A single book about being from another solar system
Oh honestly.
I haven’t read a single book by a delusional person about what it’s like to be a tree or a toad or a 747 or a library or New Jersey. Should I feel ashamed? Should I rectify the error? No and no. We don’t have to read about every possible delusion there is. What’s necessary is to grasp that delusions are delusions, which means they’re not the beginning of a new way of being human. They’re just delusions. In the end they’re pretty boring.
What kind of idiot…???
Ok: Books about the human psyche/brain that I’d rather read than a screed written by a delusional patient:
Delusions of Gender
The Brain That Changes Itself
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat
The Invention of Women
Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers
Pink Brain, Blue Brain
Apprentice to Genius
My Stroke of Insight
Phantoms in the Brain
Fixing My Gaze
The Emotional Brain Revisited
On Intelligence
Mapping the Mind
Principles of Neural Science (yep, the textbook)
Divergent Mind
The Language Instinct
The Social Animal
The Happiness Hypothesis
The Mind-Gut Connection
Descartes’ Error
I’m sure there are others. I haven’t had time to work my way through the readings I’d actually be interested in reading, that might actually contribute to my understanding of the world and of others… why the F would I waste my time on deluded rantings?
No amount of writing by men about how they wish they were women, or imagine themselves as women, or twist themselves into pretzels to mimic feminine stereotypes, or anything else, will actually change their biology and make them into women. I don’t have to read what they write to know that they aren’t and can never be women.
I’ve read books by trans people (intentionally and unintentionally), though I don’t think I’ve read any books about ‘being trans’ (as you say, that sounds like a pretty boring topic).
Comerford seems VERY concerned about the awful plight of these precious beings…do we know why this is so incredibly important to him?
I’m reminded of Giliel, one of PZ’s horde, shouting at me a few years ago ‘Have you even read Butler? HAVE YOU?’
It’s just a repackaging of the theists’ argument that atheists can’t legitimately question religious claims unless they’ve read all the major theological works.
And then if you do, they revert to “Yeah, but that’s not really Christianity; it’s not what most people believe”. Here you have ‘lived experience’ – you have to be a believer to question your beliefs.
Same with trans. They have ever more impossible hurdles of things you have to have done to be allowed to even have an opinion, but if you meet those hurdles (and you probably won’t, because they make them hurdles only the ‘true’ trans ideologists can get over), they just set another, higher hurdle.
I’d be willing to bet that a significant number of trans activists and trans activist parrots haven’t read books by trans people. I am certain they haven’t read much by GC feminists, and if they haven’t read the literature, how can they have an opinion on the GC position? s/
I haven’t read any books by trans authors about being trans, but I have read rather a lot of articles by trans authors about being trans, do they not count?