Good piece. I, too, believe that for most ‘trans’ allies, they think that being an ally is a no-cost virtue signal which keeps them in the vanguard of social change, or worth whatever cost they do see with ‘trans’ ideology to keep them safe from being cast out of their peer groups.
Well said ,Lucy. You really hit the nail on the head ,as always. As for Denton's ,they surely must be the most unscrupulousLaw firm ever and that's really saying something ,considering the behavior of some lawyers !! Thanks ,Lucy x
Great analysis Lucy. Here's another dynamic to consider:
There's a reason why transactivism is primarily a white people problem. A lot of white-skinned youth today have been taught that they are bad people based on their race category. White-skinned people aren't actually a race, nor are "whites" a sensible categorization of humans. They are a diverse people with many cultures and languages. What do they having common? Skin that is not actually even white colored. Trying them together in a group as if they are all similar is as inane as using the category called Asian. Both group labels contain humans that are far too diverse for any clear thinking person to accept as a defining category.
Yet that is exactly what schools and media in developed nations have taught our youth. School-aged children and young adults in college are taught that white people are a group of similar people, and "those people are bad because they have caused all of the problems in the world." Especially the subcategory called “old white men.” They're considered to be the worst of the worst. These youth obviously don't know much about history or they wouldn't fall for such blatant distortions of reality. If they knew the truth of contemporary slavery and understood that most slave owners were and are people of color, they wouldn't fall for the brainwashing they're receiving in schools that make them hate who the group they supposedly belong to.
The other crazy idea drilled into our kid's heads is that if you are NOT oppressed, you ARE the oppressor. Personal behavior and choices are irrelevant. If you are in a category called “White” (note the capitalization, which racists believe helps reinforce its validity), then you are automatically an oppressor. According to racists like Robin DiAngelo and MSNBC host Joy Reid, white-skinned people are oppressors even if they try not to be racist. Your category defines you.
Well, you obviously can't opt out of your race, but the brilliance of the ever expanding lgbTQIA2S+ group is that everyone can opt into it. The A now stands for three different types of people, one of which is an Ally. All you have to do is scream at or commit violence against people who still believe sex is real and viola! You are now part of the lgbTQIA2S+ group. You have magically become one with the oppressed. You have redeemed yourself. You are forgiven for being white. You have appeased your white guilt.
Hence, many young white-skinned people are very eager to prove they're an ALLY to trans people. They are so desperate to NOT be the oppressor, they happily take on the oppressed moniker. I call this “self-victimization.”
If you want to stop this dynamic of kids succumbing to silly ideas that make them want to chemically and surgically alter their bodies to mimic the opposite sex, you have to address the root problem. You have to understand the brainwashing that's occurring in our schools. Since even those young people smart enough to avoid risking their health by chopping off body parts are still eager to self-victimize as an Ally, you have to understand and help them to unlearn anti-white racism. The idea that someone skin color makes them bad and that if you're not oppressed, you are in the oppressor category is the root of all this craziness. We change it in the schools by teaching the truth. Ethnic categories don't make a person good or bad.
Yes this "oppressor or oppressed" is definitely a factor behind this. It's also very much a First World problem; if your main concern is how am I going to feed my children today, you haven't got the time to worry about what sex or gender you "feel like". I have been bemused by all the women I know who are still in heterosexual marriages, with children who came into being in the usual way who suddenly declare a newly discovered "queer identity".
None of the applied postmodernist theories stack up well against reality. They are all designed to be destructive and chaotic, with the never delivered promise that out of the mess they create, some new and perfect thing will arise. Like every other cult that has ever been.
THANK YOU for this! I have had the same experience with a (former) long time friend of over 35 years who did the same when I posted gender critical comments and memes to FB (which I continue to do).
He was the first of two. I took the initiative to block/unfriend the second person, a 'friend' from my high school days (for context I'm now 58). Neither of these people are 'stupid' except that, as you've said, they obviously are. I've resisted the urge to label them stupid in light of my knowledge of them. The first does not possess a good formal education (as evidenced by his writing skills, which are for shit) but he's anything but unintelligent. The second *is* well educated and is also a successful international entrepreneur.
However, when it comes to this subject, both are completely imbecilic; dare I say gleefully and willfully eager to deny reality and the obvious, and intransigent and intensely vitriolic when it comes to even mild debate on the subject. Their, and my, only recourse was to rip assunder decades of friendship because I refused to chant the mantra of 'trans women *are* women', and I refused to 'get over it'. I tried hard, over a period of years, to provide proofs, evidence, research, real-world examples of harms, and etc., to no avail and much to my dismay.
They were unreachable, and I admit that I'm both bitter and angry about their insistence in the belief that men can get pregnant and that all who dare to question that assertion are (and I quote), transphobes, ultra-conservatives, hateful, assholes, ignorant, traitors, and homophobes.
What other conclusion can I draw but to consider them 'stupid' in the truest sense of the word?
As another friend once said, "I preferred the world before the internet when we only assumed that we were surrounded by legions of mouthbreathers, and knuckle-dragging, total idiots; as opposed to now, where we have a 24/7 and 365 live-stream of incontrovertible proof!" A pox on all their houses and may the Devil take them all.
I stand, unrepentantly, with women and girls, for biologiacal reality, and with the likes of Rowling, Stock, Joyce, Gaines, Bindel, Keene, Dawkins, Murray, Menno, and all others against this sexist, misogynistic, autogynophilic, BS - and will, even if it costs me every 'stupid' friend that I have. I'm tired of the complicity of the silent, and the idiocy of the cowardly. Let them block and unfriend me in droves. I care not. I stand with women against this Trans nonsense and gendre-woo, and will not flag in my support of every single one of you!
I hear you. There are definitely people who have decided trans is the hill they want to virtue signal and die on, and who get angry at anyone who challenges their beliefs. I don't think there is much chance of shifting their views unless they decide to listen/ reconsider.
But most people haven't thought through the implications of trans ideology. Ultimately, non- confrontational discussion and finding the way to make the issue matter to them has worked for me. But I'm in a workplace which is 'captured'. And cynically, I think all flavours of politicians would rather have people squabbling over 'what's a woman?' than addressing inequality, homelessness, degradation of social services etc
This satisfies a lot of my desperation to comprehend the HOW in the heck our society is in this moment???? It’s hell on earth. Interesting I have never heard of that law firm and perhaps that is their intention. Low profile. Thank you.
Happy TERFmas to me in reading this excellent piece. Thanks “Lucy”.
And the same to you and all Lucy's fans! Let's hope that in another year, we can look back and have something to celebrate!
toasting a boozy eggnog to that!
Good piece. I, too, believe that for most ‘trans’ allies, they think that being an ally is a no-cost virtue signal which keeps them in the vanguard of social change, or worth whatever cost they do see with ‘trans’ ideology to keep them safe from being cast out of their peer groups.
Well said ,Lucy. You really hit the nail on the head ,as always. As for Denton's ,they surely must be the most unscrupulousLaw firm ever and that's really saying something ,considering the behavior of some lawyers !! Thanks ,Lucy x
All spot on as usual Lucy. Thank for this - and merry Christmas!
Great analysis Lucy. Here's another dynamic to consider:
There's a reason why transactivism is primarily a white people problem. A lot of white-skinned youth today have been taught that they are bad people based on their race category. White-skinned people aren't actually a race, nor are "whites" a sensible categorization of humans. They are a diverse people with many cultures and languages. What do they having common? Skin that is not actually even white colored. Trying them together in a group as if they are all similar is as inane as using the category called Asian. Both group labels contain humans that are far too diverse for any clear thinking person to accept as a defining category.
Yet that is exactly what schools and media in developed nations have taught our youth. School-aged children and young adults in college are taught that white people are a group of similar people, and "those people are bad because they have caused all of the problems in the world." Especially the subcategory called “old white men.” They're considered to be the worst of the worst. These youth obviously don't know much about history or they wouldn't fall for such blatant distortions of reality. If they knew the truth of contemporary slavery and understood that most slave owners were and are people of color, they wouldn't fall for the brainwashing they're receiving in schools that make them hate who the group they supposedly belong to.
The other crazy idea drilled into our kid's heads is that if you are NOT oppressed, you ARE the oppressor. Personal behavior and choices are irrelevant. If you are in a category called “White” (note the capitalization, which racists believe helps reinforce its validity), then you are automatically an oppressor. According to racists like Robin DiAngelo and MSNBC host Joy Reid, white-skinned people are oppressors even if they try not to be racist. Your category defines you.
Well, you obviously can't opt out of your race, but the brilliance of the ever expanding lgbTQIA2S+ group is that everyone can opt into it. The A now stands for three different types of people, one of which is an Ally. All you have to do is scream at or commit violence against people who still believe sex is real and viola! You are now part of the lgbTQIA2S+ group. You have magically become one with the oppressed. You have redeemed yourself. You are forgiven for being white. You have appeased your white guilt.
Hence, many young white-skinned people are very eager to prove they're an ALLY to trans people. They are so desperate to NOT be the oppressor, they happily take on the oppressed moniker. I call this “self-victimization.”
If you want to stop this dynamic of kids succumbing to silly ideas that make them want to chemically and surgically alter their bodies to mimic the opposite sex, you have to address the root problem. You have to understand the brainwashing that's occurring in our schools. Since even those young people smart enough to avoid risking their health by chopping off body parts are still eager to self-victimize as an Ally, you have to understand and help them to unlearn anti-white racism. The idea that someone skin color makes them bad and that if you're not oppressed, you are in the oppressor category is the root of all this craziness. We change it in the schools by teaching the truth. Ethnic categories don't make a person good or bad.
Yes this "oppressor or oppressed" is definitely a factor behind this. It's also very much a First World problem; if your main concern is how am I going to feed my children today, you haven't got the time to worry about what sex or gender you "feel like". I have been bemused by all the women I know who are still in heterosexual marriages, with children who came into being in the usual way who suddenly declare a newly discovered "queer identity".
None of the applied postmodernist theories stack up well against reality. They are all designed to be destructive and chaotic, with the never delivered promise that out of the mess they create, some new and perfect thing will arise. Like every other cult that has ever been.
THANK YOU for this! I have had the same experience with a (former) long time friend of over 35 years who did the same when I posted gender critical comments and memes to FB (which I continue to do).
He was the first of two. I took the initiative to block/unfriend the second person, a 'friend' from my high school days (for context I'm now 58). Neither of these people are 'stupid' except that, as you've said, they obviously are. I've resisted the urge to label them stupid in light of my knowledge of them. The first does not possess a good formal education (as evidenced by his writing skills, which are for shit) but he's anything but unintelligent. The second *is* well educated and is also a successful international entrepreneur.
However, when it comes to this subject, both are completely imbecilic; dare I say gleefully and willfully eager to deny reality and the obvious, and intransigent and intensely vitriolic when it comes to even mild debate on the subject. Their, and my, only recourse was to rip assunder decades of friendship because I refused to chant the mantra of 'trans women *are* women', and I refused to 'get over it'. I tried hard, over a period of years, to provide proofs, evidence, research, real-world examples of harms, and etc., to no avail and much to my dismay.
They were unreachable, and I admit that I'm both bitter and angry about their insistence in the belief that men can get pregnant and that all who dare to question that assertion are (and I quote), transphobes, ultra-conservatives, hateful, assholes, ignorant, traitors, and homophobes.
What other conclusion can I draw but to consider them 'stupid' in the truest sense of the word?
As another friend once said, "I preferred the world before the internet when we only assumed that we were surrounded by legions of mouthbreathers, and knuckle-dragging, total idiots; as opposed to now, where we have a 24/7 and 365 live-stream of incontrovertible proof!" A pox on all their houses and may the Devil take them all.
I stand, unrepentantly, with women and girls, for biologiacal reality, and with the likes of Rowling, Stock, Joyce, Gaines, Bindel, Keene, Dawkins, Murray, Menno, and all others against this sexist, misogynistic, autogynophilic, BS - and will, even if it costs me every 'stupid' friend that I have. I'm tired of the complicity of the silent, and the idiocy of the cowardly. Let them block and unfriend me in droves. I care not. I stand with women against this Trans nonsense and gendre-woo, and will not flag in my support of every single one of you!
I have been so disappointed in many women who I regarded as reasonably intelligent who go along with all this crap. Your support is appreciated.
“I am tired of the complicity of the silent,” Me too. Thank you.
I hear you. There are definitely people who have decided trans is the hill they want to virtue signal and die on, and who get angry at anyone who challenges their beliefs. I don't think there is much chance of shifting their views unless they decide to listen/ reconsider.
But most people haven't thought through the implications of trans ideology. Ultimately, non- confrontational discussion and finding the way to make the issue matter to them has worked for me. But I'm in a workplace which is 'captured'. And cynically, I think all flavours of politicians would rather have people squabbling over 'what's a woman?' than addressing inequality, homelessness, degradation of social services etc
Yes, trans is a great blood and circuses diversion from real problems.
As excellent as always
This is so disturbing! The trans agenda is evil and the trans ideologues know it, which is why they sneaked it in with secrecy !
Normal people need to fight this !
"Climbing over the bodies of others to reach some unspecified end goal of self-importance is, at the very least, a moral crime."
Well said.
This satisfies a lot of my desperation to comprehend the HOW in the heck our society is in this moment???? It’s hell on earth. Interesting I have never heard of that law firm and perhaps that is their intention. Low profile. Thank you.