Cute shirt tho
Oh look, it’s Alok Vaid-Menon again. It’s been a long time.
To paraphrase somewhat liberally, he says the reason people think trans ideology is bullshit is because we’re so miserable and unfree. “It’s easier to romanticize the unfreedom,” he says emphatically, “decorate and accessorize it” –
Wait wait wait. He’s the guy recording himself in a colorful abstract-patterned shirt and dangly earrings and bright pink hair and heavy eye makeup and lipstick. Who is decorating and accessorizing here?
Another deepity: “People are made to destroy their own creativity, their own simultaneity – “
Our what now? Simultaneity? No we’re not. Look at me: typing and breathing with all the simultaneity in the world.
No, the reason we think it’s bullshit is because it’s not true. It’s based on lies, depends on lies, and it promotes and enforces lies. It demands the suppression and punishment of truth-tellers who criticize or resist it, and it does this with the power and aparatus of the state. So if our rejection of your beliefs is because we’re so stunted and uptight, you’re not helping. If your “liberation” depends upon our being persecuted (see your wielding state power above), then your dishing out of unfreedom and misery is self-defeating. Our moral will not improve.
Yeah, when transactivists adorned baseball bats with baby blue and pink stripes and barbed wire, they were preparing themselves to “decorate” someone else’s non-freedom. And what does your side’s irresponsible broadcasting of suicidal ideation to vulnerable youth alongside the message that the “cis” world is out to get them, and constant whining about incipient trans genocide do to add to the sum total of freedom and happiness in the world for trans identified people?
TL;DR: Acceptance, happiness, and freedom? You’re doing it wrong.
Most of the people upholding the reality of sex are already “gender non-conforming.” And nobody said anything about disappearing trans people from public life. Do your thing to your heart’s content. Just don’t lie about your sex.
Maybe spontaneity instead of simultaneity?
Ah, Alok. Good times. I wonder if he’s managed to get laid yet or if he’s still whining about it.
https://www.butterfliesandwheels.org/2017/the-sorrows-of-young-famous-nonbinary-femmes/
Do make sure you actually listen to him, because he uses the breathy dramatic Poetry Slam Voice, just so you know it’s performance art. The thing is, you can read absolutely anything in Poetry Slam Voice and get the same effect. It’s particularly good for power tool instruction manuals.