What comfortable looks like
How the headline looks on the BBC front page:
Whoever is in charge of that front page is sending a signal. Nicely done.
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How the headline looks on the BBC front page:
Whoever is in charge of that front page is sending a signal. Nicely done.
I doubt that this is some sort of GC signal. To people who have bought into the ideology, this probably looks like intense relief, the kind which normally follows having escaped from a fire or a war zone. Ze is recovering from the holocaust which is life before transition to the True Self, a poster child then for sincerity and the desperate need for society to facilitate anything that will help the victims.
You would have to have bought into the ideology to see that as relief, but yeah, I imagine they do.
Hmmmm. But people whose job it is to craft front pages are surely going to be aware of the mismatch between the image and the words. The mismatch between the photo and “feel comfortable” is too extreme to be accidental. I was sort of joking about the signal, but I really can’t believe anyone put that photo with that caption without noticing.
‘intense relief, the kind which normally follows having escaped from a fire or a war zone’
Same metaphor Vaishnavi Sundar uses for her documentary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8taOdnXD6o
I believe that Page will soon learn the limitations of this analogy. I don’t think she’s “escaped” anything. If the threats to her well being are not external, and never have been, then she’s still carrying the “war,”or “fire “within her. Once whatever “relief” or euphoria she might be feeling passes, she’s going to learn the truth of the saying, “Wherever you go, there you are.” I do not wish any of this misery and unhappiness upon her or anyone, but if the discomfort is mental, lopping off bits of yourself is not going to deal with the source of the problem. The part of the problem that is external, the demands and expectations made by a sick, sexist, patriarchal culture, are not going to be resolved by trying to conform to those demands. One is just changing from one set of pathological standards to another. Eventually, one runs out of bits to lop, and you’re still left with whatever internal demons and conflicts you started out with, and still living in the same, malignant culture.
Yes, the enemy is not her breasts.
And it isn’t resolved by transferring the problem to GC feminists, and attacking them as the enemy. They are the ones with the most understanding of the real problem, because we feel it ourselves. We live with it every day, and somehow manage without cutting off healthy parts, changing our name or our pronouns, or adopting the stereotypical image of the opposite sex. We struggle through the same world, some of us with nearly identical problems (I think I’ve mentioned before that I struggle with body dysphoria, but never understood what it was before). We get therapy, or do yoga (yuck) or meditations (yuck) or just drink tons and tons of coffee…we get through. Some of us are miserable. Yes. It’s a lousy way to live, but the misery won’t be cured by pretending we are someone else.
It’s amazing how allegedly progressive people and organizations have bought into gender ideology, which is irredemably regressive and reactionary. Gender critical feminists are actually fighting the real war. In th eyesof trans activists, GC feminists are the enemy, and for good reason. The huge increase in FTM transitioners is a symptom of the bigger picture that feminists see. The epidemic of ROGD can be seen as a “rational” response by young women, trapped within a sexist, patriarchal culture, attempting to escape the burdens placed on their sex. Trans activism denies that ROGD even exists, and by doing so, attempts to try to find any sort of “cause” or “pattern” behind this non-existent phenomena must be derailed. Young women are supposed to just conform to sexist stereotypes, either by submitting to femininity, or “identifying” into maculinity. And of course, there’s always the option of “sex work.” The locus of change, and the onus of responsibility for change, is thus shifted to female minds and bodies, and directed away from the toxic standards from which they are trying to escape. Within trans activism, “gender non-conformity” is the freedom to switch from one cage to the other, leaving bodies broken, and sexist , patriarchal stereotypes safely intact. This is a feature, not a bug. This atomization, the attempt to prevent anyone from connecting the dots, the denial of the sheer numbers of “isolated incidents” of ROGD, is an attempt to conceal the bigger picture that is driving this. To borrow Margaret Thatcher’s phrasing “There is no such thing as patriarchy, just individuals and their gender identities.” Or, to quote The Wizard of Oz, “Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!”
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