The language game – tricks all the way down.
One, “minority.” Montgomerie is a white man, but he’s pretending to be part of an oppressed minority (which is what “minority” is shorthand for in these contexts). White men as such are not an oppressed minority. It could be that he’s homeless or disabled or an immigrant but I don’t think he is any of those things.
Two, “healthcare.” The medical experimentation done on trans people isn’t healthcare; it’s more like malpractice.
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White men are so put upon. As a white man myself, I can attest how hard it is to be the default, to be invisible, to never have any obstacles put in your way. It’s exhausting to search so hard for ways to join the oppressed. I can understand why some might decide to declare themselves women just so finally, finally they can join the ranks of the despised minorities.
(The Washington Post has run some marginally related articles recently, not about trans folks, but about white men. How white men are redefining racism, Don’t drag Asian-Americans into your fight, and Alexandra Petri on why we need to name only white men to the Supreme Court.
Are the profile dinosaurs supposed to be some kind of message to actual feminists, or what?
I think it’s just Montgomerie thumbing his nose (waving his dick) at women as usual.
Well to be a white man (straight even!) in progressive circles is to inherit the ancestral guilt for every bad thing that has ever happened to anyone else… which is where white women come in and through some alchemy become even more to blame for said bad things.
Ophelia@3:
That and…well, I can hardly bring myself to type this, but the dinosaur emojii are trans.
The person who created them has supposedly said so. I’m not going into how a dinosaur might be trans, let alone a low resolution drawing of a non-specific dinosaur, but the narrative goes something like this:
This is precisely the level of discourse to which some people are reduced. The ones in Monty’s profile are surely there for nose-thumbing and dick-waving purposes, but partly for the appropriation (he’s stealing ‘our’ symbols) and partly for the in joke (feminists, lol). Bland, unimaginative pettiness, as usual.
It’s bland unimaginative pettiness that identifies as brilliant dry wit.