this to themselves. And look, I'm sure white leftists encouraged all this in
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  between self flagellation sessions. But at the end of the day, you did
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  this to yourselves. And just because saying the words two spirit sends Justin Trudeau
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  into rapturous ecstasy, still does it make it my fault Anyway. That's all
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