That’s happiness?
The headline, for a start.
‘It is life-saving’: Elliot Page reveals happiness at having had top surgery
That is, Elliot Page claims happiness at having had her healthy breasts cut off.
It has been widely noted that Page doesn’t appear the least bit happy in her interview with Oprah Winfrey.
“I want people to know that not only has it been life-changing for me, I do believe it is life-saving and it’s the case for so many people,” the actor told Oprah Winfrey on her new show for Apple TV+.
So more and more and more girls and women should get their healthy breasts cut off. It will make them so happy.
Unless of course it doesn’t, but hey, it’s still awesome to be encouraging this, because you just never know, am I right?
Page urged officials to support healthcare for transgender people and allow them access to sports. Republican lawmakers across the US are seeking to curtail gender-affirming care and punish doctors who deliver it, as well as banning trans youth from playing sports.
No they’re not, you stinking liars. They’re not “seeking to ban trans youth from playing sports.” You know that. You’re telling a shameless lie, in aid of helping more boys and men take the place of girls and women in sports.
“Children will die,” Page said. “And it really is that simple.”
No it isn’t.
This week, state legislators in Florida rushed through a bill that would ban trans women and girls from participating in school sports. Critics described the move as “cruel and horrific”.
No they didn’t. Lying again.
I hope the backlash starts soon.
How long ’til her suicide/OD? Thanks wokesters for increasing human suffering…
“Top surgery” simply proves you always were, and always will be, female. No amount of surgery will change that.
Maybe they’ll make you a “penis” for when you have your “bottom surgery”, but it won’t function as a male penis. It will not respond to erotic stimulation without aids, you will never ejaculate from your testes. In other words, you will never feel some of the main points of sexual satisfaction a male derives from the combination of penis and testes.
You will spend a lot of money slicing and dicing your body, and you will still be female. And you will no longer experience the sexual satisfaction a female enjoys.
I don’t hate you, I don’t want to deny your existence, but he sure as hell feel pity that you have succumbed to such a devestating mental illness.
When you step back from the issues, and you look at the person, it is really desperately sad. Claims of being happy directly contrast with the visual evidence. What appeared to be a real relationship at the very least significantly downgraded, likely as a prelude to complete distancing. Whatever pronoun one cares to use, Page’s life appears to be spiraling.
In the first season of the Umbrella Academy Page looked absolutely anorexic. When Elliot Page went public, all I could think was that Page was horribly mistreated in Hollywood, and acting as a profession is one where you have so little control, especially as a child actor. I just see someone in a lot of pain struggling for control and failing.
Elliot has an unconventional way of expressing happiness. Indeed if I hadn’t been told it was happiness, I’d have said it looked more like extreme anxiety. I’ve only seen a clip of the interview and won’t be seeking out the full performance because what I saw was gruesome. I suspect that anyone who comes to this with an open mind will have similar thoughts. I am very sorry for any individual who finds life so difficult, and I hope Elliot can be a warning to those who seek surgical solutions to mental problems.
‘Elliot has an unconventional way of expressing happiness. Indeed if I hadn’t been told it was happiness, I’d have said it looked more like extreme anxiety.’
I hadn’t really thought about it until I read what you wrote, but…this person is an actor. Surely she’s aware of what ‘happy’ looks like, and capable of portraying ‘happy’ on video and in images (thinking of the Time magazine cover and photo spread). The fact that she seems unable to do it convincingly lately really must signal that she’s so badly off she’s not even up to trying.
Page’s voice here sounds exactly like Sarah Silverman doing a parody bit. It’s strange to hear someone talk about no longer being panicked by their appearance in such a panicked-sounding voice.
I’m sure the call for “gender-affirming care” is meant sincerely to help people, but if this emotional wreck of a person is the result then no.
Watching the video, I was struck by Oprah’s reaction — or, rather, lack of one. Though her words were edited out, her expression could be described as blank to grim. This isn’t how she reacts to a joyous coming out story where things have improved sooo much. This is how she reacts to someone undergoing trauma.
Really good point–the interview doesn’t appear to be as celebratory as the subject seems to be saying it is.
The thing that most women look on with horror – a mastectomy – something to celebrate.
My mother once had a lump in her breast. She was operated on. In those days they couldn’t check whether the lump was malignant or not before surgery so she went under the anaesthetic not knowing if she would wake up with one breast or two.
If you want to rejoice you don’t live in earlier times, read an account of Fanny Burney’s mastectomy without anaesthetic. She actually survived and lived to 88.
https://www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org/human/seven-men-in-black-a-mastectomy-in-1811/
I have read that…I think standing at a shelf in the university library here. It’s excruciating.