The trans movement is best understood as a whacked-out religion. They can think whatever they want, no matter how crazy, just as long as they don't try to force their views on others.
Every time I think how absolutely nuts these people are, I remind myself that I was baptized into a belief system that asserts that pieces of bread "t…
The trans movement is best understood as a whacked-out religion. They can think whatever they want, no matter how crazy, just as long as they don't try to force their views on others.
Every time I think how absolutely nuts these people are, I remind myself that I was baptized into a belief system that asserts that pieces of bread "transubstantiate" into human flesh and bad wine "transubstantiates" into human blood that we communally cannibalize during mass. Nobody in my entire parish thought that Holy Communion was the slightest bit crazy.
Human beings and delusional thinking just seem to go together like gin and tonic.
"just as long as they don't try to force their views on others."
.This is a joke, right? Forcing their views on others is the apotheosis of this "trans" fad. An educator who slips and uses the pronoun that a student used up to fifteen minutes ago can lose his (<—not gender-neutral) job for "misgendering" or "deadnaming" a student. An academic who researches the long term effects of puberty blockers or post-transition suicide and doesn't come straight to conclusions congruent with "gender ideology" is likely to have his university blasted with enraged emails and threats, and lose his job. Someone who doesn't pulverize English grammar and refers to a coworker in the plural can be escorted out of the building under guard.
Seriously, what the good Christ are you talking about?
The "trans" activists make the MAGA crowd look cripplingly openminded. Someone who is 99% supportive is as much an enemy as someone advocating putting "trans" people on boxcars.
The truly Bizarro World part is how correct the MAGAs are fighting the trans cult too. Granted, cults don't like competition, and they should certainly be addressing their own cult problem. But they're right, if for twisted and sometimes the wrong reasons...and I'd rather people do the right thing for the wrong reasons than vice versa, or the wrong things for the wrong reasons.
Calm down Chris! I never said they didn’t force their views. Just that it wouldn’t matter what they thought if they didn’t. Or in other words having crazy views at odds with reality is actually human default mode it seems.
Pretty much everything on the Loony Left is a whacked-out religion. John McWhorter wrote about the excesses of 'woke antiracism' comparing it to religion; Christina Hoff Summers writes similarly about the excesses feminism; the anti-colonialists are similarly obsessed with colonialism and ascribe it to everyting (a 'woke' friend of mine, with whom we are learning to talk to each other, recently accused me of 'colonialist' thinking because of pronouns.)
'Woke' itself, like all its various 'social (in)justice' movements, is a cult.
I just hate it when people try to patiently explain to me that "they" is perfectly fine when the gender of the reference is unknown, as if I had never heard that horseshit before. Problem is, most uses of the singular they have perfectly defined references:
"if your husband beats you then they should go to jail"
Even writing that gives me a little twinge of headache.
What my mother and aunt used to joke about 50 years ago were the mysterious 'they' trendsetters. "Negronis are what 'they' are drinking in Manhattan now," my aunt would (only my brother and I weren't native New Yorkers). "Who are these 'they'?" my mom would ask with a smile. And they'd have some fun with the unidentified 'they' who were supposedly so much cooler, but no one knew who 'they' were:)
I remember when it began to annoy me, people would talk about government protections from frauds and dangers, "They wouldn't let that happen, would they?"
Who is "they" here?, I would ask. Blank look. "You know, uh, ..."
I learned Russian when I was 13 and I remember drawing a little grid, two columns, singular and plural, three rows, 1st, 2nd, 3rd person. I did the same later for Spanish, German, Italian, etc. Doesn't work in Asian languages like the one I speak here. English was missing one, taken by "y'all" in the south ... that's wrong, "you" is already formal/plural, it's "thou" that's missing, equivalent to ты, du, tu, tous ... the familiar/singular.
Then I noticed the "gender neutral" they. And immediately stopped using it, which didn't matter back then but now the generic "he" is regarded as putting women in leg irons.
The trans movement is best understood as a whacked-out religion. They can think whatever they want, no matter how crazy, just as long as they don't try to force their views on others.
Every time I think how absolutely nuts these people are, I remind myself that I was baptized into a belief system that asserts that pieces of bread "transubstantiate" into human flesh and bad wine "transubstantiates" into human blood that we communally cannibalize during mass. Nobody in my entire parish thought that Holy Communion was the slightest bit crazy.
Human beings and delusional thinking just seem to go together like gin and tonic.
Everybody say his own Kyrie Eleison...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvhYqeGp_Do
"just as long as they don't try to force their views on others."
.This is a joke, right? Forcing their views on others is the apotheosis of this "trans" fad. An educator who slips and uses the pronoun that a student used up to fifteen minutes ago can lose his (<—not gender-neutral) job for "misgendering" or "deadnaming" a student. An academic who researches the long term effects of puberty blockers or post-transition suicide and doesn't come straight to conclusions congruent with "gender ideology" is likely to have his university blasted with enraged emails and threats, and lose his job. Someone who doesn't pulverize English grammar and refers to a coworker in the plural can be escorted out of the building under guard.
Seriously, what the good Christ are you talking about?
The "trans" activists make the MAGA crowd look cripplingly openminded. Someone who is 99% supportive is as much an enemy as someone advocating putting "trans" people on boxcars.
The truly Bizarro World part is how correct the MAGAs are fighting the trans cult too. Granted, cults don't like competition, and they should certainly be addressing their own cult problem. But they're right, if for twisted and sometimes the wrong reasons...and I'd rather people do the right thing for the wrong reasons than vice versa, or the wrong things for the wrong reasons.
Calm down Chris! I never said they didn’t force their views. Just that it wouldn’t matter what they thought if they didn’t. Or in other words having crazy views at odds with reality is actually human default mode it seems.
I'm good, I'm good (bites knuckle, breathes stertorously)
I was just kinda shocked at the idea that "live and let live" has anything to do with this grotesque movement.
(sorry, that does read kinda harsh)
Pretty much everything on the Loony Left is a whacked-out religion. John McWhorter wrote about the excesses of 'woke antiracism' comparing it to religion; Christina Hoff Summers writes similarly about the excesses feminism; the anti-colonialists are similarly obsessed with colonialism and ascribe it to everyting (a 'woke' friend of mine, with whom we are learning to talk to each other, recently accused me of 'colonialist' thinking because of pronouns.)
'Woke' itself, like all its various 'social (in)justice' movements, is a cult.
I just hate it when people try to patiently explain to me that "they" is perfectly fine when the gender of the reference is unknown, as if I had never heard that horseshit before. Problem is, most uses of the singular they have perfectly defined references:
"if your husband beats you then they should go to jail"
Even writing that gives me a little twinge of headache.
What my mother and aunt used to joke about 50 years ago were the mysterious 'they' trendsetters. "Negronis are what 'they' are drinking in Manhattan now," my aunt would (only my brother and I weren't native New Yorkers). "Who are these 'they'?" my mom would ask with a smile. And they'd have some fun with the unidentified 'they' who were supposedly so much cooler, but no one knew who 'they' were:)
I remember when it began to annoy me, people would talk about government protections from frauds and dangers, "They wouldn't let that happen, would they?"
Who is "they" here?, I would ask. Blank look. "You know, uh, ..."
I learned Russian when I was 13 and I remember drawing a little grid, two columns, singular and plural, three rows, 1st, 2nd, 3rd person. I did the same later for Spanish, German, Italian, etc. Doesn't work in Asian languages like the one I speak here. English was missing one, taken by "y'all" in the south ... that's wrong, "you" is already formal/plural, it's "thou" that's missing, equivalent to ты, du, tu, tous ... the familiar/singular.
Then I noticed the "gender neutral" they. And immediately stopped using it, which didn't matter back then but now the generic "he" is regarded as putting women in leg irons.