Well done, and bravely. It's tempting right now to jump on the feminist bandwagon, but really, it is partially responsible for where we are today, which Jenny explores in a very balanced manner. As someone who has often said to her daughters, "Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good", I have to admit that sometimes the good is simply not good enough. It is time to say no, and mean it.
The Iranian government gives tranny surgeries to gay men. Is that social liberalism from the sixties? This is a country where women get beaten to death on the street for not wearing tablecloths on their heads.
This is a medical industry scandal. Not "liberalism."
Are you mad? Because a psychotic, brutal, authoritarian theocracy thinks chopping off genitals is an acceptable alternative to execution (still the punishment for sodomy in Iran) - that makes them "social liberals"??? Read more about Iran and their SRS; you clearly have no idea what you're talking about.
As for the rest of the world, the self-proclaimed "liberals" are the ones jamming this down the throats of every college, school, corporation, professional group, government entity and even non-profits (girl/boy scouts, and... heard of Fran at the MS society?) They do this under threat of personal destruction of anyone who gets in their way. This is, indeed, ALSO a medical industry scandal, but it's FAR FAR FAR more than that.
Now, just to be EXTRA clear - I'm not arguing in favor of SRS, or that it truly makes men into women. Quite the reverse. But you seem to be having trouble following, so I'm just clarifying. I'm arguing that the Western self-described "liberals", "progressives", etc are jamming the trans agenda down our throats, to the detriment of almost everyone - gay people, all children, people suffering from gender dysphoria, many many others. No, Iran trying to erase gay people by mutilating their genitals is not "liberal". (And ps - neither is threatening, silencing, harassing, attacking anyone who disagrees with the trans agenda - yet that is exactly what "liberals" are doing every day.)
Oh I see, you're one of those. lolol. Let me educate you.
SRS: Sex Reassignment Surgery. It's a "thing". It's what they do in Iran. The clear and stated purpose is to purge homosexuality from Iran. (Which is punishable by death.) (Guess what - that's a similar concern many western gay people have, as well...)
And if this is what is happening in Iran, IT'S NOT FROM LIBERALISM. That's the most backwards culture on the planet. They do it there. So it's nothing but sheer hatred of women and hatred of homosexuals.
Yes, it is liberalism. It's liberals who conceived of, promote, and celebrate transgenderism, and are attempting to force it on society. They are completely responsible for the trans disaster we're living through.
Lol "liberals" I think you're looking for another word, genius.
Bruce Jenner and his weave ran as a governor candidate in California. He regularly goes on Fox News. Is he a "liberal"?
How many Republican governors vetoed legislation to prevent "gender" medication of minors and prevention of men in women's sports? Do you want all the examples?
The overwhelming majority of people who agree that men can get pregnant or women can have penises identify as liberal or left of center. The overwhelming majority of people who disagree with those claims identify as conservative or right of center. There may be outliers or exceptions either way, but they're rare. Caitlyn (or if you insist Bruce) Jenner is indeed a Republican. He has also, if I remember correctly, publicly admitted that transwomen aren't really women, claimed they shouldn't be eligible to compete in women's sports, and has been disavowed by trans activists as a heretic.
If Bruce Jenner KNOWS he's a man, then how can he FEEL like he's a woman? If he knows this, what is the point of anything he does?
Imagine this with any other mental illness. What if a schizophrenic said "I KNOW I'm not really Napoleon, but I'm still going to dress up like Napoleon and demand you call me the Emperor of France. But don't worry, I'm not like the other schizophrenics who actually mean what they say! That would be crazy!"
WHAT IS THE POINT OF ANYTHING BRUCE JENNER DOES THEN? He KNOWS he's a man and men shouldn't play women's sports, then he should get a haircut and stop with his stupid behavior. He's worse than the other trannies because he's inconsistent. At least the other assholes are consistent! They literally say they're actually women, and so of course they would play women's sports! What else would they do if they're trying to force others to lie?
Nothing you say makes sense. There's no such thing as a "transwomen" because there's no such thing as "trans." THEY'RE MEN. And if an idiot like Bruce knows it, then he should shut up.
So, when Bruce runs as a Republican, goes on Fox News, and Republican governors routinely veto legislation against this bullshit, THEN NO. It's not liberalism.
You don't know what's going on. Stop talking because it's annoying when ignorant people speak like this. Stop making a fool of yourself.
The majority of normal people know this is bullshit. The terms "liberal" and "conservative" or "left" and "right" don't even mean anything real in this clown world anymore.
Btw you obviously haven't run into idiotic libertarian trannies who think they're the cool conservative trannies, unlike the "woke" liberal trannies. They're the real ones! These are the most worthless, imbecilic males on the planet, and they claim they're not liberal. Sheer male stupidity.
The billionaire families behind this making tons of money from investing in pharma and medical companies are doing it because of MaRxIsM? The Pritzkers, Martin Rothblatt, Jon Stryker, Jacobs, do you want me to go on? Same with the media aspect, the rich media moguls from Marc Benioff to David Zaslav to Sam Levinson, make money off this due to their MaRxIsT beliefs.
That's what Marxists do? Invest in private companies to make billions? Really?
Please read Jennifer Bilek's work and stop with the stupid boomer takes.
It is a medical scandal, but I think it is also a parasitic ideology. Liberalism is what we have in the West, and thus liberalism is what it's latched onto here, and that's what we have to deal with.
Sorry, I was obviously clumsy in my wording. I agree with you - liberalism isn't the cause, any more than birds are the cause of bird flu.
What I was trying to say is that genderwoo is like a virus. In the West it's infected liberalism, which seems to have not much in the way of defence mechanisms against parasitic ideologies - remember when the "boy love" brigade almost managed to get themselves into the tent?
Going after the origins of the virus would be nice, but the host would remain infected. I'm not sure how we fix that.
Thomas Carlyle famously said that “No Lie Can Live Forever”…hence the insane mental and cultural gymnastics required to support such a monstrous falsehood.
this movement will end sooner than later. it’s already crumbling. I predict in 5-10 years it might be difficult to find anyone who will admit to cheerleading fast tracked sex changes for children.
as for predicting the future? I have no clue. it’s obvious we are in some stage of, at least, cultural decline, if not civilizational decline.
but to my original point, a society cannot live by lies forever. the Soviet Union is a perfect example. after the Russian Revolution didn’t produce the socialist utopia they aimed for, they had to construct an entire society built around lying. in all aspects of life. it was brutal, but it eventually collapsed in on itself. this is why I say that the drag shows and sex changes for kiddies movement can’t last forever. because it’s all based on monstrous lies. at some point it will crumble...
Hit a number of points I'm in strong agreement with. Like many I've started to question some of the socially liberal sentiments that I grew up with.
People seem to have forgotten that culture might actually serve a purpose rather than being just some liberal play-space for people to actualise their desires onto the world. The trouble with the whole 'you-do-you' is that while it offers a model of pluralistic understanding broadly speaking, its actually currently hiding the corruption of philosophical relativism, and it's underlying nihilism.
You knocked this one out of the park Jenny! Thank you for saying the quiet part out loud——AGP men are exercising their sexual fetish in front of us instead of in their bedrooms. When did that become ok?
For sure a big money source is the Pritzker fortune. They’ve poured money into schools to indoctrinate children. I believe the Pritzker family also chose/promoted young Barack Obama into Chicago politics. Who then made insurance companies pay for sex change operations and allowed people to use any bathroom they wanted. Very convenient.
In their never-ending desire to appear virtuous, liberals and leftists constantly ask/demand that everyone else believe and affirm their delusions. And then censor you if you disagree. Every stance of theirs requires that you don’t believe objectively true things. Like a man can’t become a woman.
Alice thanks for this additional info. I looked up Pritzker and found Tawani Foundation, started and run by Jennifer neé James Pritzker. Just like always, follow the money. Depressing.
“Much like I’ve never heard liberals offer a humble apology to the conservatives and religious folks who they demeaned and made fun of for years, I have yet to hear the anti-trans feminists address how feminism has harmed women, or that boys and men are also terribly harmed by trans ideology. I’ve never heard them say that what’s bad for men is bad for women, because men and women are two sides of the same coin.”
Watching Julia Malott’s video literally made my stomach hurt. I think it’s because Julia’s attitude about breast feeding seems so exceedingly disrespectful to the beautiful and mysterious workings of the human body. Whether you believe in God or not, the human body is truly miraculous. Just look at the way all of our body’s organs fit together so nicely and work together so harmoniously. And look at the way our immune system heals infections and destroys invaders while we’re watching football games, typing at our computers, or taking our dog for a walk. Look at the way our bodies know how to breathe and how to maintain an internal temperature, even when the temperature outside our bodies varies greatly; and look at the way our digestive system knows how to dissolve all those bits of food we put into our mouths; the way our bodies know how to separate all the helpful stuff (e.g., the proteins and the vitamins and the minerals) from all the unhelpful stuff; and then—wonder of wonders—look at how the human body excretes what is unneeded so efficiently. And then look at the miraculous way each brand-new human being is formed and how the biological female body knows how to grow the body of a little person inside a womb and then feed that little person with milk it generates all on its own once the individual is outside the womb. Our bodies are an incredible Living System containing a zillion, zillion little parts, all working together as one united whole, much like Planet Earth and its gigantic system of interconnected ecosystems. But when we begin to tamper with the Living System that is the human body, or with the interconnected ecosystems of our entire planet, it is nothing but an act of human hubris to think that such tampering won’t eventually cause great harm to us all. I can only hope that humanity wakes up before all of the many “Towers of Babel” we are currently building come tumbling down. And they will come tumbling down. Our human minds are simply too small and limited to understand the complexities of life, not only within our own human bodies but also within the planetary ecosystems of Earth…, which is why I pray with all my heart this day, God help us.
Thank you, Jenny, for this most important (though very disturbing) essay today.
Due to a hysterectomy at 30 .I as a woman with two adopted children with the right chromosomes and real breasts with real nipples. could NOT breastfeed since I had not givrn birth. As I understand it, the two go together. . I made no attempt to do so or my son would have gone hungry so I went the bottle route and we both were happy.
I knew changes would come as the candles on my cake grew more numerous each year, but I have to admit that I NEVER in a million years thought I would ever be confronted with the situation of men thinking they can do which I, as a woman, could not.
That’s the whole point for them - that’s what gets them off, honestly. They say it over and over, trannies are better women than women. They want to compete in women’s sports, they want to have performative periods, etc. But never forget that underneath, it’s a domination and suppression game, played by men against women (no surprise there.)
I appreciate your point of view. I do want to make a few comments about feminism. There are about as many definitions of feminism as there are people using the word. My grandmother always told me that she couldn’t leave my alcoholic and verbally abusive grandfather because she didn’t feel she could go back to her parents with 2 little kids to support. She always told me to never be financially dependent on a man. One of my great-grandmothers raised 8 kids alone during the depression after her husband died. She took in laundry because women didn’t have other job options in those days. Another great-grandmother was left alone with a one year old baby after her husband just left. No one made him pay child support in those days. So has feminism really made things worse for women? I am eternally grateful not to be in their shoes, to have been born in a time where I’m able to have an education and career and support myself, to have equal power in a relationship and the protection of the law, to be able to make my own choices in life. So yes, feminism has made my life better than my female ancestors had it. Is it perfect? No, far from it. But I will take it over the alternative.
This doesn’t mean that I think that men are evil (I’ve been married for 23 years to one who I quite like), or that I’m an eternal victim (although there are a few things I find unfair). I don’t think men and women are identical. I don’t want special treatment for being female, other than acknowledging that certain things are physically different (clearly I need different medical care than males, and I could never compete against them in sports as my body has evolved for a different purpose than theirs).
I acknowledge that there are some schools of feminist thought that are harmful to our society, but I don’t think we want to throw all of feminism out with the bath water. Surely it’s a good thing that none of us today face the challenges my grandmothers and great-grandmothers did.
• To me, Feminism went off the rails when they tried to separate Freedom from Responsibility. Without Responsibility, Freedom quickly descends into License.
• Am I the only one who wonders whether all of the tortures inflicted on our language by the liberals - whichever side they're on - are due to to academic navel-watching?
Yes! Some women who got their freedoms went off the rails. I've had this argument with some women about abusive relationships. I believe in trying to help women in an abusive relationship, to a point. At that point she must take responsibility for herself, but often she infantilizes herself and sometimes gets herself and/or law enforcement killed when she keeps returning and calling to be rescued. People who stay in such relationships are getting something out of it, whether it's sex, financial security, avoiding change, etc. We (women) are either fully functioning adults or we're toddlers. Adults need to be responsible for their own choices.
Some women and some men seem to get stuck on a treadmill in an abusive relationship, but I don't believe it's "most" of either sex. Sex fantasy is just fantasy, whether Fifty Shades, a Harlequin Romance novel, or Playboy. Most can discern the difference between fantasy sex and reality.
Fantasy expresses real underlying desires. People may be intelligent enough to recognize that the desires aren't practical or at least constrained by the conflicting desire to be socially respectable, but the desires are still there.
We will have to disagree. Using fantasy is different than desire. Humans sometimes use fantasy as a distraction, or to spice up what you really desire. Desire and fantasy can cross boundaries, but fantasy doesn't inherently express a desire.
Biblical morality, so often dismissively sneered at, would go a long way toward solving problems before they start. God's creation of humanity is described in Genesis 1:27, "In the image of God he created them; male and female he created them."
Well done, and bravely. It's tempting right now to jump on the feminist bandwagon, but really, it is partially responsible for where we are today, which Jenny explores in a very balanced manner. As someone who has often said to her daughters, "Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good", I have to admit that sometimes the good is simply not good enough. It is time to say no, and mean it.
That is SUCH an important insight.
This is a bunch of nonsense.
The Iranian government gives tranny surgeries to gay men. Is that social liberalism from the sixties? This is a country where women get beaten to death on the street for not wearing tablecloths on their heads.
This is a medical industry scandal. Not "liberalism."
Are you mad? Because a psychotic, brutal, authoritarian theocracy thinks chopping off genitals is an acceptable alternative to execution (still the punishment for sodomy in Iran) - that makes them "social liberals"??? Read more about Iran and their SRS; you clearly have no idea what you're talking about.
As for the rest of the world, the self-proclaimed "liberals" are the ones jamming this down the throats of every college, school, corporation, professional group, government entity and even non-profits (girl/boy scouts, and... heard of Fran at the MS society?) They do this under threat of personal destruction of anyone who gets in their way. This is, indeed, ALSO a medical industry scandal, but it's FAR FAR FAR more than that.
You don't know what you're talking about. There's no such thing as "SRS."
Just be quiet.
Now, just to be EXTRA clear - I'm not arguing in favor of SRS, or that it truly makes men into women. Quite the reverse. But you seem to be having trouble following, so I'm just clarifying. I'm arguing that the Western self-described "liberals", "progressives", etc are jamming the trans agenda down our throats, to the detriment of almost everyone - gay people, all children, people suffering from gender dysphoria, many many others. No, Iran trying to erase gay people by mutilating their genitals is not "liberal". (And ps - neither is threatening, silencing, harassing, attacking anyone who disagrees with the trans agenda - yet that is exactly what "liberals" are doing every day.)
Oh I see, you're one of those. lolol. Let me educate you.
SRS: Sex Reassignment Surgery. It's a "thing". It's what they do in Iran. The clear and stated purpose is to purge homosexuality from Iran. (Which is punishable by death.) (Guess what - that's a similar concern many western gay people have, as well...)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9745420/
https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2019/04/04/why-iran-is-a-hub-for-sex-reassignment-surgery
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29832690
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/jmiddeastwomstud.10.2.31
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/homosexuals-in-iran-having-sex-reassignment-surgery-to-avoid-execution-619968
Sex cannot be reassigned. It's mutilation.
And if this is what is happening in Iran, IT'S NOT FROM LIBERALISM. That's the most backwards culture on the planet. They do it there. So it's nothing but sheer hatred of women and hatred of homosexuals.
Thanks for proving my point.
Yes, it is liberalism. It's liberals who conceived of, promote, and celebrate transgenderism, and are attempting to force it on society. They are completely responsible for the trans disaster we're living through.
Lol "liberals" I think you're looking for another word, genius.
Bruce Jenner and his weave ran as a governor candidate in California. He regularly goes on Fox News. Is he a "liberal"?
How many Republican governors vetoed legislation to prevent "gender" medication of minors and prevention of men in women's sports? Do you want all the examples?
You don't understand what's happening. Stop it.
The overwhelming majority of people who agree that men can get pregnant or women can have penises identify as liberal or left of center. The overwhelming majority of people who disagree with those claims identify as conservative or right of center. There may be outliers or exceptions either way, but they're rare. Caitlyn (or if you insist Bruce) Jenner is indeed a Republican. He has also, if I remember correctly, publicly admitted that transwomen aren't really women, claimed they shouldn't be eligible to compete in women's sports, and has been disavowed by trans activists as a heretic.
Bruce is also a total publicity hound still trying to relive his glory days from the 70s.
If Bruce Jenner KNOWS he's a man, then how can he FEEL like he's a woman? If he knows this, what is the point of anything he does?
Imagine this with any other mental illness. What if a schizophrenic said "I KNOW I'm not really Napoleon, but I'm still going to dress up like Napoleon and demand you call me the Emperor of France. But don't worry, I'm not like the other schizophrenics who actually mean what they say! That would be crazy!"
WHAT IS THE POINT OF ANYTHING BRUCE JENNER DOES THEN? He KNOWS he's a man and men shouldn't play women's sports, then he should get a haircut and stop with his stupid behavior. He's worse than the other trannies because he's inconsistent. At least the other assholes are consistent! They literally say they're actually women, and so of course they would play women's sports! What else would they do if they're trying to force others to lie?
Nothing you say makes sense. There's no such thing as a "transwomen" because there's no such thing as "trans." THEY'RE MEN. And if an idiot like Bruce knows it, then he should shut up.
So, when Bruce runs as a Republican, goes on Fox News, and Republican governors routinely veto legislation against this bullshit, THEN NO. It's not liberalism.
You don't know what's going on. Stop talking because it's annoying when ignorant people speak like this. Stop making a fool of yourself.
The majority of normal people know this is bullshit. The terms "liberal" and "conservative" or "left" and "right" don't even mean anything real in this clown world anymore.
Btw you obviously haven't run into idiotic libertarian trannies who think they're the cool conservative trannies, unlike the "woke" liberal trannies. They're the real ones! These are the most worthless, imbecilic males on the planet, and they claim they're not liberal. Sheer male stupidity.
It’s Marxism
Really?
The billionaire families behind this making tons of money from investing in pharma and medical companies are doing it because of MaRxIsM? The Pritzkers, Martin Rothblatt, Jon Stryker, Jacobs, do you want me to go on? Same with the media aspect, the rich media moguls from Marc Benioff to David Zaslav to Sam Levinson, make money off this due to their MaRxIsT beliefs.
That's what Marxists do? Invest in private companies to make billions? Really?
Please read Jennifer Bilek's work and stop with the stupid boomer takes.
It is a medical scandal, but I think it is also a parasitic ideology. Liberalism is what we have in the West, and thus liberalism is what it's latched onto here, and that's what we have to deal with.
In Iran the story is different.
How did it happen in Iran if "liberalism" is the cause of it?
You couldn't even define "liberalism" if you wanted to.
Well what is it Kat, all you're telling people to do is shut up without offering any insight yourself.
Sorry, I was obviously clumsy in my wording. I agree with you - liberalism isn't the cause, any more than birds are the cause of bird flu.
What I was trying to say is that genderwoo is like a virus. In the West it's infected liberalism, which seems to have not much in the way of defence mechanisms against parasitic ideologies - remember when the "boy love" brigade almost managed to get themselves into the tent?
Going after the origins of the virus would be nice, but the host would remain infected. I'm not sure how we fix that.
10 out of 10 babies prefer female boobs!
Jenny Holland nails it here. ("Chest discharge" reminds me of a wound or a pimple - anyone else?)
Because that’s exactly what it is. Maybe worse.
Oof, you're right.
Yeah, me too. Yuck.
Thomas Carlyle famously said that “No Lie Can Live Forever”…hence the insane mental and cultural gymnastics required to support such a monstrous falsehood.
this movement will end sooner than later. it’s already crumbling. I predict in 5-10 years it might be difficult to find anyone who will admit to cheerleading fast tracked sex changes for children.
And then, 15 years hence, what is left?
We’ve only been locked down in benumbing oblivion four years,
irreparably invaded from Mordor on both continents for 10 years,
surrendered our natural and civil rights without a peep 20 years ago.
What do you see in another decade or two ?
dark times I agree.
as for predicting the future? I have no clue. it’s obvious we are in some stage of, at least, cultural decline, if not civilizational decline.
but to my original point, a society cannot live by lies forever. the Soviet Union is a perfect example. after the Russian Revolution didn’t produce the socialist utopia they aimed for, they had to construct an entire society built around lying. in all aspects of life. it was brutal, but it eventually collapsed in on itself. this is why I say that the drag shows and sex changes for kiddies movement can’t last forever. because it’s all based on monstrous lies. at some point it will crumble...
I pray you are correct.
Hit a number of points I'm in strong agreement with. Like many I've started to question some of the socially liberal sentiments that I grew up with.
People seem to have forgotten that culture might actually serve a purpose rather than being just some liberal play-space for people to actualise their desires onto the world. The trouble with the whole 'you-do-you' is that while it offers a model of pluralistic understanding broadly speaking, its actually currently hiding the corruption of philosophical relativism, and it's underlying nihilism.
You knocked this one out of the park Jenny! Thank you for saying the quiet part out loud——AGP men are exercising their sexual fetish in front of us instead of in their bedrooms. When did that become ok?
For sure a big money source is the Pritzker fortune. They’ve poured money into schools to indoctrinate children. I believe the Pritzker family also chose/promoted young Barack Obama into Chicago politics. Who then made insurance companies pay for sex change operations and allowed people to use any bathroom they wanted. Very convenient.
In their never-ending desire to appear virtuous, liberals and leftists constantly ask/demand that everyone else believe and affirm their delusions. And then censor you if you disagree. Every stance of theirs requires that you don’t believe objectively true things. Like a man can’t become a woman.
Alice thanks for this additional info. I looked up Pritzker and found Tawani Foundation, started and run by Jennifer neé James Pritzker. Just like always, follow the money. Depressing.
Jennifer Bilek’s work on this is invaluable.
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/billionaire-family-pushing-synthetic-sex-identities-ssi-pritzkers
Speechless. I hadn’t realized that things have gone so far.
“Much like I’ve never heard liberals offer a humble apology to the conservatives and religious folks who they demeaned and made fun of for years, I have yet to hear the anti-trans feminists address how feminism has harmed women, or that boys and men are also terribly harmed by trans ideology. I’ve never heard them say that what’s bad for men is bad for women, because men and women are two sides of the same coin.”
AMEN!!!! Perfectly stated.
At least three thumbs up for this article.
Completely agree with this. There is no middle ground. This evil cannot be given an inch.
Watching Julia Malott’s video literally made my stomach hurt. I think it’s because Julia’s attitude about breast feeding seems so exceedingly disrespectful to the beautiful and mysterious workings of the human body. Whether you believe in God or not, the human body is truly miraculous. Just look at the way all of our body’s organs fit together so nicely and work together so harmoniously. And look at the way our immune system heals infections and destroys invaders while we’re watching football games, typing at our computers, or taking our dog for a walk. Look at the way our bodies know how to breathe and how to maintain an internal temperature, even when the temperature outside our bodies varies greatly; and look at the way our digestive system knows how to dissolve all those bits of food we put into our mouths; the way our bodies know how to separate all the helpful stuff (e.g., the proteins and the vitamins and the minerals) from all the unhelpful stuff; and then—wonder of wonders—look at how the human body excretes what is unneeded so efficiently. And then look at the miraculous way each brand-new human being is formed and how the biological female body knows how to grow the body of a little person inside a womb and then feed that little person with milk it generates all on its own once the individual is outside the womb. Our bodies are an incredible Living System containing a zillion, zillion little parts, all working together as one united whole, much like Planet Earth and its gigantic system of interconnected ecosystems. But when we begin to tamper with the Living System that is the human body, or with the interconnected ecosystems of our entire planet, it is nothing but an act of human hubris to think that such tampering won’t eventually cause great harm to us all. I can only hope that humanity wakes up before all of the many “Towers of Babel” we are currently building come tumbling down. And they will come tumbling down. Our human minds are simply too small and limited to understand the complexities of life, not only within our own human bodies but also within the planetary ecosystems of Earth…, which is why I pray with all my heart this day, God help us.
Thank you, Jenny, for this most important (though very disturbing) essay today.
Due to a hysterectomy at 30 .I as a woman with two adopted children with the right chromosomes and real breasts with real nipples. could NOT breastfeed since I had not givrn birth. As I understand it, the two go together. . I made no attempt to do so or my son would have gone hungry so I went the bottle route and we both were happy.
I knew changes would come as the candles on my cake grew more numerous each year, but I have to admit that I NEVER in a million years thought I would ever be confronted with the situation of men thinking they can do which I, as a woman, could not.
That’s the whole point for them - that’s what gets them off, honestly. They say it over and over, trannies are better women than women. They want to compete in women’s sports, they want to have performative periods, etc. But never forget that underneath, it’s a domination and suppression game, played by men against women (no surprise there.)
I appreciate your point of view. I do want to make a few comments about feminism. There are about as many definitions of feminism as there are people using the word. My grandmother always told me that she couldn’t leave my alcoholic and verbally abusive grandfather because she didn’t feel she could go back to her parents with 2 little kids to support. She always told me to never be financially dependent on a man. One of my great-grandmothers raised 8 kids alone during the depression after her husband died. She took in laundry because women didn’t have other job options in those days. Another great-grandmother was left alone with a one year old baby after her husband just left. No one made him pay child support in those days. So has feminism really made things worse for women? I am eternally grateful not to be in their shoes, to have been born in a time where I’m able to have an education and career and support myself, to have equal power in a relationship and the protection of the law, to be able to make my own choices in life. So yes, feminism has made my life better than my female ancestors had it. Is it perfect? No, far from it. But I will take it over the alternative.
This doesn’t mean that I think that men are evil (I’ve been married for 23 years to one who I quite like), or that I’m an eternal victim (although there are a few things I find unfair). I don’t think men and women are identical. I don’t want special treatment for being female, other than acknowledging that certain things are physically different (clearly I need different medical care than males, and I could never compete against them in sports as my body has evolved for a different purpose than theirs).
I acknowledge that there are some schools of feminist thought that are harmful to our society, but I don’t think we want to throw all of feminism out with the bath water. Surely it’s a good thing that none of us today face the challenges my grandmothers and great-grandmothers did.
I hope you do not get into trouble for being so sensible.
Feminism has done women much good. As almost always, though, what's good can fast go bad if pushed to extremes.
• Excellent, as always!
• To me, Feminism went off the rails when they tried to separate Freedom from Responsibility. Without Responsibility, Freedom quickly descends into License.
• Am I the only one who wonders whether all of the tortures inflicted on our language by the liberals - whichever side they're on - are due to to academic navel-watching?
Yes! Some women who got their freedoms went off the rails. I've had this argument with some women about abusive relationships. I believe in trying to help women in an abusive relationship, to a point. At that point she must take responsibility for herself, but often she infantilizes herself and sometimes gets herself and/or law enforcement killed when she keeps returning and calling to be rescued. People who stay in such relationships are getting something out of it, whether it's sex, financial security, avoiding change, etc. We (women) are either fully functioning adults or we're toddlers. Adults need to be responsible for their own choices.
Well, the hard truth is that many (most?) women want to be in "Fifty Shades"-style abusive relationships.
Some women and some men seem to get stuck on a treadmill in an abusive relationship, but I don't believe it's "most" of either sex. Sex fantasy is just fantasy, whether Fifty Shades, a Harlequin Romance novel, or Playboy. Most can discern the difference between fantasy sex and reality.
Fantasy expresses real underlying desires. People may be intelligent enough to recognize that the desires aren't practical or at least constrained by the conflicting desire to be socially respectable, but the desires are still there.
We will have to disagree. Using fantasy is different than desire. Humans sometimes use fantasy as a distraction, or to spice up what you really desire. Desire and fantasy can cross boundaries, but fantasy doesn't inherently express a desire.
Biblical morality, so often dismissively sneered at, would go a long way toward solving problems before they start. God's creation of humanity is described in Genesis 1:27, "In the image of God he created them; male and female he created them."
Wow. I wish I could have written this. It says EVERYTHING I want to say, cogently and intelligently argued. Many thanks to the author!
I had the same thought. It’s excellent.