Gaspy McGaspface
This guy. Honestly.
He doesn’t so much gasp as emit a loud histrionic breath-squeal of shock-horror when Bev Jackson says “We personally don’t believe that anyone can be born in the wrong body.”
We not only don’t believe it, we can’t believe it. It’s six impossible things before breakfast all over again. We can’t believe these dopy science-fictiony fantasy run amok claims, because they are not believable.
I suppose they think there’s a giant warehouse in the sky, full of angels in overalls putting the right soul in the right body and occasionally getting it wrong. The box was mislabeled, or an angel is hungover after all that beer mixed with vodka, or they do it on purpose because they know it teases.
The full video:
“I suppose they think there’s a giant warehouse in the sky, full of angels in overalls putting the right soul in the right body and occasionally getting it wrong. The box was mislabeled, or an angel is hungover after all that beer mixed with vodka, or they do it on purpose because they know it teases.”
I like this. A lot. (Especially “angels in overalls.”)
I always figured there was a Gender Fairy, pink, blue, and sparkly, which flitted through the hospitals tapping newborns with its wand. And maybe sometimes the Gender Fairy gets some glitter up its nose and misses and zaps a boy with the girl gender magic, or vice versa.
It is a good interview with Bev Jackson, though. She seems so measured and reasonable, whereas young Benjamin Butterworth seems like a silly little git. He could have been a housemate on the Young Ones.
Benjamin Butterworth also seemed rather back-footed by the question of whether he would date a “gay man” who is really a woman. It seemed like his answer was that he wouldn’t, and that doesn’t make him transphobic, but Bev Jackson is transphobic for wanting the complementary choice.
Nice Alice references. :)
Are we sure Butterworth isn’t secretly funded by Our Side? If not, he should be.
I see lots of talk about the body, and whether it is the correct one for the mind one has, but this is mixing up cause and effect. The mind is caused by the body – it is an emergent property of the brain. Saying that a person has a body that mismatches the mind is the same as saying the mind mismatches the body, but how can it be the wrong mind for that body, when it is produced specifically and uniquely by it? Every mind is the bespoke creation of one brain and one brain only. Anything else is dualism.
And yes, that gasp was pure performance art. It goes hand in hand with the 50% suicide rate lie.
Genuine enquiry from a straight man, am I being stereotypey to think that Benjamin Butterworth’s casual aside to the age of finding one’s transness being about the same age as finding one’s gayness a significant correlation worthy of attention?
My instinct says yes, but I worry I may be making the mistake of associating feminine/masculine gender performance with orientation.
bascule, I see some significance there: Benjamin Butterworth sees transness as a sort of sexual preference. True sexual orientation (not the pretended, retroactive “I always knew” stuff) only comes around after puberty. Many people don’t realize their true sexual orientation until years after puberty.
This is one of the reasons we know that eleven year olds insisting they’re transgender is bullshit.
The Mormons have a thing about warehoused ‘souls’ awaiting birth. Another justification for breeding like rabbits. I wonder if there’s some hidden cultural link?