Oh, that soft, gentle, warm, comforting, slightly distressed but reasonable male BBC voice trotting out those platitudes about ‘incredibly offensive’, etc that he assumes to be true when they are not. Diawl! I imagine he got his job at the BBC because of that voice. Not for any intelligence, or any serious and independent ethical thoughts he might happen to harbour, but that voice, like treacle, in which he can send anyone who disagrees with the banalities he has so carefully imbibed in order to get and keep his job to a sticky death… Good for Rosie Duffield for standing up to him so well! I must say (being a fairly nasty male myself) that I wonder whether he could maintain that ‘inoffensive’ and hypocritical niceness if the comfortable, thoughtless sphere in which he clearly likes to reside were more rudely punctured.
That’s the key myth / belief / doctrine, isn’t it, maybe even more so than the “thoughts are magic” one – that trans people are THE most oppressed persecuted vulnerable tortured etc etc etc. There’s never much reason offered for this belief, but it’s applied with vigor on all occasions. Why is that? Why has it been so easy to convince people of that?
Perhaps it’s the same process used to convince people that abortion is about “saving babies.” Enough people have seen effeminate men bullied, and male-presenting girls teased for being tomboys that it seems to be universal truism that trans-presenting people are the most vulnerable, as are fetuses.
In both cases, affected women are not really even secondary, and are the villains if given agency at all.
Well, it’s the case with me that I shy away from self-indulgent narcissists, so, yeah, I “marginalize” a lot of them that I read about. Don’t want to be friends with people like that. Co-worker? Fine, as long as you stay in the bathroom for your sex. Neighbor? Fine again, though I might not socialize with you very much.
Why is that? Why has it been so easy to convince people of that?
A cocktail of perceived authority, conformity bias/groupthink, negativity bias, bandwagon effect, pluralistic ignorance, Abilene paradox, Dunning-Kruger effect, in-group bias, filter bubbles, echo chambers, groupshift, spiral of silence, all leading to people’s finding themselves affirming the nonsense. This in turn requires that they engage in cognitive dissonance reduction through a sort of system-justifying epistemology.
It seems almost strange to hear an actual adult saying proper grown-up things.
Oh, that soft, gentle, warm, comforting, slightly distressed but reasonable male BBC voice trotting out those platitudes about ‘incredibly offensive’, etc that he assumes to be true when they are not. Diawl! I imagine he got his job at the BBC because of that voice. Not for any intelligence, or any serious and independent ethical thoughts he might happen to harbour, but that voice, like treacle, in which he can send anyone who disagrees with the banalities he has so carefully imbibed in order to get and keep his job to a sticky death… Good for Rosie Duffield for standing up to him so well! I must say (being a fairly nasty male myself) that I wonder whether he could maintain that ‘inoffensive’ and hypocritical niceness if the comfortable, thoughtless sphere in which he clearly likes to reside were more rudely punctured.
“But surely you must know how offensive it is.” “So, you’re not apologizing.” Even here, she can’t win, can she?
We must be so careful, so careful don’t you see, when it comes to trans people, because their feelings are so much more important than gays or women.
That’s the key myth / belief / doctrine, isn’t it, maybe even more so than the “thoughts are magic” one – that trans people are THE most oppressed persecuted vulnerable tortured etc etc etc. There’s never much reason offered for this belief, but it’s applied with vigor on all occasions. Why is that? Why has it been so easy to convince people of that?
Perhaps it’s the same process used to convince people that abortion is about “saving babies.” Enough people have seen effeminate men bullied, and male-presenting girls teased for being tomboys that it seems to be universal truism that trans-presenting people are the most vulnerable, as are fetuses.
In both cases, affected women are not really even secondary, and are the villains if given agency at all.
Just a hunch.
Well, it’s the case with me that I shy away from self-indulgent narcissists, so, yeah, I “marginalize” a lot of them that I read about. Don’t want to be friends with people like that. Co-worker? Fine, as long as you stay in the bathroom for your sex. Neighbor? Fine again, though I might not socialize with you very much.
A cocktail of perceived authority, conformity bias/groupthink, negativity bias, bandwagon effect, pluralistic ignorance, Abilene paradox, Dunning-Kruger effect, in-group bias, filter bubbles, echo chambers, groupshift, spiral of silence, all leading to people’s finding themselves affirming the nonsense. This in turn requires that they engage in cognitive dissonance reduction through a sort of system-justifying epistemology.