Guest Post by Jim Kunstler
Speaking as a black woman… wait second! Can I do that? Well, why not. We’re now a nation consumed by make-believe, in which you can declare anything you want about yourself and insist that everyone else agree that it is so. If I identify this way, you must believe me! (Or else I will come after you with my cos-play mob and destroy you.)
The avatars out on the cutting edge of culture want to dissolve all the boundaries between all categories of everything — except us and them: their allies and their enemies. Everything else is slated to become — by force, if necessary — a big, turbid, zero-gravity soup of intersectional relativity. The reasons for this sanctioned insanity are not exactly what you think they are.
Case in point: The Sunday New York Times Magazine profile of one Jill Soloway, Hollywood producer / director and now memoirist of the book She Wants It: Desire, Power and Toppling the Patriarchy (“out this week,” note that little detail.) Mx. Soloway (Mx. being the newest engineered intersectional salutation) runs a movie production company named Topple, best known for putting out the TV show Transparent, about an older man who decides he’d be happier pretending to be a woman, and all the good family feeling that such a decision might engender, so to speak.
Gender was complicated for Mx. Soloway, for whom puberty arrived late, but with the sudden appearance of large breasts. “Do other people’s memories of their teenage years include things like soccer competitions or blue ribbons?” they write. “All I have is the memory of being suddenly overwhelmed by becoming sex to others.”
Aha, the curse of large breasts. What a life-annihilating affliction.
And yes, you read that right. Mx. Soloway now insists on being addressed as “they,”(The Times obliges) invoking a linguistic hall-of-mirrors in which there are always two of you: the one located in space and the one in the mirror — shall we surmise? — or perhaps there is another explanation. One might goof on the narcissistic buffoonery of this stuff all the livelong day, but that would be tiresome and cruel, so I will just come to the point tell you what is going on here, what it is all about.
It is about fashion, status, and prestige as has been the case in human social relations since earliest (hu)man put a banana leaf on its head, to the awe and wonder of others gathered ‘round. All three of those conditions depend on a person being special, a figure apart from the boring, moiling, deplorable mob of morons who agree to be hostage to their own biology. Biology is a disease to be overcome, and you can do that by asserting your will. For instance, in the case at hand of Mx. Soloway, you can get breast reduction surgery, cut off your hair, and wear baggy clothes. This does not make you a man, but it allows you to affect to renounce your “sexual assignment.” Anyway, who wants to be a man? (The enemy!)
Jill Soloway by Ryan Pfluger for The New York Times
Rather, you pretend to exist in a make-believe liminal realm in between, relieved of all the pain-in-the-ass tensions of being one or the other, and therefore, to some degree, the tensions of being a mature mammal. Is the game of “pretend” not the chief occupation of childhood, either a happy one or otherwise? And is not Hollywood all about the game of pretend? And so, in Hollywood, the most zealous pretenders acquire the highest prestige.
The trick is to get other people to agree that your pretenses are bona fide (the Emperors New Clothes gambit). One way to accomplish that is to elaborate a fantasy that has already been set in motion as a fashion statement. With good old-fashioned American Puritanism coming back into fashion under the guise of Maoist authoritarianism emanating from the campuses, nothing carries higher status than anathemizing human sexuality, working every angle to abolish it, to banish it from the world, and to punish those who object.
There are a few little problems with this. One is, you’re still stuck with your actual biological sexuality, whether you like it or not. Every cell in the body is imprinted — except in rare instances of what used to be called “birth defects.” There’s no “returns” policy at the sexual assignment bureau. Accordingly, people who stop short of completely screwing up their bodies with genital amputation and radical hormone treatments are still subject to sexual promptings of the type associated with their cellular DNA. Mx. Soloway has demonstrated this in her own work, as The Times explains:
After the author [Mx S.] falls in love with a lesbian while still married, the two enthusiastically make a short comedy about female ejaculation. The Topple crew pitched in, building a giant vagina and helping with costumes. Mx. Soloway calls the film, inevitably, “If You Build It, She Will Come.”
One of The New York Times’s chief roles in our society has been to confer prestige on the people they chose to write about. The Times is a mighty churning engine of status-granting, locked in a feedback loop with the readership it is working to flatter so as to place them in the social hierarchy du jour. Unfortunately, what they have to work with du jour is cultural collapse, which is exactly what converts degeneracy into prestige. It’s an unappetizing process, and its products — supposedly “gender-fluid” adult mammals — have exactly such an unappetizing presentation. What is most fashionable these days is obviously unreal, and to become a fashion-victim of that can’t have a happy ending.
“Accordingly, people who stop short of completely screwing up their bodies with genital amputation and radical hormone treatments are still subject to sexual promptings of the type associated with their cellular DNA. ”
You can take all the hormones in the world and you will still be unable to change your cellular DNA. Stop the hormones and you revert back to what would be a freak who has been forever mutilated.
Treatments for many health problems are female/male specific. Our organs are different. And there have not been any long term studies to see what happens when you overload your body with hormones all of your life. I suspect it will not be pretty.
That imagery was rather Island of Dr. Moreau-ish.
Edit: I just looked up some of the perversions of Ancient Rome and realize we have been here before.
If a man tells me he’s a woman, or a woman tells me she’s a man, my first impulse is to laugh; my second is to question their sanity. If a supposedly neutral observer supports such a spurious claim, my first impulse is to laugh at their naivety–or is it stupidity? My second is to question their motives. If a bureaucracy backs such a preposterous notion as transgender, my impulse is to worry that I’m being governed by fools, or worse, cultural Marxists who actively support such blather to further their power. In no case do I respect anyone’s so-called right to claim to be something they clearly are not. That we live in an age that would presume to punish me for this is all the evidence I need to conclude . . . our society is doomed.
Show me an ugly girl and I’ll show you a….
Hell,I self identify as a ring tailed lemur/and you do have to accept that!
That said,questioning me sanity/thought process is also a reasonable action,but non the less,I am a ring tailed lemur dammit!
I’m a unicorn, wheeee!
I identify as a lime-green crayola crayon.
Not only did we close most of the asylums, we have made it _unfashionable_ to treat the mentally ill!
Reality wins; play your games as you like, those of us who remain sane are pitying you.
And if this keeps up, it could be the end of ‘women’s sports’
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/10/biological_male_wins_female_world_cycling_championship.html
It will be the end of women’s sports, since women cannot possibly compete with men. Some feminists have even sounded the alarm on this obvious fact, to no avail.
Sounds like a whole lot of hooey to me suitable for the tabloid journals at the check out counters or in the pages of a Larry Flynt publication . It’s all sexual exploitation stemming from mental and emotional disorders . It involves so few people in our society just let it go . Load them up with hormones and surgically give them what they want . Like a herion addict there will never be enough and eventually they will find some place to exist or die . Winds like a cheap win win to me .
Now back to how really fucked up our nation and its economy is like $7 trillion short for government employees pensions . All the dick wacking and mental masterbation in the world won’t make that up ! But the ever present “THEY” will keep stroking it till it shrivels up and dies ! Almost Done !
There was another quote I liked from Chris Hedge’s 2009 book “Empire of Lies”. I’m fairly certain it was in the chapter entitled “The Illusion of Happiness”. It was this:
“Positive Psychology gives an academic patina to fantasy.”
The Hedges book was titled “Empire of Illusion”. He is obviously hostile towards Christianity but I give him credit for recognizing, nearly a decade ago, the eventual rise of a Trump figure in politics.
“The rage bubbling up from our impoverished and disenfranchised working class presages a looming and dangerous right-wing backlash. I spent two years traveling the country to write a book on the Christian Right called American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America. I visited former manufacturing towns where for many the end of the world is no longer an abstraction. They have lost hope. Fear and instability have plunged the working classes into profound personal and economic despair, and, not surprisingly, into the arms of the demagogues and charlatans of the radical Christian Right who offer a belief in magic, miracles, and the fiction of a utopian Christian nation. And unless we rapidly re-enfranchise our dispossessed workers into the economy, unless we give them hope, our democracy is doomed.”
Those dispossessed, those hopeless, they know who ruined their lives. It wasn’t their neighbors next door, similarly preoccupied with work, children, bills; it wasn’t the guy down the road, trying to grow food and failing to make the farm note. It wasn’t the people who drove trucks, built housing, dug ore and smelted metals, made machinery and cleaned the floors; it wasn’t the ones who healed the sick, tended the incapable elderly, sold the dry goods and led decent, honorable lives.
They know who victimized them; and the accounting, although slow and patient, will demand every drop of blood and every stolen dollar be returned, with unholy interest. Those who are left standing after the next conflict will not demand respect; but they will have earned it, over and over again, until their enemies realize that laws do not cancel reality.
Just saw this Vodka. Evidently, great minds think alike. I posted a similar prediction from Hedges’ book over on Admin’s “Sunsets, Sunrises and Shamrock” article:
Although Hedges’ view on the Christian Right is debatable, he did correctly assess the financial elite’s plundering of U.S. manufacturing and Bathhouse Barry’s (and the Left’s) error in abandoning the American working man for identity politics.
In retrospect, Trump seemed inevitable, no?