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Oh but laydeez are supposed to be kiiiiiiiiiiind.
That’s like saying it’s pointlessly offensive to call a murder “homicide” in court. It’s like saying it’s pointlessly offensive to call forcible uninvited penetration “rape.” It’s like saying it’s pointlessly offensive to call Trump a liar.
The whole point of the case is that whether or not you think that Yearwood and Miller “feel” female inside, the reality remains that they have male bodies and for that reason should not be racing against girls. People who have male bodies are males, whatever they feel like inside their heads. It’s not remotely “callous and hurtful” to say that. It’s quite a lot more callous and hurtful to steal women’s medals and scholarships by claiming to be female when you’re not.
And “trans female” is not more accurate. Quite the opposite: it’s more confusing, and/or more obfuscating. Training us all to call men who say they feel like women “women” conditions us to believe that they really are women, which of course is the goal of trans activism but that doesn’t mean it should be the goal of the rest of us. The feminist move to call women “women” rather than various belittling nicknames took nothing away from anyone. The trans activist move to call men “women” – well you can see the difference without my spelling it out.
Was it “callous and hurtful” to refer to Harvey Weinstein and Bill Cosby as “men”? No. Why should that change just because some men like to think of themselves as women?
Mr. Sullivan, you might want to look up the word “pointless.” I think that word does not mean what you think it means.
The point of the entire case is that these people are males. They can say they identify as females, or hedgehogs, or writing desks, but they remain males, with the abilities and privileges of males. They don’t get a second scoop of all the female privileges as well.
Sometimes saying the truth is callous. Sometimes saying the truth is hurtful. Saying the truth can even be offensive when it is said in the wrong way, at the wrong time. But this is a case of law, not a garden party. It is the right time to say the truth.
One could almost get the impression from that tweet that the athletes pictured are the trans girls in question, whereas they are in fact two of the female athletes.
That actually happened in a case here in Nebraska.
Sort of like the ACLU using the two actresses on one of their TWAW tweets. And I wondered at that, because they didn’t look to me like the other pictures I had seen of Yearwood and Miller, who most definitely look male, and are bigger than the girls they are racing against.
And here we come to it — the massive rock wall dividing truth from fiction. The whole point is that these young men are not women because they are not female. There is no fact-based definition of female that can include them. They simply have a male judge (with a reputation for being an Obama appointed soft-on-sex-offenders type) who cannot be allowed to continue to run this case. He needs to recuse himself or be removed.
This takes me right back to those Islam cartoons and all that. If a person does something innocuous, and another takes offence at that, does the innocuous act become offensive? In the case of Islam it was cartoon depictions of Mohammad, in the gender warz it is the use of language relating to the sexes. If so, this is grants the offended party the heckler’s veto – the offended party has declared that an innocuous thing is now no longer innocuous, and so people must abandon it.
They’re not even that. They’re men who say they feel how they think women feel internally to themselves, something that’s doubly subjective, but these guys would have us believe it’s somehow an objective truth.
Well except that that isn’t what they say. It’s what we say when we analyze what they say, but it’s not what they say, which is a major part of the whole problem. They say they feel like women and we say how the fuck would you even know that (and that there is no such thing as generic “feeling like a woman,” and that it’s meaningless to say you “feel like” something you’re not, and that it would make as much sense to say you “feel like” a birch tree or a lug wrench or Albania, and much more in that vein).