And Lo, An Enraged Male

It does, I think, belong to that genre of video in which a man feigns womanhood and demands his supposed “rights,” including access to women’s spaces, and then, when some hint of demurral is detected – say, a simple statement of fact printed on a sign – the pretence of womanhood evaporates and lots of male bellowing ensues.

Such are the wonders of our times.

Unwell women can get shirty too, of course.

The denial of observable reality will do that.

This.

Well, stated plainly, it seems kind of obvious. As Wesley Yang put it in the linked post,

No one has a duty to help anyone else to falsify their sex…

There is no way to force anyone to affirm anyone else’s gender identity without destroying another person’s right of free speech and free conscience. The claims of transgenderism are implacably opposed to the basic postulates of a liberal, pluralistic society in which everyone has a right to belief and a corollary right to unbelief that no one may legitimately infringe.

And yet a lot of progressives struggle with this – or perhaps more typically, ignore it entirely. I think that’s because progressives seem to assume that a moral position must affirm and defer to the cross-dressing party, as if that were somehow the very definition of a moral position. The question is quickly begged. As if it were simply a matter of who one should be seen liking. 

Progressive morality, or pseudo-morality, is generally quite tribal in this regard, very much driven by groups, by seeming, and by status-seeking, and often has little to do with who was actually doing what, or demanding what. Much more so, I’d suggest, than moral arguments from, say, conservatives. 

If, however, you pause to consider the realities of the situation – who is being imposed upon, who is making unreasonable or unworkable demands, second-order effects, who is lying, etc – then you may well arrive at a different conclusion.

Though you may not be thanked for it, of course.

sometimes l allow myself the notion its just street theatre and they know FULL WELL its all a ruse.

It does very often feel like a society-wide shit test.

[ Awaits flowers, chocolates, a pony. ]

Again, the degree to which the progressive project, its mindset, is premised on a kind of weird racial neurosis is not sufficiently remarked upon.

Bet he couldn’t believe his luck.

Heh. I can’t help wondering what’s passing through his mind as the televised tongue-bathing ensues. The woman doing the tonguing, by the way, is Hilary Cremin, whose areas of alleged expertise include “social justice,” “equity,” and “inner and outer peace.” 

And so, we have a chronic fabulist, a serial liar of the most ludicrous kind, one who invokes imaginary brain tumours and impossible accomplishments that would require time travel, emboldened by, among others, a wilfully credulous leftist woman, who herself is dishonest about what it is she’s enabling and participating in.

The words fraud and corruption come to mind.

And in turn, these practised liars, these enablers of flim-flam, will not only burn their own personal credibility, such as it is, but the reputations of their peers and of the institution for which they work. All because of their progressive compulsions, their weird racial hang-ups.

Specifically, a worldview in which people aren’t to be treated as individuals, but as avatars of supposedly downtrodden groups, to whom exemptions and special favours must be extended, indefinitely, regardless of fairness and the cost to credibility. Such that, an obviously incompetent chancer, a fantasist, has to be fawned over, publicly, and defended from any questioning, because he is black.