Guest post: A grudging admission preceding a “but”
Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on Looking for a face-saving way to recant.
Amongst them is Keir Starmer. In 2021 the Labour leader said backbencher Rosie Duffield was wrong to say that only women have a cervix; post-Cass he admits that “biologically, she of course is right”.
Sounds like a grudging admission preceding a “but” that’s supposed to mean that deep down he was actually correct.
An awful lot of people who spent years insisting not just that gender-confused kids should be chemically castrated with puberty blockers and speedily prescribed cross-sex hormones, but also that women can have penises and all the other trans articles of faith, are now looking for a face-saving way to recant.
I’m all for the continued embarrassment of the loudmouths and bandwagoneers who cynically chose to use gender bullshit to polish their progressive credentials. But I’d also like to see some accountability for those who pushed and implemented government policy that hurt women in service to gender ideology. I want to know who said “yes” to putting men in women’s prisons and rape crisis centers, and single sex, women’s hospital wards. I want to know who said yes to the lobbyists’ demands, eagerly implementing them with little or no public input, oversight, or scrutiny. There was (and is) no excuse for the thoughtless, reflexive promotion, adoption, and enforcement of these measures, particularly when women foresaw their consequences, and screamed bloody murder to try to stop them. I want these people identified, and called to answer for their destructive actions. It won’t happen of course, but it should.
Should it though? How effective was it for you to be called to account for your “destructive” actions? Were you sufficient example to others for no one to ever do it again? Do you feel your accountability?
It *is* super fun to punish people, but what does it actually accomplish except serve as a salve to our emotions? Better still to move on and fail to acknowledge anything ever happened because accountability is merely an dream for those on the “right side of history”.
The right side of history is the post Christian awaiting judgement from God.
It used to give people a lot of relief that those who sinned/annoyed them would be punished in an after life by an all-seeing being.
“without presuming to look forward to a juster appointment hereafter”
I see your point, and I do confess to harbouring a desire for punishment of those who have acted with impunity behind the scenes, I’m not suggesting “accountability” as a means of putting those responsible in the stocks so passersby can throw rotting vegetables at them. I’m thinking of this more in terms of the kind of investigation held after a fatal plane crash, trying to determine what went wrong in order to improve aircraft design, crew, procedures, etc. to prevent the same thing from happening again. What has been happening with the capture of so many institutions by genderism represents a failure of those institutions, and government in general, failures that have harmed society as a whole and women in particular. Somebody thought putting men in women’s prisons was a good idea, and did so over the objections of women. It didn’t just happen. Somebody said “Yes”. Somebody pushed this in order for it to be carried out. I think it would be a good idea to find out why and how it happened so that we can prevent the like from happening again. At the very least, those who advocated and enforced this decision should be removed from power. When faced with a drunk driver, you get him off the road and take away his keys. Well, we’ve got a lot of drunk drivers behind the wheels of too many of our institutions. Unfortunately, that includes the courts and the police. “Who watches the watchers?” indeed.