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It’s not a sign of a healthy movement for social justice when all it can offer is repetition of dud slogans. By “dud” I mean slogans that don’t even work as slogans, independent of how often they get repeated.
Like so:
That’s just stupid. You can’t force people to “know” something just by typing it six times on Twitter. You can type any old nonsense six times on Twitter; you can do it six times or six thousand times; it still won’t become true.
And the slogan is a very bad slogan, as I’ve pointed way too many times (sorry). Of course trans rights are human rights if they mean the human rights we all have in common. Of course they are not if they mean special trans rights like the “right” to compel people to agree that men are women if they say they are.
Shouting it at us
in
six
lines
won’t convince us.
It took me a long time to understand the point you’re making in the trans rights argument. (Not sure if that’s the right term.) But I think I grasp it now. I think of it as revolving around the issue of female athletes, because I’m a little simple, of young women who train pitilessly in order to excel and then lose that opportunity to competitors who are born male.
I once sat in a lounge at Logan airport drinking coffee with a local woman who had won a silver medal in skiing. She told me briefly about her training regimen and it was really overwhelming. I don’t see how we could do anything other than reward dedication like that.
I agree with you.
Squares are rectangles but rectangles are not necessarily squares.
The pro-trans orgs can chant all they want because that is never going to make a man be a woman. Also will never make me bow to the cult of transgenderism. Bigger and older and better religions than transgenderism have tried to make me obey and failed. I am of the sex that has produced every single human being who has ever existed on this planet, I am here for the long haul.
Geez, this makes me long for the days of arguing with evangelical Christians. At least most of them would mix up their arguments here and there — a little First Cause to start, shift to a Pascal’s Wager, retreat to some ontological or kalam wordplay… they didn’t just pound you over and over again with “God exist, god exists, god exists” and expect you to capitulate.