One of the threads that ties the new global empire of disembodiment together is all the pretending that goes on, including the expectation that women will pretend not to pretend. Take prostitution. When men pay for sex, the women they buy sex from are supposed to act like they're not being paid. As Kajsa Ekis Ekman puts it: "The best prostitute, therefore, is the one who doesn't act like a prostitute but never forgets that she is one."
The "world of agreement," whose boundaries are constantly being negotiated by those with the most power and/or the loudest voices, restricts access to the most commonly desired privileges, including food, homes, social approval, and sexual gratification. As well as perceived moral superiority.
It's all a pay-to-play scheme in a consensual delusion, administered by the patriarchy.
Feb 26, 2022·edited Feb 26, 2022Liked by Eliza Mondegreen
I promise I won’t keep saying this, but great piece once again.
You just explain this whole issue so brilliantly.
Anyway, there’s a part of me that thinks one thing the Ukraine war might achieve is a renewed respect for reality. It’s difficult to remember all the pretending about not pretending we’re supposed to be doing when there’s a war on.
I’m not saying it’s anything like worth the price, of course.
"To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it ... to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again, and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself."
Spot on. We're just starting to see the answer to the question: 'What happens when humans have 24/7 access to hardcore, uncensored porn for the first time?' And porn doesn't work without pretending.
How trans activists managed to enforce complicity in all the pretending by framing it a "moral" issue, is one of the great con-tricks of our time.
Maybe there’s a middle ground. Maybe we could agree to call blokes in dresses “women”, as long as we can use the scare quotes in writing and do the fingers in the air thing?
"Trans-identified males" (TiMs -- or TiFs) is the best option wherever possible, as it keeps the situation perfectly clear. It acknowledges the "trans" claim, the "identity" claim, AND the sex. So it's polite but unyielding of essential ground.
Complicity in the lie is part of the price of admission to the artificial reality.
And what’s the benefit?
I suppose it’s a very flimsy perceived moral superiority. I think I’ll pass.
The "world of agreement," whose boundaries are constantly being negotiated by those with the most power and/or the loudest voices, restricts access to the most commonly desired privileges, including food, homes, social approval, and sexual gratification. As well as perceived moral superiority.
It's all a pay-to-play scheme in a consensual delusion, administered by the patriarchy.
I promise I won’t keep saying this, but great piece once again.
You just explain this whole issue so brilliantly.
Anyway, there’s a part of me that thinks one thing the Ukraine war might achieve is a renewed respect for reality. It’s difficult to remember all the pretending about not pretending we’re supposed to be doing when there’s a war on.
I’m not saying it’s anything like worth the price, of course.
From 1984:
"To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it ... to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again, and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself."
So true! Arrr!!
Spot on. We're just starting to see the answer to the question: 'What happens when humans have 24/7 access to hardcore, uncensored porn for the first time?' And porn doesn't work without pretending.
How trans activists managed to enforce complicity in all the pretending by framing it a "moral" issue, is one of the great con-tricks of our time.
Maybe there’s a middle ground. Maybe we could agree to call blokes in dresses “women”, as long as we can use the scare quotes in writing and do the fingers in the air thing?
"Trans-identified males" (TiMs -- or TiFs) is the best option wherever possible, as it keeps the situation perfectly clear. It acknowledges the "trans" claim, the "identity" claim, AND the sex. So it's polite but unyielding of essential ground.
Yes, it makes sense. I’m just messing about though. The situation is so absurd that humour (such as it is) keeps me sane.
I’ll let them have the word “galz” but only if they spell it with a ‘z’
Yeah, I like that! It must be nice for you real women though, in a way; imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
I just don’t know why they all go for the Wilma Flintstone look.
If you can stomach it look at online reviews of prostitutes for male delusional behaviour.