"Of these who are deceived I shall speak of course as we all do of such instruments; judging them by the good they think they are doing, and not by the evil which they really do."
This is why we need to be more comfortable to ask questions. Like "what do you mean?" Or "what's important to you about this?" Or "what's your expectation of me?" Make people take some ownership! Like in the case of using someone's pronouns "So your expectation is that no matter what, people should say what you want to hear?"
It could even be good to make statements like "that's confusing/unclear" or "I don't know what you mean by X".
Overly slippery language is usually crafted that way for exactly that purpose --so nothing sticks to it.
I heartily agree. I find it quite telling that when pressed to defend or even simply to explain their position a TRA’s immediately go on the defensive (or, perhaps, OFFENSIVE) and resort to repeating mantras or accusing the person making the request for clarification of murdering small children and eating their brains.
Yeah, I think a lot of times this is because they haven't thought their position through OR they HAVE and don't want to state it plainly. The guy on the skeptics episode of Glinner's Mess We're In kept saying "it's complex" when asked if he thought adult men (bepenised "trans women" to him) should have access to spaces like women's (and girls') changing rooms until he finally said "yes". It was a revealing moment. Sometimes the obfuscation covers up ignorance, sometimes it covers up something else.
This is why we need to be more comfortable to ask questions. Like "what do you mean?" Or "what's important to you about this?" Or "what's your expectation of me?" Make people take some ownership! Like in the case of using someone's pronouns "So your expectation is that no matter what, people should say what you want to hear?"
It could even be good to make statements like "that's confusing/unclear" or "I don't know what you mean by X".
Overly slippery language is usually crafted that way for exactly that purpose --so nothing sticks to it.
I heartily agree. I find it quite telling that when pressed to defend or even simply to explain their position a TRA’s immediately go on the defensive (or, perhaps, OFFENSIVE) and resort to repeating mantras or accusing the person making the request for clarification of murdering small children and eating their brains.
Yeah, I think a lot of times this is because they haven't thought their position through OR they HAVE and don't want to state it plainly. The guy on the skeptics episode of Glinner's Mess We're In kept saying "it's complex" when asked if he thought adult men (bepenised "trans women" to him) should have access to spaces like women's (and girls') changing rooms until he finally said "yes". It was a revealing moment. Sometimes the obfuscation covers up ignorance, sometimes it covers up something else.
Wow. Eliza, thank you for bringing his important and eloquent words forth.
On the power of language to stupefy useful idiots. Too many of them duped by by the rhetoric of genderism.