"They doth protest too much, methinks". I'm always suspicious of such violent pushback and shutting down of questioning and debate. Trans activists are trying to convince us the emperor who has no clothes isn't walking the streets completely naked. And when someone points out the obvious, that indeed, the emperor is stark naked, they're immediately demonized for falling out of step with a mass delusion.
I think trans people deserve the same rights and legal protections as any other citizen, however, when their demands start to erode girls' and women's hard won rights to fair competition in sports and women-only spaces, and when children are being cut to pieces or given questionable drugs with permanent, life-altering effects in some Frankensteineske ode to a junk science ideology, that's where I draw the line.
No human being can fully transform themselves, down to the cellular level, into the opposite sex. It's not possible.
What has happened to you, Mary, and to many women who have spoken out about protecting women's and children's rights and acknowledged the veracity of basic biology, is so completely unacceptable and infuriating, mostly because of the acquiescence of people who know better to mob mentality.
My only hope is that the left will one day wake up from their fever dream, and the public square will once again be opened up to free and honest debate.
I wholeheartedly wish you all the best in your artistic endeavors, and I hope they're a great success.
Hi Stephanie, I liked your post in response to Mary (mine is just above yours). I also remember the play you sent me about East German border guards, and I'm so glad it had a successful run. You captured something there about ideology and mental health in a very graphic way.
You are most definitely not alone!! Christ, though, your experience is absolutely unhinged. Shame on all of those who cut you off at your time of need. I, unfortunately, know precisely what that is like. Solidarity to you xxx
Thank YOU, Jenny, for your book, Hounded. Your work was the lighthouse I needed in this very dark time. You are deeply appreciated and supported all the way from stupid Portland!
It's clear from the Facebook posts you quoted who the real haters are here. This pathological hatred is not an outgrowth of a compassionate desire to defend the rights of the marginalized, it comes from somewhere else. And it is counterproductive to any good intention. Woke dogmas seem to evoke this kind of hatred, which eventually results in chaos, havoc and harm to innocents, as your case clearly indicates, as well as damaging the people who feel compelled to bow to it. Thank you for writing this and for standing up, which may be the only solution. It is the good fight. More power and bon courage to you, and I will definitely make a point of seeing your new play if it comes anywhere near New York. Just keep us informed. My thoughts and prayers are with you, Mary.
Kathy, yes, your chilling line "...it comes from somewhere else" is entirely true. This group's core impulse is not life-affirming, it is death-affirming, easily understood from those 6 snippets FAIR chose for the essay. Though I have all the receipts of these kinds of posts, going back to 2018 now, I asked the FAIR folks to choose what they wanted to include, as 1) it hurts so much to read them and 2) just in case there were names evident on the posts (a friend gathers them, not me) I didn't want to let bias inform the choice. So they were clean in this way, and I think even more impactful. The truth is right there for all to read. Again... chilling.
An absolutely horrifying tale, but your resilience (it may not feel like it!) is quite incredible. I gave up when subjected to only a fraction of what you went through, and I'm a bloke.
I’m so sorry for what you went through! You are so brave. I’m still hiding my gender critical thoughts from most people and this is inspiring. You’re a good person and more people agree with you than you realize. As a (former?) democrat I am so distressed by the mob rule on the left and the violence of radical trans activists.
Beautiful piece about your journey as a woman who dares exist in this misogynist world as an independent, free thinker and creative person with a belief that you have the right to express your self freely. Men can never be women, and humans can never change sex. These truths will get the mob on you each time. Mobs come for women who claim our sex based rights, our rights to speak up for our liberation. So be it, it has always been, but we cannot and will not shut up. So appreciate your strong sense of clarity, truth and courage. Many of us stand with you and are trying in our various ways to bring an end to this dangerous, harmful "gender identity" ideology.
Hideous and then remarkable. A civilized society cannot sustain this. Although these people think they do not want a civilized society, hence queer theory. I love your poem. I will share this with an artistic friend.
I’m a visual artist, and a Christian. After reading about the origins of Facebook, by Wittney Webb, I made up my mind & deleted the entire Facebook ecosystem from my life. Since then, I’ve discovered some amazing voices, like this this Edifi podcast, by Cheryl Lumley- very insightful, or James Lindsay’s lectures on woke Marxism and how to fight it. (Listen to JL on New Discourses, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts).
PS: That still, quiet voice you heard, it sounded a lot like Jesus Christ speaking to you and knocking on the door of your heart. Christ suffered relentless persecution and accusation- he conquered evil and will bear your burdens and put faithful people in your life to walk with you.
Also Loved the powerful poem about standing firm that you shared at the end. Thank you for rewarding readers with such eloquent writing ! I am deeply encouraged!
Ah, the curses 'n blessin's of "The Scottish Play"--but sendin' ya all the best, Mary McDonald-Lewis, from an also cancelled actTruss & sum'timez filmmaker an' currently a substack-ian crackpot (who takes a lotta heat fer writin' like an Al Capp characteur!). (writin' in the vernacular keeps the AI bots away an' let's me take on a role since I ain't gettin' cast now!)
You got gumption, milady, an' I hope all yer shows git made with yer name on the title an' all the support ya deserve. Ye know yer plight ain't rare... Fer various 'n sundry DEI excuses they fire / alienate / ruin folks that don't fit their paradigm (which is reDICKuLust woke malarkey). Been in that capsizin' boat mi'self (my younger daughter too)--cuz we ain't DiVERSE enuf (oy). Y'a likely know bout instances like this 'u'n:
He's not the only one! An'nuther fella, friend of our friends, who wuz workin' at the New Victory (kids thee-ate-er, NYC) had the same thing happen... they wanted non-white sign-erz fer the deaf. Funny, he wuzza gay guy but that didn't fit enuf checkboxes... They are hungry suck-u-busses these woketards... it's never enuf...
Bein' a "charak-teur" actruss I LOVE love love me mah dialects! (I larned with Lessac...an' trooly mah Standard Southern ain't near as wacky as mah writin' ;-) but anywayz... I've noticed over the last 10-15 years that now my be-loved dialects ain't pee-cee no more an' it gits worse 'n worse (more like dia-LECTICS t'day, marXist style). Lordy what's the whirled comin' ta if ye cain't chew up the scenery with fun accents? So not only are ye a playwright but a dialect coach--whut JOY!
By the by... ye should read John Hudson on Amelia Basanno Lanier--Shakespeare's Dark Lady cuz (I think you'll like it!) Shakespeare might've been a laydee! (given all them tee-riffic female roles--wull...I'm persuaded m'self!)
As a per-former, I know what it 'tis ta be cancelled too! We had ta leave our home (NYShitty) b/c we ALSO didn't comply with the insane the-AT-riCULL counter measures (i.e. not rollin' up our sleeves fer the covid jabs an' distancin' an' swabs up folks noses an' masks--imho the only the-ate-her in MASKS should be Greek! Medea, sure, but off off B'way? c'mon...) 'Fore I left I wuz teachin' a bunch'a teen gals improv (unmasked, undistanced, no-jabs-er-dumb-proty-culls required) an' ye wouldn't BELIEVE the hate I got... got cancelled by all the moms that claimed I wuz puttin' these girls at risk. Ended up nobuddy (nobuddy) got sick (no covid, no nuthin') an' the girls had a GRAND time not bein' forced ta be home on zoom. Nobuddy "made" anybuddy join--it just "galled" some that I'd dare teach without all them absurd rules in place. Every mama in our group wuz willin' ta take such a "risk" ta let their girls be with friends (we all 'r homeschoolers) an' have a ball. All those grumpy naysayers STILL won't talk ta me... This (I'm learnin') is whut happens when DOGMA invades life... (I'mma HUGE fan've doggies too btw!)
Like the fabulous ol' song... Pick Yourself Up (Jerome Kern / Dorothy Fields lyrics)... we gotta keep on doin' our stuff even in the face 've woketards, craptards, an' simply dang fools.
Toi Toi Toi fer yer next incarnation of The Macbeths!
Sobering tale, here. There is an anti-Woke Base tide going, but this has not touched places like Portland and probably Seattle - all the Leftist Wacko locations.
The only way to the other side is walking through these fires. Thanks for staying resolute in your convictions. I was not able to return to my 'art' after getting my last child off to college. She was promptly sucked into the 'gender' cult where they attempted to turn her into a monster for several years. She extricated herself after a lengthy estrangement. I remain stuck in 'genderland' because our sons and daughters deserve better than the hell that has been orchestrated. I will be on the lookout for your play.
"They doth protest too much, methinks". I'm always suspicious of such violent pushback and shutting down of questioning and debate. Trans activists are trying to convince us the emperor who has no clothes isn't walking the streets completely naked. And when someone points out the obvious, that indeed, the emperor is stark naked, they're immediately demonized for falling out of step with a mass delusion.
I think trans people deserve the same rights and legal protections as any other citizen, however, when their demands start to erode girls' and women's hard won rights to fair competition in sports and women-only spaces, and when children are being cut to pieces or given questionable drugs with permanent, life-altering effects in some Frankensteineske ode to a junk science ideology, that's where I draw the line.
No human being can fully transform themselves, down to the cellular level, into the opposite sex. It's not possible.
What has happened to you, Mary, and to many women who have spoken out about protecting women's and children's rights and acknowledged the veracity of basic biology, is so completely unacceptable and infuriating, mostly because of the acquiescence of people who know better to mob mentality.
My only hope is that the left will one day wake up from their fever dream, and the public square will once again be opened up to free and honest debate.
I wholeheartedly wish you all the best in your artistic endeavors, and I hope they're a great success.
Hi Stephanie, I liked your post in response to Mary (mine is just above yours). I also remember the play you sent me about East German border guards, and I'm so glad it had a successful run. You captured something there about ideology and mental health in a very graphic way.
You are most definitely not alone!! Christ, though, your experience is absolutely unhinged. Shame on all of those who cut you off at your time of need. I, unfortunately, know precisely what that is like. Solidarity to you xxx
Thank YOU, Jenny, for your book, Hounded. Your work was the lighthouse I needed in this very dark time. You are deeply appreciated and supported all the way from stupid Portland!
It's clear from the Facebook posts you quoted who the real haters are here. This pathological hatred is not an outgrowth of a compassionate desire to defend the rights of the marginalized, it comes from somewhere else. And it is counterproductive to any good intention. Woke dogmas seem to evoke this kind of hatred, which eventually results in chaos, havoc and harm to innocents, as your case clearly indicates, as well as damaging the people who feel compelled to bow to it. Thank you for writing this and for standing up, which may be the only solution. It is the good fight. More power and bon courage to you, and I will definitely make a point of seeing your new play if it comes anywhere near New York. Just keep us informed. My thoughts and prayers are with you, Mary.
Kathy, yes, your chilling line "...it comes from somewhere else" is entirely true. This group's core impulse is not life-affirming, it is death-affirming, easily understood from those 6 snippets FAIR chose for the essay. Though I have all the receipts of these kinds of posts, going back to 2018 now, I asked the FAIR folks to choose what they wanted to include, as 1) it hurts so much to read them and 2) just in case there were names evident on the posts (a friend gathers them, not me) I didn't want to let bias inform the choice. So they were clean in this way, and I think even more impactful. The truth is right there for all to read. Again... chilling.
An absolutely horrifying tale, but your resilience (it may not feel like it!) is quite incredible. I gave up when subjected to only a fraction of what you went through, and I'm a bloke.
Bring the Macbeths to London, I'll go.
The left eating its own. Bon appétit!
I’m so sorry for what you went through! You are so brave. I’m still hiding my gender critical thoughts from most people and this is inspiring. You’re a good person and more people agree with you than you realize. As a (former?) democrat I am so distressed by the mob rule on the left and the violence of radical trans activists.
Beautiful piece about your journey as a woman who dares exist in this misogynist world as an independent, free thinker and creative person with a belief that you have the right to express your self freely. Men can never be women, and humans can never change sex. These truths will get the mob on you each time. Mobs come for women who claim our sex based rights, our rights to speak up for our liberation. So be it, it has always been, but we cannot and will not shut up. So appreciate your strong sense of clarity, truth and courage. Many of us stand with you and are trying in our various ways to bring an end to this dangerous, harmful "gender identity" ideology.
Hideous and then remarkable. A civilized society cannot sustain this. Although these people think they do not want a civilized society, hence queer theory. I love your poem. I will share this with an artistic friend.
I’m a visual artist, and a Christian. After reading about the origins of Facebook, by Wittney Webb, I made up my mind & deleted the entire Facebook ecosystem from my life. Since then, I’ve discovered some amazing voices, like this this Edifi podcast, by Cheryl Lumley- very insightful, or James Lindsay’s lectures on woke Marxism and how to fight it. (Listen to JL on New Discourses, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts).
https://player.edifi.app/episodes/Marxists-i.e.-Democrats-destroy-art/7077363
PS: That still, quiet voice you heard, it sounded a lot like Jesus Christ speaking to you and knocking on the door of your heart. Christ suffered relentless persecution and accusation- he conquered evil and will bear your burdens and put faithful people in your life to walk with you.
Also Loved the powerful poem about standing firm that you shared at the end. Thank you for rewarding readers with such eloquent writing ! I am deeply encouraged!
That still, quiet voice was like nothing I've ever heard. It was staff and comfort. Thank you for this affirmation.
Ah, the curses 'n blessin's of "The Scottish Play"--but sendin' ya all the best, Mary McDonald-Lewis, from an also cancelled actTruss & sum'timez filmmaker an' currently a substack-ian crackpot (who takes a lotta heat fer writin' like an Al Capp characteur!). (writin' in the vernacular keeps the AI bots away an' let's me take on a role since I ain't gettin' cast now!)
You got gumption, milady, an' I hope all yer shows git made with yer name on the title an' all the support ya deserve. Ye know yer plight ain't rare... Fer various 'n sundry DEI excuses they fire / alienate / ruin folks that don't fit their paradigm (which is reDICKuLust woke malarkey). Been in that capsizin' boat mi'self (my younger daughter too)--cuz we ain't DiVERSE enuf (oy). Y'a likely know bout instances like this 'u'n:
https://nypost.com/2022/11/26/broadway-interpreter-fired-for-being-white-settles-case-amid-backlash/
He's not the only one! An'nuther fella, friend of our friends, who wuz workin' at the New Victory (kids thee-ate-er, NYC) had the same thing happen... they wanted non-white sign-erz fer the deaf. Funny, he wuzza gay guy but that didn't fit enuf checkboxes... They are hungry suck-u-busses these woketards... it's never enuf...
Bein' a "charak-teur" actruss I LOVE love love me mah dialects! (I larned with Lessac...an' trooly mah Standard Southern ain't near as wacky as mah writin' ;-) but anywayz... I've noticed over the last 10-15 years that now my be-loved dialects ain't pee-cee no more an' it gits worse 'n worse (more like dia-LECTICS t'day, marXist style). Lordy what's the whirled comin' ta if ye cain't chew up the scenery with fun accents? So not only are ye a playwright but a dialect coach--whut JOY!
By the by... ye should read John Hudson on Amelia Basanno Lanier--Shakespeare's Dark Lady cuz (I think you'll like it!) Shakespeare might've been a laydee! (given all them tee-riffic female roles--wull...I'm persuaded m'self!)
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/john-hudson/shakespeares-dark-lady-amelia-bassano-lanier/
As a per-former, I know what it 'tis ta be cancelled too! We had ta leave our home (NYShitty) b/c we ALSO didn't comply with the insane the-AT-riCULL counter measures (i.e. not rollin' up our sleeves fer the covid jabs an' distancin' an' swabs up folks noses an' masks--imho the only the-ate-her in MASKS should be Greek! Medea, sure, but off off B'way? c'mon...) 'Fore I left I wuz teachin' a bunch'a teen gals improv (unmasked, undistanced, no-jabs-er-dumb-proty-culls required) an' ye wouldn't BELIEVE the hate I got... got cancelled by all the moms that claimed I wuz puttin' these girls at risk. Ended up nobuddy (nobuddy) got sick (no covid, no nuthin') an' the girls had a GRAND time not bein' forced ta be home on zoom. Nobuddy "made" anybuddy join--it just "galled" some that I'd dare teach without all them absurd rules in place. Every mama in our group wuz willin' ta take such a "risk" ta let their girls be with friends (we all 'r homeschoolers) an' have a ball. All those grumpy naysayers STILL won't talk ta me... This (I'm learnin') is whut happens when DOGMA invades life... (I'mma HUGE fan've doggies too btw!)
Like the fabulous ol' song... Pick Yourself Up (Jerome Kern / Dorothy Fields lyrics)... we gotta keep on doin' our stuff even in the face 've woketards, craptards, an' simply dang fools.
Toi Toi Toi fer yer next incarnation of The Macbeths!
Please do let us know where we can see dates for The Macbeths.
Really gorgeous writing. I’ll be on the lookout for The Macbeths.
Stop.
Voting.
Democrat.
For real. It's the only way they'll learn.
Wow! That was powerful.
Thanks for all you do, fellow traveler.
Sobering tale, here. There is an anti-Woke Base tide going, but this has not touched places like Portland and probably Seattle - all the Leftist Wacko locations.
The only way to the other side is walking through these fires. Thanks for staying resolute in your convictions. I was not able to return to my 'art' after getting my last child off to college. She was promptly sucked into the 'gender' cult where they attempted to turn her into a monster for several years. She extricated herself after a lengthy estrangement. I remain stuck in 'genderland' because our sons and daughters deserve better than the hell that has been orchestrated. I will be on the lookout for your play.