Utterly mad developments that go unchecked until they result in totalitarian imposition of practices at odds with basic human nature start in the rarified atmosphere of conference papers and "academic" fields made up out of whole cloth.
Case in point: the "transgender" phenomenon, and the pace at which it's gathered momentum.
The most notable aspect of this latest public eruption of academic theory is how quickly the new academically driven moral consensus was formed. The current wave of non-academic transgender activism began last summer, when the New York Times ran a full-page editorial declaring that the oppression of the transgendered by the biologically obsessed heteronormative majority was our most pressing civil-rights struggle. The Times then followed up with a series of news stories documenting the alleged oppression and plight of the “trans community.” Now, less than a year later, any parent with qualms about having his twelve-year-old daughter share a locker room with a 14-year-old boy is branded as the equivalent of someone advocating a return to whites-only water fountains. An issue that didn’t even exist a year ago is now completely settled in the minds of the cultural elite; anyone who opposes the new regime is simply an atavistic, benighted bigot.
How short are the memories of the politically righteous! In the 1970s, Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg pooh-poohed as sheer demagoguery the idea that the Equal Rights Amendment would require co-ed bathrooms, her implicit assumption being that such an arrangement would of course be preposterous. In 1991, the Michigan Women’s Festival expelled a transsexual woman on the ground that she was in biological fact a male. The First International Conference on Crossdressing, Sex, and Gender at California State University, Northridge, in 1995 maintained separate bathroom facilities for males and females, causing a protest by trans activists. Gay-rights activist and historian Martin Duberman stormed out of a gender-theory presentation. Now those early advocates for gay and women’s rights would be lumped into the same category as segregationists. Wellesley and Smith have twisted themselves into knots deciding whether the “trans” category trumps the favored status of females.
So we can't just roll our eyes and assume these "ideas" stay isolated in la-la land:
. . . we have learned that all academic High Theory bears watching. The conceptual roots of gender theory lie in 1970s-era deconstruction and post-structuralism, with their pretense to having obliterated the traditional categories of Western epistemology and metaphysics. From Jacques Derrida’s purported “deconstruction” of the privileging of the spoken word over the written sign, and of presence over absence, it turned out to be not so big a step to the alleged dismantling of the biological difference between male and female.
When I first started using the term cattle-masses here at LITD, I was mainly thinking in terms of the economic-dependency mindset. Of course, now it applies to a post-American human's very sense of the essence with which God imbued him. Or her. Or now, I guess, it.
There is always this thing called civil disobedience. It's working in other areas, but so slow going to regain freedoms lost to the jackboots.
ReplyDeleteSo do you really think the cattle masses are all for men in the women's locker room? I don't think so, but at least it gives you another opportunity to insult all of us alleged post-Americans. Let a little sunshine into your cranium sometimes will you? How many good old time Americans do you figure we have left? I'd guess it would be those favored Cruz. If a man who identifies as a woman has his penis removed and now sports a purdy V, well, then, what's the diff? But a swingin' D in the woman's locker room ain't gonna cut it with most folks here today, I'm pretty darned sure. Still thinking how civil disobedience would come into play here. You know a vestie might well get their ass kicked if they show up in a men's locker room, for sure. Maybe thrusting his naked ass out without leaving any marks might work? I dunno, but the problem lies largely with the women's rooms and gals traditionally do not settle differences that way.
ReplyDeleteI am confident we will see many more situations such as this occurring in early post-America, and it didn't go down well at all. Such humans should be afraid. Very afraid!
ReplyDeleteTransgender Student in Women's Locker Room Raises Uproar
November 3, 2012
By ALYSSA NEWCOMB
The decision to allow a transgender 45-year-old college student who identifies as a woman but has male genitalia to use the women's locker room has raised a fracas among parents and faith-based organizations, who say children as young as 6 years old use the locker room.
The locker room at Evergreen College in Olympia, Wash., is shared with the Capital High School swim club and a children's swim academy, along with the students at Evergreen.
"The college has to follow state law," Evergreen spokesman Jason Wettstein told ABC News affiliate KOMO. "The college cannot discriminate based on the basis of gender identity. Gender identity is one of the protected things in discrimination law in this state."
But according to parents, the fact that the student has exposed her male genitalia, in one instance in the sauna, is cause for concern.
"[A mother] reported her daughter was upset because she observed a person at the women's locker room naked and displaying male genitalia," said a police report filed in September by a mother on behalf of her 17-year-old daughter.
The Alliance Defending Freedom, an Arizona-based religious liberties group, sent a letter to Evergreen College on Friday, warning it that the decision to allow the transgender student to continue using the locker room could put the school in jeopardy.
"The fact that this individual was sitting in plain view of young girls changing into their swimsuits puts you and Evergreen on notice of possible future harm," David Hacker, senior legal counsel, wrote.
The college has installed privacy curtains, and said it would not change its policy for now.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/11/transgender-student-in-womens-locker-room-raises-uproar/
via GOOD MORNING AMERICA
The American College of Pediatricians has released an in-depth report stating that the move to indoctrinate children with the idea that they can pick their gender amounts to child abuse. They are urging legislators and educators to reject all policies that would condition children to accept chemical and surgical distortions allowing people to impersonate the opposite sex.
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ACP report is an encouraging move, to be sure. One way to look at it is that it's a solution in search of a problem. I would imagine that us aging boomers have, in our many decades of using public restrooms, shared them with "transgendered" people and were none the wiser. The thing is, for the hard Left, such as the MEC and Loretta Lynch, this isn't about the "transgendered." It's about obliterating states' rights, separation of federal powers under the Constitution, and all and any understanding of human sexuality that our species had accumulated over the last 10,000 years.
ReplyDeleteI recall watching this chick at a Big 10 football game pull her long hair up under her baseball hat and go into the men's room once. I guessed it was to avoid the long lines at the women's.
ReplyDeleteI do not think that the hard left will succeed here. As for viewing so many of your fellow Americans, as LBJ used to call us, as a mass of cattle, take a clue from some of the latest psych research, although, if you don't agree, there might be a tendency to call them "hard left" as you seem to do with many academics these days:
"The simple tendency to see people negatively indicates a greater likelihood of depression and various personality disorders." Besides being a fascinating glimpse into the weird and complex human mind, the findings also suggests a powerful hack for evaluating others people's character--if you want to know if they themselves display a trait, just find a way to ask how common they think it is in others. The more of a quality they see around them, the more they probably possess themselves.
read more at http://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/how-to-read-someone-s-personality-just-ask-this-1-question.html?cid=cp01002readersdigest&trkid=FBPAGE_RD_20160517_Inc_Article
In other words, spot it, you got it.
ReplyDeleteI dunno. I hate tyranny and perversion.
ReplyDeleteMore to the current point, clarity is one of my top priorities in life, and I don't think I'm in any danger of developing a mindset of seeing the government as providing a bunch of "services" and making life "fair."
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