Guest post: It’s like voting to annul gravity
Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on He’s a Mx.
In the initial digging through the killer’s online tracks, was there the faintest whiff of ‘nonbinary-ism? Were ANY pronouns specified? Might this be a bit of theatre to mock the victims? [John the Drunkard]
But according to the logic of self-ID, the sudden “discovery” of one’s EnBeeness, or Transness is perfectly legitimate and must be respected, centered, and validated. That won’t stop them from playing the “No True NB” card, though. They want it both ways, and they want it now. Trans activism has long since stopped seeing (if it ever saw to start with) the many contradictions in its position. It doesn’t matter if it makes sense, coheres or is consistent. Trans activists don’t need to convince anyone if they can browbeat and bully everyone into compliance. Better still if they can get others to do their bullying for them. Who needs vote and consultation and consent when you can bludgeon your way to your policy goals?
It is mildly shocking that a government is so willing to discredit itself by passing something as fundamentally opposed to reality as this bill. It’s like voting to annul gravity. Gravitation is never going to be brought to book, or appear in the dock. The world won’t give a shit, and people will keep falling down, even if you do lock up everyone who points this out unfortunate fact. Punishing the people who know how reality works, and arresting those who “calls it as they sees it” is all they’ll be able manage. They’ll run out of gaol cells and prisons long before Reality changes its mind. The world will go on its merry way, producing only two sexes of humans, without regard to Scottish Law, which can only prosecute recalcitrant humans rather than a blithely unconcerned biology.
And that’s a feature, not a bug. Religious beliefs rarely have coherence or consistency; if you want to create a religion, remove all things that make sense.
Once someone buys the story, and joins the religion, it’s hard to get out. They invested a lot in believing nonsense, and now it’s difficult for them to accept and admit it’s nonsense, so they stick around, finding ways to convince themselves.
In this case, they’ve coopted a lot of the left because the left sees itself as “good” in a particular way. They are up against those of the right who see themselves as “good” in a different particular way. And, of course, there is the trans away the gay, which parents almost surely see as “good”.
GC feminists aren’t GC because it is “good” or makes them feel good. They are GC because it is the only way to preserve rights for women. If that makes us selfish, so be it, though I do think a lot of us are fighting for rights we may not ourselves ever need. Because we don’t perceive the GC position as a moral position but a practical and realistic one, our approach is different.
I know what “they” would say. We believe the same, we just can’t see it. “They” would say that their position is practical and realistic. The difference is, we offer arguments and they offer memes.
I can’t say with 100% certainty that I am right. But I believe i am right because that’s how I read the evidence. I realize I could be reading it wrong, but I haven’t found “their” way to make sense, and instead of explaining it coherently, they offer platitudes, threats, and memes. That sounds like someone who is coming from a weak position and know it is weak.
It’s the difference between descriptive and prescriptive laws, of course. The law of gravity is descriptive, as is the idea that pi is approximately 3.14*. That hasn’t stopped idiots from trying to make both prescriptive, obviously.
*ref: the famous (somewhat apocryphal) story about the Indiana legislature almost agreeing to declare that pi = 4.00. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Bill
This kind of thing has happened before. Stalin’s regime decreed that natural selection was invalid. They rounded up all the geneticists and killed them or sent them to the gulags. They set about restructuring the nation’s agriculture around communist ideals instead of genetic facts (e.g., crops of the same species should be kept together because they’re of the same “class” and are therefore prone to cooperate and share resources; planting sensitive crops in hostile climates will teach their offspring to become hardier, etc). As a result, about 40 million people died of famine.
The communists hated natural selection because it told them they didn’t have control over their bodies — genetics is not meritocratic; it’s based entirely on inheritance: you are made of what your mother and father gave you, and your genetic makeup will have a profound impact on how your life will play out. No amount of hard work or noble intentions can change that.
This is directly analogous to the gender cult, which hates biological sex because it’s undemocratic: you have no say in what sex you’re born into. You’re one sex or the other, and your sex will have a profound impact on how your life will play out. No amount of gender-bending or hormone injecting can change that.
Humans are mammals. Human life is ultimately the dominion of natural selection and sexual reproduction. It seems the more complicated human society becomes, the more we try to wrestle control away from the cold, hard facts of biology. In some ways we are beating the system: medicine, law, democracy, art, education… these are things that make being alive a lot more enjoyable to endure — for us humans at least. (We’re not making life very pleasant for the other species on the planet.) But human life is still fundamentally a biological concern, and sex is at the very core of our biology. We can do all sorts of things to make life more comfortable, but we can’t change the nature of life itself. You’re born a mix of your parents’ genes; you’re born one sex or the other; you reproduce based on the principles of genetics and sex; then you die. Hopefully you got to have a nice time and see a beautiful sunrise while you were alive. That’s what life is. Even if we wanted to change these fundamentals, we’re not going to get anywhere by making declarations and rounding up all the naysayers. If the gender cultists really want to unshackle themselves from the burdens of biological sex, I wish they’d go off and put their efforts into something like transhumanism, and leave the rest of us to live our lives in peace until they find a way to upload all our consciousnesses into their agender utopian Matrix.
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