Not so much Artemis as Priapus
Anna Slatz at Reduxx tells us:
The Washington Post is under fire after sympathetically profiling a trans-identified male who enrolled in a sorority at the University of Wyoming and reportedly exposed his erection to the female members. Artemis Langford, who began identifying as a “lesbian” in 2017, was accepted into Kappa Kappa Gamma despite not even meeting basic eligibility requirements.
Plain old boring everyday women can’t do that, but special special special men who say they are women are welcomed with fireworks and a parade. Why’s that? What’s so special about a man saying he “identifies as” a lesbian? Why isn’t it just a childish taunt or insult?
On October 14, the Washington Post released an extensive profile on Langford sympathetically portraying him as the victim of a hate campaign. In one section, the writer, William Wang, attempts to compare Langford’s transgender experiences and the history of women being excluded from higher education institutions.
But you see it’s not the same thing. Women being excluded from universities is not the same as a man pretending to be a woman. The two are really quite different.
While the female complainants have expressed a desire to appeal the decision, there have b been reports that KKG administrators are attempting to bar the young women from doing so.
Women must not be allowed to win anything.
This is certainly not the only instance, and it’s infuriating. It is so damned important to showcase trans inclusion that they waive requirements, ignore obvious problems, demand that ties be decided in favor of the trans participant, and so on. I guess doing absolutely anything that works against a trans-identified person constitutes transphobia, and we can’t have even a hint of that. We’ve all seen trans-identified males “participating” in women’s gymnastics, or the women’s forms of ballet, and they aren’t even as competent as male gymnasts or male ballet dancers of some reasonable proficiency, but they are given much publicity and applause.
I wonder how much of this “hate” was criticism, or his being told he isn’t a woman, can’t be a woman and never will be a woman. Or one of those “genital fetshist” lesbians saying “No” to his advances. Is it “hateful” to tell a cheating, boundary-violating, pervy man to “Fuck off”? Silly me; saying “No” or “Fuck off” to a man is always hateful. Doubly so when that man claims to be a woman.
I guess we should be thankful that the Post hasn’t compared his experiences to Jewish professors losing their university teaching posts under the Nazis in Hitler’s Germany. They’re saving that analogy for if and when he gets thrown out of the sorority. Mustn’t use your biggest weapon right away; ya gotta keep something in reserve.
If someone wrote this in a work of fiction, it would be blue-pencilled to oblivion.
Sorry. Sometimes low-hanging fruit is just too tempting to resist. Sometimes these things just write themselves.
Men can be women, sooooooo….. it would probably help their case, particularly in the scientific community, if they also made an announcement that in their opinion, the Moon is made of green cheese.
Sorry, you just keep the Australian in me down.
Wang, in Australia, is a synonym for penis.
Also, a reminder that Wang Laboratories had to change its worldwide tagline, Wang Cares, for the Australian market. Australian accents rendered it as Wankers.
I noticed Wang. I didn’t notice William at first. You’d invent a middle name just to try and divert attention from being called Willy Wang, wouldn’t you?
This is the creative literary process. Willy Wanker leads on to Willy Wonka, and from there and thence on to Billy Bonker.
Not just in Australia. When I arrived in Birmingham (UK) in October 1970 a senior professor had just acquired a Wang calculator. People referred to it as Geoffrey’s wang, and the reference to the slang was intentional.
I hope the newspaper makes him redundant.
I did start reading that article and lost the will to live. American journalists take about 5 times as many words as British ones to make their points.
I’m just going to say that I think the most basic qualification for being a member of a sorority is to be a woman, is that the qualification that was waived? And did he choose the name Artemis because he still has his “arrow?”
So a 1.9 GPA identifies as 2.7 minimum. Helps explain the PhD factories I suppose.
Sadly “William Wang” seems to be a typo for William Wan.
This phenomenon keeps coming up, and every time it’s very weird and patronising. The man is clearly not qualified to do the thing, and so you see him flailing around while the women dance or skate or whatever around him, and everyone claps. He’s being treated as a pet or a mascot, not as just one of the team, and I honestly don’t understand how he doesn’t see it. Reading the WaPo article, it’s clear that half the girls wanted Artemis out because they think he’s a creep and half the girls treated Artemis as their harmless little mentally-disabled virtue-signal pet, but not a single sorority sister thinks of Artemis as One Of Them.