Substack is unfortunately a young platform with many bugs, and it won’t let me comment on Roy’s joke about feminists, so my reply is below:
What is it with you guys and feminists? Women have been second-class citizens for the entire human journey. There were some extremes in the early days of Western feminism, but all movements suffered from those excesses, as political activists of all types tend to become fanatical. As I see it, the world is still in the early days of transitioning from the agrarian epoch, when women were supposed to be barefoot and pregnant. I get the fervor of historically disenfranchised classes, but trans people are not a class, other than a variety of mental illness. While we live in a world of scarcity and fear, these struggles will continue. In the Fifth Epoch, it will all vanish and nobody will miss it.
I have absolutely no objection to the idea of Women's Rights; what I'm concerned with and as I said I'm only beginning to "gel" it in my own mind, is Feminism's cooptation by certain agencies we can only speak of in a whisper, exemplified by such trains of thought as Cultural Marxism and Post-Modernism.
The joke was told me by a Radical Feminist BTW..😊 I included it because I thought it was funny. Context is everything I guess.. 🤔
"In the postmodernist view, biology, age, and sex are mere social constructs, so people can “identify” as giraffes if they want to, be whatever sex, race, ethnicity, and age that they want, and so on."
Actually, you cannot identify as whatever you want.
You can identify as the opposite sex or any weird non-binary category you can invent.
You can identify as an animal, with kids going to school dressed up as pets, jumping around making funny noises.
However...
You cannot identify as a different race. At least not around here. I can't say "I identify as a black person" and ask the government for money, consider myself a victim of racism, etc. Anything but not race. Strange. But then, feminism is not conspicuous for its logic.
Which died with my DNA test. I am not kidding, but my father thought that I was eligible for federal aid, and I even went to a meeting of indigenous students at my father's arrangement. That was before DNA testing. I think that if my grandparents had attested to Indian heritage, I would have been eligible for federal aid.
I still maintain what I have said earlier: you cannot identify as another race, not the same way you can identify as another sex. Because if you do, you will run into trouble, including from people supposedly on your crazy side.
If I have my facts straight, Rachel *pretended* to be black until people found out she was white, and then the sh*t hit the fan. If instead of pretending to be black, she'd said she felt like a man, some people would have thought "Oh, another infected one", but there would not have been a big controversy.
Hey if it's good enough for Elizabeth Warren or Kamala Harris, should be good enough for you! That said, "Black Pigeon Speaks' " presentation "The Transgender: Normalizing Mental Illness" from 2016 may be of interest to you: https://www.bitchute.com/video/hKQn8n0fZ4EL/
I'm coming to a perspective – still very much in flux and in need of my own mental clarification – that nonetheless for most people would be deeply unpalatable; part of that perspective is learning about the Cultural Marxist despoliation of Feminism. The extreme-left disintegration of The Democratic party, the Transgender depravity is part of the same syndrome. Jordan Peterson speaks at some length regarding the former in this presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLoG9zBvvLQ&t=266s, and the latter in conversation with Chloe Cole in this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O3MzPeomqs&t=602s. Imagine, if you can, a bitter old woman at the age of 18... 😱
The British Columbia man you speak of, Robert Hoogland, I was briefly in contact with, but after what he's been through I decided he might be better left in peace. He reported to me he now lives with his dog and has a $100,000 legal bill for his trouble (bet that's a familiar story for you 😥). You can contribute to his legal bill here: https://gogetfunding.com/bc-father-fighting-medical-transitioning-of-children/
Substack is unfortunately a young platform with many bugs, and it won’t let me comment on Roy’s joke about feminists, so my reply is below:
What is it with you guys and feminists? Women have been second-class citizens for the entire human journey. There were some extremes in the early days of Western feminism, but all movements suffered from those excesses, as political activists of all types tend to become fanatical. As I see it, the world is still in the early days of transitioning from the agrarian epoch, when women were supposed to be barefoot and pregnant. I get the fervor of historically disenfranchised classes, but trans people are not a class, other than a variety of mental illness. While we live in a world of scarcity and fear, these struggles will continue. In the Fifth Epoch, it will all vanish and nobody will miss it.
I have absolutely no objection to the idea of Women's Rights; what I'm concerned with and as I said I'm only beginning to "gel" it in my own mind, is Feminism's cooptation by certain agencies we can only speak of in a whisper, exemplified by such trains of thought as Cultural Marxism and Post-Modernism.
The joke was told me by a Radical Feminist BTW..😊 I included it because I thought it was funny. Context is everything I guess.. 🤔
A joke for Wade, just popped into mind,
Q: How many Radical Feminists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A: "... That's not funny ..."
"In the postmodernist view, biology, age, and sex are mere social constructs, so people can “identify” as giraffes if they want to, be whatever sex, race, ethnicity, and age that they want, and so on."
Actually, you cannot identify as whatever you want.
You can identify as the opposite sex or any weird non-binary category you can invent.
You can identify as an animal, with kids going to school dressed up as pets, jumping around making funny noises.
However...
You cannot identify as a different race. At least not around here. I can't say "I identify as a black person" and ask the government for money, consider myself a victim of racism, etc. Anything but not race. Strange. But then, feminism is not conspicuous for its logic.
Well, I live in a state where a "trans-black" woman rose to fame:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Dolezal
She even ran the local NAACP chapter.
So, maybe people cannot identify as a different race where you live, but they have here. :) Heck, I was raised with the idea that I was part Indian:
https://ahealedplanet.net/myth.htm
Which died with my DNA test. I am not kidding, but my father thought that I was eligible for federal aid, and I even went to a meeting of indigenous students at my father's arrangement. That was before DNA testing. I think that if my grandparents had attested to Indian heritage, I would have been eligible for federal aid.
Ah yes, I read about her some time ago.
I still maintain what I have said earlier: you cannot identify as another race, not the same way you can identify as another sex. Because if you do, you will run into trouble, including from people supposedly on your crazy side.
If I have my facts straight, Rachel *pretended* to be black until people found out she was white, and then the sh*t hit the fan. If instead of pretending to be black, she'd said she felt like a man, some people would have thought "Oh, another infected one", but there would not have been a big controversy.
I wrote: "In the postmodernist view," not your view or the view in your home nation.
Hey if it's good enough for Elizabeth Warren or Kamala Harris, should be good enough for you! That said, "Black Pigeon Speaks' " presentation "The Transgender: Normalizing Mental Illness" from 2016 may be of interest to you: https://www.bitchute.com/video/hKQn8n0fZ4EL/
I don't watch videos much, especially those without closed captions, half-deaf that I am.
That's frustrating, but I suspect you already have a good idea what BPS is talking about..
I'm coming to a perspective – still very much in flux and in need of my own mental clarification – that nonetheless for most people would be deeply unpalatable; part of that perspective is learning about the Cultural Marxist despoliation of Feminism. The extreme-left disintegration of The Democratic party, the Transgender depravity is part of the same syndrome. Jordan Peterson speaks at some length regarding the former in this presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLoG9zBvvLQ&t=266s, and the latter in conversation with Chloe Cole in this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O3MzPeomqs&t=602s. Imagine, if you can, a bitter old woman at the age of 18... 😱
The British Columbia man you speak of, Robert Hoogland, I was briefly in contact with, but after what he's been through I decided he might be better left in peace. He reported to me he now lives with his dog and has a $100,000 legal bill for his trouble (bet that's a familiar story for you 😥). You can contribute to his legal bill here: https://gogetfunding.com/bc-father-fighting-medical-transitioning-of-children/
When you get tangled up in the legal system, even when you "win," you lose. It takes only one court case like that to ruin a life.
"I was never ruined in my life but twice: Once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won one."
-- Voltaire