The obsessiveness
Mostly Cloudy alerted us to a piece by “a clickbait-spewing hack called Katherine Alejandra Cross” who disapproves of Jesse Singal. There’s this one bit in the piece…
Your average New York Times subscriber is not Extremely Online but is increasingly being fed opinions and ‘analysis’ from writers who are, and who find themselves increasingly angry at all the annoying people who spoonerise their names and troll them on platforms.
Trans people are a good example of this. Some small group of angry trans people harangues a journalist—rightly or wrongly—for being a bigot, and then this feeds a resentment that others like Jonathan Chait or Matt Yglesias give shape and form with plausible, lib-pleasing moderate language that, in turn, those Extremely Online journalists transcribe into the pages of respectable publications.
There are few ways of explaining the obsessiveness with which the mainstream press has published stories “critical” or “skeptical” of trans people without recourse to social media and how it makes us loom large in the minds of the terminally online, nor how that overemphasis has been adroitly exploited by provocateurs who’ve long dripped poison in the ears of epistemic movers and shakers. It’s not unreasonable to suspect that Twitter played a leading role in radicalising J.K. Rowling or Elon Musk against trans rights, for instance.
Makes us loom large? So this is a trans woman then? Yes.
Also the obligatory Trans Laydee Pout photo. Push those lips out, babe, they make you look SO womany.
So, of course he goes on to explain what trans rights are, yes? Hahaha no of course not. As always, they go unspecified, because if one spells them out, it becomes too obvious that they’re not rights at all.
Broken neck pose, too.
Without DARVO, this lot would be sooo lost. They’d have to actually fight their corner.
And you’d think it would be tiresome feeling the need to constantly accumulate and display Evidence of Womaning, though the women’s bathroom versions are just the equivalent of male dogs marking their territory by pissing on lamposts.
Yeah Twitter radicalized us, the crazy people who think men are women if they say they are – oh wait, no, that’s the other team. DARVO indeed.
Of course nothing means anything any more beyond the ability to spin out a plausible pseudo-explanatory narrative. No maate, I’m not interested in your “few ways of explaining” the fact that the media sometimes does its job. A marginally correct explanation would be all that’s needed. Just the facts,
ma’am. Everyone’s just too stupid or too corrupt to accept the truth? Go and talk to some flat-earthers. They’ll tell you all about “The Truth” but (mostly) without the sanctimonious, self-serving self-regarding bullshit. I’ll take their mostly honest bullshit to your pouting, oh-so-wise-peering-over-your-glasses, carefully curated dissimulation.The shape of the earth is a bit more fundamental than men can’t become women; one way sex changing vertebrates do exist (though they mostly squirt gametes into water so that’s less dramatic than it would be with a mammal).. A flat earth requires that most/all of physics be tossed out the window.
I find it astounding how many people, keen to dismiss Elon Musk, ascribe his views on trans to anything except what happened to his own child.
I love how this person refers to Jesse Singal as a “provocateur”, when Singal goes out of his way to be polite and respectful when posting online.
Well I’m sure it’s not just that he’s a terrible father that has terrible children, but the idea that anyone has been radicalized by a NYT editorial is almost as ridiculous an assertion as “sex is a spectrum”.
Also characterizing Jesse as an activist is laughable.
A flat earth requires that most/all of physics be tossed out the window.
I know that! what we me having a Physics degree an’ all! It’s just that since I’ve discovered that stupidity is, in fact the most powerful force in the universe, I’ve turned my attention that way. Maybe I can become the Newton, if not the Einstein, of stupidity!