I dunno, it’s really a win-win, because if they position themselves as the tranny party and lose, they can spend four years blaming anti-tranny bigotry the way they spent 2017-21 blaming racism. Even out of official power, they massively moved the Overton window on race issues in those years. If they can become the tranny party and lose, you’ll have most of society believing the most extreme forms of queer theory by 2028.
In a somewhat less serious vein, I read a bit from my one of my Calvin and Hobbes books recently and was blown away at how apt sone of the strips lampooning victimhood culture were to modern times, despite being written no later than 1995. History really does rhyme.
The problem is he did not think the solution was to hand over full control of government and thereafter our lives to a small self-appointed group of pseudo-religious elites.
My thoughts exactly. Most men don’t want the things she misses, or want it in comparatively smaller doses (like friendship), so if her still-female brain wants them, she’s gonna have a bad time. Even when men want more of those things than they are presently getting, our brains are wired to choose between to either getting up and chasing them, or to stop caring about them, and not option three that this chick chose, which is to cry about it.
I’ve always believed that there are certain things you really can’t say about yourself, only other people can say them about you. Just about any description of skill in any field for example, or women’s common assertion about being “strong and confident” — some things are just too easy to assert and can only really be accurately judged from outside, based on observation. I think I better add “emotional maturity” to that list.
Actual men are wired to have the potential not to be bothered by the stuff she’s complaining about. Obviously if you look at a lot of lefties this potential goes undeveloped. But for the rest of us, quite literally our brains are set on a path to develop so that we don’t actually care about people being afraid of us, or being cold toward us, or “not wanting to hug” us as this girl says. Hard to develop friendships??? I have like four friends and don’t think I could stand to have any more lololol. Most of us don’t even want to hold hand hands and cry and be vulnerable, those things this “man” says “he” misses about being a woman. If you want that, switch back lol. That shit doesn’t happen on this side of the ledger, and not for lack of trying but for lack of interest among the people who live over here!
Edit: oh and just wait until her female body lets her down trying to lift something or carry something in public, and her female brain starts searching for someone to come help, but everyone sees a beard and a man-like face and thinks “look at this pathetic little shit” instead of “oh wow, I should help!”
God damnit lol. I had actually already typed “He looks exactly how I expected” and then I scrolled to the top comment, yours, and lo and behold. Great minds think alike and so forth.
It’s really funny how this sort of thing stacks up. Canadian leftists are way more cucked even than US leftists when it comes to “this is stolen land” type bullshit. They quite literally think they don’t belong in their own country, the US left is not yet at that extreme stage, even if they seem destined to get there sooner or later. (Our leftists are still “only” on the whimpering land acknowledgement stage). And yet the same Canadian leftists then turn around and tell a subsequent immigrant group that THEY don’t belong if they don’t accept the WHITE Canadians’ values?
Honestly, let’s settle it with a fight. In a battle royale between an Indian, a Muslim, and a white leftist I’m not 100 percent sure who would win (though I have an inkling), but I do know the white leftist would be the first to fall.
I’ve always had two problems with that term, in addition to the one you mention. (1) It’s clear that TRAs have abused the language of gender far enough that one can be the opposite gender even if they NEVER get the “op” and (2) a “pre-op” trans woman and a “post-op” trans woman are both equally men for anything that matters in most social contexts. That is, outside of sexual activity (where the presence or absence of body parts makes a difference), there’s no difference when it comes to other people — a big human with a body built by testosterone-driven biology could still beat the shit out of female patrons in the women’s spa if he gets angry, the fact he hasn’t cut his dick off yet, or he has, doesn’t really make a difference. This article implies that sensible sex-segregation is no longer needed if a guy is “committed” to femininity enough to get the surgery. The dude is still a dude though!
I feel like it’s not hard to develop the courage and conviction to be able to enforce standards -- if a Russian grandmother can do it, anyone can — but it’s almost impossible to get that conviction back once you’ve given it up. In the United States, certainly left wingers have given up all conviction and courage. And they did it willingly in the name of “tolerance” and “love.” To put it another way, it’s very easy to lock a door but if you open it, it’s a lot harder to eject people who have come in. This would not be a hard issue if lefties and even gay activists had said from the start, “LOL you think you can change your gender? Nope, stay the fuck out of women’s spaces, dude.” But they opened the metaphorical door (and actual doors) a tiny bit because tolerance, and a million perverts and mentally ill people rushed in. Now the “tolerant” people don’t have the social power or courage of conviction to throw them out again. The only good solution was not to have opened the door in the first place. But if one tranny has been able to get into a women’s spa, every tranny will want the same privilege.
I think it can be an interesting area of thought if you aren’t trying to use it to push a revolution. I think it’s interesting to ask, how much of “femininity” or “masculinity” derives from the average biological makeup of females vs males, and how much is centered more on social choices/custom/etc. over time.
Unfortunately, almost no one wants to look at gender/sex questions outside the context of trying to push their preferred revolution.
I tell people there is a third gender but humanity hasn’t discovered it yet. I figure that’s at least as likely as “non-binary” being a thing or dragongender and shit like that. (That is, statistically zero).
Same here! The only way I could act harder against them is if I could force THEM to buy some of my old furniture or something.
This is what critical theory language games do to people. “Just leave kids out of it” is a perfectly sensible statement and a reasonable standard to set. Yes, some lefties are actual pedophiles but most aren’t simply because most people aren’t pedophiles. But the critical theory language game players insist that their preferred subtext exists in every statement (and also that “language is never neutral,” which pushes their right to claim there is a subtext) and in any statement insisting kids be left out of adult discussions and activism, they have convinced a lot of idiots that the subtext is “murder trans kids” or else, “he’s saying all gay people are pedophiles.”
And then the actual gay pedophiles are just laughing in the corner. Both parts of the team win. The critical theorists want to break down society in order to institute Marxist government: their intentional confusion of language breaks the world down just a little more, and the consequences against this guy make the next guy less likely to speak up. …and the pedophiles now have slightly easier access to kids, since people are less likely to speak up and normies think “just don’t touch kids” is actually a dog whistle and not a sensible statement. Everybody wins! Except decent people and kids.
I will be very honest. If troons and pro-troon scientists could actually wave a Godlike hand and create a fully functioning woman from a male (anything), then I’d admit you can change your gender and we wouldn’t have to have these arguments. Because the troons would be right!
But you can’t actually do that, so….
(I figure the stupidity of this analogy is so obvious that I would go with a different tack for this post).
Ah, so the next game is to retcon common Internet slangs to… make it even easier to cancel people over old tweets, blogs, and so forth? To the point where you can cancel anyone at all, as long as ever used an innocuous slang term that you’ve successfully retconned into something offensive?
I’ve said on here before that I used to be a journalist. This guy gets it. There is SO much you can do to push your narrative, if you want to, beyond just simply stating it as truth in the body of an article. He’s so right to point out the seemingly small things like choice of photos, and, especially now in an era where most people just read the headline and share the link on Twitter, the choice of terminology in the headline. I never wanted to push a narrative, but I’d say about 3/4 of my colleagues did, and would use these somewhat more subconscious techniques to drive a point home.
Free speech? Just don't offend anyone!
Add to that, “and our side finds everything offensive!”
My god, lol, I’m glad I was in public school in the 90s and early 2000s. The teacher would be calling me “they” all year, and I wouldn’t respond to anything but my name. I’d be very willing to see who broke first, me answering to a “they/them” or the teacher using “he/him” without me specifying. I think I could win that fight or force a yearlong draw.
I get the feeling actual women athletes know exactly where they stand against men, but I’m sure some non-athletic feminists were shocked by this result. Especially the kind who vocally support trannies in women’s sport.
But I don’t give much credit for the USWNT realistically knowing where they stand against men since they spent about a decade arguing they were “better than the men” when that was convenient to their salary lawsuits. (Plus the little discussed fact that the national team was just chasing the bag for their own limited roster — there is an entire women’s league in the US, where most of the players won’t make the national team, and the suing players didn’t seem concerned that the non-USWNT players get paid diddly squat.)
This sort of outgoing racist potshot non-apology is so common when a leftist faces “consequence culture” that someone smarter than me should come up with a name for it. They literally do this every time one of them gets fired for being a complete asshole. The only thing that varies is which minority group that roar about as they pack up their desks.
The more self-aware leftists are definitely trying to prolong the trans fight by finding ever new spaces for troons to invade, leading to ever new battles in the wider trans war, so as to stave off the day when the left’s endless-revolution tendency forces them to stand up for pedophiles as the next oppressed class need their help. They know what a disaster that will be. It’s also part of the reason they “find” new exciting forms of racism under every stone; that also keeps the wider war in a safer field of topics. And yet of course a ton of pro-pedo SJWs are already slipping through the cracks, they’re raring to go. I kind of can’t wait for the kids to stop thinking genderspecialness is cool, because then the SJWs won’t have the troon issue as a distraction and will have to actually choose whether to fight for pedos. I hold out about a two percent chance that they won’t lol.
AOC for example using the typical teenage girl retort of claiming men who criticise her just want to date her when literally nobody fucking brought it up.
Apart from the fact that AOC basically just acts like a teenager all the time, the other thing happening there is that women are wired to want to be perceived as pretty. No matter how much they claim they want to be seen as successful, fierce, StRoNg AnD cOnFiDeNt, you’ll notice that a majority of the ways they express those alleged traits is based on appearance and that even when they make social media posts about how successful or fierce they are, it always comes with the hottest selfie they can get in the moment and the comments are half “you look great, girl!” It’s based in “if I’m hot I get to have sex” psychologically, but they get similar dopamine hits from being told they look good, be talked about as if they look good, getting to do things associated with good looking people (getting asked to prom, rushing a sorority, etc etc). It’s just part of their makeup. Even Lizzo couldn’t be content with being perceived as a talent musician, or with her celebrity wealth, or with all the cool stuff and opportunities she has as a result. No, even she has to try and make people call her the new beauty standard, because she’s a woman and women need to be perceived as attractive.
As we all know, Elon always means what he says, commits to each new feature or change, and never backtracks based on public opinion, pressure, or financial considerations. This feature will absolutely not be subject to special exemptions for governments who might pay or pressure him, will be equally applied to all governments, and will not suddenly vanish one day when Elon’s goldfish brain sees some other shiny thing in front of him.
To quote the greatest philosopher of the 31st century, “I am shocked, shocked! Well, not that shocked.”