It's not just about shock value. Queer is a totalitarian religious doctrine that claims a moral imperative to destroy all concepts of normal and all boundaries.
One of the strategies is to intensify the shock value until no one is capable of being shocked by anything. It's a desensitizing technique. Shock is a major mechanism for boundaries of all kinds.
It's not just about shock value. Queer is a totalitarian religious doctrine that claims a moral imperative to destroy all concepts of normal and all boundaries.
One of the strategies is to intensify the shock value until no one is capable of being shocked by anything. It's a desensitizing technique. Shock is a major mechanism for boundaries of all kinds.
I was at a small protest against transing bathrooms and locker rooms at a local high school ahead of a school board meeting on Monday night. There was a lone counter-protester—a 17 year old boy—who engaged me in a calm conversation. I explained to him that my position is that it is one thing for an individual to make their own gender identity more important than their biological sex, but there was no justification to create public policy that puts everyone in that position. He argued that identity is reality. I asked him if he remembered the case of Rachel Dolezal. While he did not remember the name, he remembered the controversy. I asked him, "what if I identified as white?" His response was, "you can be white if you want to be."
Milo, I think this argument needs to be made much more vigorously because it really tests the logic (or lack thereof) in gender theory.
If gender is a construct, then why isn't race? There are far more innate biological and genetic differences between males and females than there are between Black and White people.
The young man you engaged clearly has a dim recollection of Dolezal's experience. She wasn't allowed to identify as Black, so why in the world would you be allowed to identify as White? I would have pushed him to explain this double standard.
There is no "reality" to this viewpoint. There is nothing which can be called "truth". It's all intersectional victimhood. Your buddy there does not understand how much he is violating the Hierarchy of True Victimhood. If he had the temerity to make this statement in front of a group of black lesbians, he would be beaten to a pulp.
It's not just about shock value. Queer is a totalitarian religious doctrine that claims a moral imperative to destroy all concepts of normal and all boundaries.
One of the strategies is to intensify the shock value until no one is capable of being shocked by anything. It's a desensitizing technique. Shock is a major mechanism for boundaries of all kinds.
The technique is working on far too many people.
I was at a small protest against transing bathrooms and locker rooms at a local high school ahead of a school board meeting on Monday night. There was a lone counter-protester—a 17 year old boy—who engaged me in a calm conversation. I explained to him that my position is that it is one thing for an individual to make their own gender identity more important than their biological sex, but there was no justification to create public policy that puts everyone in that position. He argued that identity is reality. I asked him if he remembered the case of Rachel Dolezal. While he did not remember the name, he remembered the controversy. I asked him, "what if I identified as white?" His response was, "you can be white if you want to be."
Milo, I think this argument needs to be made much more vigorously because it really tests the logic (or lack thereof) in gender theory.
If gender is a construct, then why isn't race? There are far more innate biological and genetic differences between males and females than there are between Black and White people.
The young man you engaged clearly has a dim recollection of Dolezal's experience. She wasn't allowed to identify as Black, so why in the world would you be allowed to identify as White? I would have pushed him to explain this double standard.
There is no "reality" to this viewpoint. There is nothing which can be called "truth". It's all intersectional victimhood. Your buddy there does not understand how much he is violating the Hierarchy of True Victimhood. If he had the temerity to make this statement in front of a group of black lesbians, he would be beaten to a pulp.
The long-term objective is normalization of pedophilia, or at least lowering the age of consent. I agree with you.