Well, it happened, Bill Nye, the once proud name in teaching children the importance of science and being featured on that ride with Ellen DeGeneres going back to the age of the Dinosaurs in Disney World Epcot, is now going off the deep end in promoting this crazy idea of gender being a social construct and that gender is on a "spectrum", meaning that men can be women and vice versa. Now I might be missing some things to back up my argument but I know this can somewhat apply to transgenders and this sex change is a result of them dealing with medical disorders that had to be dealt with surgery, but this idea of gender and sex not synonymous at all and that there's more than two is ridiculous (though I personally like to believe there's two and a half genders but that's it). I mean to me, the idea of genders being a "spectrum" that's not related to medical surgery sounds like something out of some nutty fetishist's hentai comic (or manga if you prefer); in fact it's almost like Anime Phsyics for all I care. If that kind of notion is true then where's the instant nosebleeds from looking at attractive people, spiky hairs, and people being punched to the horizon and "turning into stars"? I digress; I should also note that he appears to be shoving this nuttiness down people's faces with the lyrics that sound don't even sound like they belong in a show with Nye involved; it's more like something some left-leaning webseries would have made.
And keep in mind this isn't the only time Nye is getting politicized, he made some false claims about the constitution needing to support sciences and that science is political, though there is plenty of truth to that claim to his credit. Yet ironically he was kicked out of the March For Science well marches for being a white, cishet, male, go figure; I guess that's what he got for being so politicized. I hate to see blacks and non-whites being kicked out for supporting political right wing causes regarding current politics.
Update: Although I must stress that I do sympathize with his claim that climate change must be taken seriously, but he ends up making himself look like a fool by saying that climate change...skeptics need to be locked up and treated on the same page as genocide deniers. Hasn't he heard of like ignoring them since well they aren't completely right on this subject?
Update 2: There seems to be an episode from Nye's old show that explicitly showed that there are two genders and that gender is determined by chromosomes, which would rightly contradict Nye's new view on the spectrum nonsense, that got removed just not too long after the "brilliant" gender "spectrum" episode got released; talk about an act of Minitruth. And now Snopes, the "ever so reliable fact checking site" claims that the "spectrum" thing is true and that the old video that was removed is false the whole time....
I'm going to let this sum up how I feel about the various sites defending this nutty doublethink:
