"Obnoxious, unreasonable behaviour tends to do that. And so, if we’re exposed to enough Moiras, it’s tempting to assume their behaviour represents the “trans community."
The Moiras do represent the "trans" community; they are however unlikely to be representative of it. Most of us have no in-person exposure to the "trans" community. Any…
"Obnoxious, unreasonable behaviour tends to do that. And so, if we’re exposed to enough Moiras, it’s tempting to assume their behaviour represents the “trans community."
The Moiras do represent the "trans" community; they are however unlikely to be representative of it. Most of us have no in-person exposure to the "trans" community. Any experience with them is likely to lead to efforts to avoid any more of it because they never talk about anything but their "gender identity" and they tend to be painfully self-absorbed.
But narcissism isn't combative rage, and the "trans" activists we read online or see in the media are almost all people of seething rage and combative belligerence. OK, not all "trans" people are like them, but they are the public face of the "trans" community.
Just as fundamentalist bigots have become the face of American Christianity and hate-crazed irrational people have become the face of conservatism.
That the corpus of these groups are not all like these horrid people is a mere footnote and of scholarly interest alone. I give you credit, Steve, for perennially observing this difference but your observation is not widely shared. Moreover, using the most extreme elements of The Other Side to represent the whole is a deeply established tactic, it works, and people are not about to stop using it.
A lot of Christians are decent and charitable people; most liberals are not outrage-spraying "woke" SJWs; some conservatives really do believe in sealed borders and small government.
It doesn't matter.
Because in every one of these cases it's the extremists who are running things. Minority though they may be. The ascendancy of the ugly minority is one of the sordid truths of these awful times.
"Obnoxious, unreasonable behaviour tends to do that. And so, if we’re exposed to enough Moiras, it’s tempting to assume their behaviour represents the “trans community."
The Moiras do represent the "trans" community; they are however unlikely to be representative of it. Most of us have no in-person exposure to the "trans" community. Any experience with them is likely to lead to efforts to avoid any more of it because they never talk about anything but their "gender identity" and they tend to be painfully self-absorbed.
But narcissism isn't combative rage, and the "trans" activists we read online or see in the media are almost all people of seething rage and combative belligerence. OK, not all "trans" people are like them, but they are the public face of the "trans" community.
Just as fundamentalist bigots have become the face of American Christianity and hate-crazed irrational people have become the face of conservatism.
That the corpus of these groups are not all like these horrid people is a mere footnote and of scholarly interest alone. I give you credit, Steve, for perennially observing this difference but your observation is not widely shared. Moreover, using the most extreme elements of The Other Side to represent the whole is a deeply established tactic, it works, and people are not about to stop using it.
A lot of Christians are decent and charitable people; most liberals are not outrage-spraying "woke" SJWs; some conservatives really do believe in sealed borders and small government.
It doesn't matter.
Because in every one of these cases it's the extremists who are running things. Minority though they may be. The ascendancy of the ugly minority is one of the sordid truths of these awful times.