Can Laurie Penny really be this stupid? Surely not?
As you can see, the origin is a conversation from last April, which got woken up today. I found LP’s reply as silly as most of her replies to most things, so I felt compelled to contradict her.
Her response? Oyyyyyy
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I needed a good chuckle this evening, that did the trick. Good one, thanks! :)
too lazy today to scroll through his archives, but the NB Moses in Jesus and Mo was the pithiest, funniest take on this!
Shiiit… If the commentators on this site make me feel like the dumbest person in the room on the regular, Penny makes me feel like a brain surgeon every single time I see them tweet.
She is so cringe-inducing.
She’s a published writer, surely she knows what you were doing with that. It’s kind of a meme.
I’m going to go with the option that she really is that stupid.
If you’re tied up in a worldview that insists that people are exactly who and what they say they are (and, as with JKR, the facts of the matter are whatever the current speaker says they are), then I can see how a throwaway tweet involving a supposed dialogue would be confusing.
Lord help her if she ever goes to the theatre. She’d be horrified by the numbers of Danish nobility who’re slaughtered every year for our entertainment.
But so thrilled about all the trans characters.
Penny says that being “Non-Binary” has nothing to do with being a woman or not: she’s “a woman who is also non-binary.” The explanation must be that “non-binary” is in some way irrelevant, or orthogonal to, being female. The (real) sexual binary – the thing that describes the fact that some people are female, and some people are male – isn’t the binary that she’s “non;” it’s some other binary. It’s perhaps the (imaginary) gender binary, which must therefore be a different dimension to the sexual binary. As many commenters pointed out, her claim boils down to her being a woman who doesn’t feel very womanly all the time, which is to say… a woman. “Non-binary” is a marker of imaginary affinity, like saying you are a member of a pop tribe (e.g. emo, goth). It is only significant at all to the extent that a person is obsessed with (imaginary) gender, which the overwhelming majority of people aren’t.
She’s trying to retain dual citizenship, but one of the countries is made of anti-matter. When she tries to stand in both countries at the same time (“I’m NB, neither man, nor woman!” and “I’m a woman!”), things blow up.