This sounds like an episode of the Twilight Zone. I have a Big mouth and a friend who appreciated my Big mouth wrote to me 30 years ago and asked me to please never shut up. Thank you for having some Big writing in all this insanity. Please keep it up and vaporize this rot.
"The number of people currently claiming to have a gender identity is less than the number who were claiming aliens were probing their bumholes 20 years ago. Just because a phenomenon has been studied doesn't mean it exists outside a belief in it" @ Shatterface (Twitter) 3:02 PM May 9, 2021
Gender ideology must be seen as the latest manifestation of the creationism that is our Abrahamic intellectual inheritance. The fact that humans are animals has always sat uneasily in a mind inculcated with Christian and, especially, post-Christian prejudices. Denial or trivialization of sexual dimorphism springs from the same impulse that drives fundamentalists to attack evolution.
I see a lot of anti-woke types suggesting a return to religion/Christianity as a solution to our cultural problems. (In fact, Unherd has a piece to that effect on the front page right now). What you said gets to one of the reasons that view drives me nuts. Maybe it would work as a sort of berm to redirect the flow of the insanity, but it wouldn't address the causes of or fix any of it.
I think you're referring to the new article by Ayaan Hirsi Ali. I found it interesting, if not personally convincing. Myself, I'm tolerant of both traditional religion and its bastard child, secular liberalism, provided they don't try to impose their metaphysical conceptions on science, or otherwise demand fealty to their belief systems.
And as for traditional religion, it must be said, whatever you think about it, at least it's more realistic than gender ideology about the bare fact of sexual dimorphism and its inescapable social significance. Liberalism used to acknowledge the reality too, but that was back before the mass insanity brought about by social media and the smartphone.
I stopped reading Ayaan Hirsi Ali because I concluded she was insufficiently acculturated to American norms and values, particularly the ones rooted in our intellectual history, to be a reliable observer and critic of American life and politics.
Interestingly, the sort of intellectuals and pundits who prescribe a return to the halcyon days when nuclear families dutifully trooped to the chapel in their Sunday best to bow their heads in prayer in the manner of a Norman Rockwell illustration are usually thoroughly secular in outlook. It's clear they have someone else in mind, probably the same proles they criticize for not being sufficiently interested in politics, e.g., "You know, the public really doesn't care about _______."
Yikes, in the States this farce would already have been sued into oblivion for onerous employment harassment. There must be reasonable time limits for disciplinary processes.
In a just world, it would be gender affirming mental heath and medical professionals who would be fighting to retain their licenses in front of professional responsibility panels.
In fact, can members of the public file complaints with professional licensing boards? Canada must have its share of gender affirming therapists and doctors who long ago crossed the line from exercising objective reasonable care in their practices to cutting corners and ignoring the science in furtherance of gender identity ideology. Might this be the time for gender critical activists to go after their professional licenses strategically and pursuant to the advice of qualified legal counsel? It would be like litigation only the forum would be the conference rooms of licensing organizations instead of the courtroom. Each time a licensing board rejected a complaint would be an opportunity to make the gender critical case on social media and willing mainstream media.
This sounds like an episode of the Twilight Zone. I have a Big mouth and a friend who appreciated my Big mouth wrote to me 30 years ago and asked me to please never shut up. Thank you for having some Big writing in all this insanity. Please keep it up and vaporize this rot.
"The number of people currently claiming to have a gender identity is less than the number who were claiming aliens were probing their bumholes 20 years ago. Just because a phenomenon has been studied doesn't mean it exists outside a belief in it" @ Shatterface (Twitter) 3:02 PM May 9, 2021
https://cutdowntree.substack.com/p/gender-identity-isnt-real
Gender ideology must be seen as the latest manifestation of the creationism that is our Abrahamic intellectual inheritance. The fact that humans are animals has always sat uneasily in a mind inculcated with Christian and, especially, post-Christian prejudices. Denial or trivialization of sexual dimorphism springs from the same impulse that drives fundamentalists to attack evolution.
I see a lot of anti-woke types suggesting a return to religion/Christianity as a solution to our cultural problems. (In fact, Unherd has a piece to that effect on the front page right now). What you said gets to one of the reasons that view drives me nuts. Maybe it would work as a sort of berm to redirect the flow of the insanity, but it wouldn't address the causes of or fix any of it.
I think you're referring to the new article by Ayaan Hirsi Ali. I found it interesting, if not personally convincing. Myself, I'm tolerant of both traditional religion and its bastard child, secular liberalism, provided they don't try to impose their metaphysical conceptions on science, or otherwise demand fealty to their belief systems.
And as for traditional religion, it must be said, whatever you think about it, at least it's more realistic than gender ideology about the bare fact of sexual dimorphism and its inescapable social significance. Liberalism used to acknowledge the reality too, but that was back before the mass insanity brought about by social media and the smartphone.
I stopped reading Ayaan Hirsi Ali because I concluded she was insufficiently acculturated to American norms and values, particularly the ones rooted in our intellectual history, to be a reliable observer and critic of American life and politics.
Interestingly, the sort of intellectuals and pundits who prescribe a return to the halcyon days when nuclear families dutifully trooped to the chapel in their Sunday best to bow their heads in prayer in the manner of a Norman Rockwell illustration are usually thoroughly secular in outlook. It's clear they have someone else in mind, probably the same proles they criticize for not being sufficiently interested in politics, e.g., "You know, the public really doesn't care about _______."
She does now deserve this. Women who are leaving these crossdressing men have too often been raped by them. I have the only data in the world on this~
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afb5rdiIakc&t=19s
Yikes, in the States this farce would already have been sued into oblivion for onerous employment harassment. There must be reasonable time limits for disciplinary processes.
In a just world, it would be gender affirming mental heath and medical professionals who would be fighting to retain their licenses in front of professional responsibility panels.
In fact, can members of the public file complaints with professional licensing boards? Canada must have its share of gender affirming therapists and doctors who long ago crossed the line from exercising objective reasonable care in their practices to cutting corners and ignoring the science in furtherance of gender identity ideology. Might this be the time for gender critical activists to go after their professional licenses strategically and pursuant to the advice of qualified legal counsel? It would be like litigation only the forum would be the conference rooms of licensing organizations instead of the courtroom. Each time a licensing board rejected a complaint would be an opportunity to make the gender critical case on social media and willing mainstream media.