The chosen hill
Another one of those “Just a reminder that bullshit bullshit bullshit” tweets.
Yeah. Nobody ever heard of it until the invention of trans.
Strangio was told her transness wasn’t real, and women are told the category “women” isn’t real. What about the toll on women? Women who don’t claim to be men and don’t believe that men can become women – what about the toll on them? On us? Why doesn’t that matter?
I can’t find the tweet that Singal shows us; maybe Strangio deleted it. It’s not all that appropriate for an ACLU spokes.
“the emergence of “biological sex” as a legal category is recent”
Hahahahahahaha, yeah, sure, for certain very large year-values of “recent”, as in all of recorded human history. Not everything is about you, “Chase”.
One more for the reading list.
Interesting. The American CIVIL LIBERTIES Union is seeking a good ol’ book ban. Never mind that it has defended even nazis’ rights to speak their ideas, apparently saying ‘sex exists’ is worse than that.
Question for Chase: on what basis was half of the population excluded from wealth, political power, property rights, bodily autonomy et al.? And as this half of the population was begrudgingly granted entry into public life, on what basis were laws made for their protection against e.g. discrimination, harassment, privacy etc.? Why did half of the newly mandated public toilets have urinals, and half not?
…And so on.
It’s cognitive dissonance taking that toll on him.
So there are three sexes, not two: 1. male, 2. trans and 3. female; in whichever preferred order. But that is unfair and unjust, as it leaves out the possible categories in between, like say 1. male, 2. more male trans, 3. trans 4. more female trans, 5. female.
But it need not stop there: It could be 1. hypermale, 2. male, 3. more male trans, 3. trans 4. more female trans, 5. female, 6. hyperfemale.
But it need not stop there, either….
(Aside: I need a drink. Make it beer. No make that transbeer… No make that…)
Again with the pretence that there’s been “men” and “women” for all of human history but it was only the day before yesterday that some evil Terfs noticed that there are two categories of crotch anatomy. Why are people not just pointing and laughing at these clowns? (Rhetorical question)
With luck, we might at least get some Streisand Effect out of this. I can’t be the only one who sometimes buys forbidden books out of principle.
(I don’t uncritically love this book, it had a somewhat off-putting overwrought tone of Concerned Mother rather than the dry wit of, say, Difficult Women, but the content is sound).
It was not a good look for the ACLU to abandon women in the name of chasing strange. Now the resident creep is proposing banning books? Maybe it’s time for some introspection over there.
Censorship is a hill to die on? That puts Chasio in some unsavory company.
Back in the mists of time (maybe 30 years ago?) my wife decided to buy The Satanic Verses specifically because people were trying to forbid it. She didn’t expect to like it, but actually she thought it was a work of genius from the first page. (I enjoyed it much less than she did.)
Athel, I put The Satanic Verses on my wish list for the same reason. A librarian friend of mine bought it for me for the same reason. And like your wife, I loved it.
Not all banned books are worth reading, but I am still willing to consider that as an incentive. I’ve bought a couple of books just because the trans community got angry with them. And my latest novel (haven’t finished yet) contains a scene that will almost certainly get the trans panties in a wad if it should ever get published, even though it takes up a total of one line in an entire book.
“Women who don’t claim to be men and don’t believe that men can become women – what about the toll on them? On us? Why doesn’t that matter?”
A rhetorical question if I ever saw one, but alas I have no true freewill so I must respond like a moth to the false moon of the porch light. Blame it on secularism.
We humans have this huge logic sized hole in our brains that seems to scream out to be filled by some fantastical bullshit. Real critical thinking is way too hard. In the absence of old style religion, we cling to any kind of intellectual flotsam we can grab onto. Faith as it turns out is far easier than defensible logic so critical thinkers are always at odds with believers.
I don’t know…I think we also have a something in our brains (I don’t know what to call it) that likes to declutter. I’m like that, and I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one. I don’t want a lot of beliefs piling up catching dust and causing me to trip and go splat.
Also isn’t there another brain-thingummy that dislikes being made a fool of? That bit that goes “Oh come on, I’m not THAT stupid”?
That’s the part of the brain that often leads people double down on their stupidity. Rather than jettison nonsensical beliefs early, the impulse drives people to hang on tighter, because being wrong to any degree is intolerable.