Bizarre male tv presenter says India Willoughby is “recognizably, and I think, as far as I know, is legally a woman.”
Recognizably? How? He doesn’t mean “recognizably”; he means something like convincingly. Those are very different things. Yes, some photos of Willoughby make him look quite a bit like a woman, but he’s not recognizable as a woman because he isn’t a woman.
The difference in meaning is matched by the difference in fact. Yes India Willoughby pretends to be a woman; no that does not make India Willoughby a woman. Anybody can pretend to be anything; the imagination is a fine thing; pretending to be X is not the same thing as being X. Willoughby’s fantasies about himself are not binding on the rest of us.
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3 responses to “Your fantasy is not our fantasy”
This confusion of reality and convincing illusion, even conceptually, is really concerning. If people are losing the ability to tell the difference, that’s dangerous for everyone.
Helen is amazing. I’d trade my balls for her ovaries (*wink*)
This disability seems to be curiously particular and intermittent, as these people seem to be capable of more rational discernment when the subject at hand is something other than the latest addition to the Emperor’s wardrobe. It’s almost like they’re capable of having it come and go at will. Funny that.