FYI on comment threads: I banned someone from commenting here, and refunded her, because she pretended to be offended because I sometimes swear (as if anyone who followed me on Twitter or has read my Substack could have failed to notice this) and then pulled a stunt my parents pulled, diagnosing me with a disorder that they themselves actually had. I have made absolutely no secret of my psychiatric diagnoses. Indeed, I comment on them with great regularity. The idea that whipping out an amateur diagnosis that's inaccurate will work to make me pretend that a stupid argument is anything but stupid is silly, but then again, this is the internet.
I likewise refunded someone a couple of days ago, a smarmy asshole who pretends to believe that children don't have a biological sex. That anyone could imagine arguing to *me* that children aren't fully human would go over well is farcical. After he started that crap here I was notified by more than one person that going from female writer to female writer engaging in sophistry to gain the fuel of replies is one of his years-long habits. Ain't nobody got time for that.
Both of their emails now go straight to trash without being seen by me, but narcissists gonna narcissist, so it's likely that one or both of them will turn up here again. I'll keep an eye on it and keep refunding and banning until they get the point.
Great read. Straight to the point. It can be maddening to hear people talk as if the whole non-binary thing is real. I think some of our disgust with this comes from those of us who never fit into those stereotypes to begin with and so we reject the "identity" people are now placing on others like us.
I think the point here is that the man's motives were being portrayed in the media as anti LGBTQ, but since he identifies as PART of the LGBTQ community, obviously the reality is a bit more complicated than the Narrative. Not that many aspects of the community are contradictory and rely on stereotypes, which they are and do.
One day, probably not that far into the future, if we've survived the idiocy that seems to prevail, this gender fantasy stuff will be relegated to the same category as witch trials, tulip bulb mania, dancing mania and all the other nonsense humans can find to cause trouble. The human capacity to be absurd is never-ending.
This is beautifully logical and clear. In several non-American cultures, it’s common for male friends to hold hands, as just one example. In Israel, everyone serves in the military regardless of gender. I love baking and sewing but I’ve also built a deck. My husband was in the police and the military but he also knows how to knit. There’s an awesome male YouTuber I follow called The Quilting Marine: he quilts as a therapeutic art to deal with his PTSD.
When supposedly progressive people insult “normies” with this kind of language manipulation, I instinctively feel like, fuck off.
But, I assumed that he (or his lawyers) claimed it to get sympathy from the public and the courts. Is that what you mean by trolling? B/c i think of trolling as something else, and i think of the sympathy, and lesser punishment, that he could acheive to be quite a reasonable expectation. Doesn't he have a real chance to be incarcerated for life with women rather than men? Colorado doesn't appear to have a death penalty.
Also, i glanced at a Matt Walsh comment where said something like (paraphrased!) "_I_ don't have to agree that he is non-binary, but you loons that believe in the concept certainly do". Which I'm somewhat sympathic to as offhand snark, but agree that it is a complete waste of time to argue about what any of that means. Because, per above, you would be arguing about nonsense.
Succinctly put. ‘News’ media has long since thrived on making ‘news’ rather than reporting it clearly, so the last thing that they would want is to downplay any narratives are getting traction. Yell, whine, point fingers in righteous indignation, yes, but never dismiss the noise as the sound made by the epidemic of narcissism in its insatiable quest for being seen as special. The people would be far better served if the 24-hour news programming was cut to 30 minutes a day.
The people who've been pushing the assertion gender is on a spectrum, there's an infinite number to choose from, and if you disagree you're the devel, are the same people who are questioning whether the Q shooter is faking as a legal strategy, and he isn't really non-binary - they never question anyone else's assertion. Plus, there's evidence "Mx." Aldrich isn't a new persona.
Maintaining the approved narrative is as much of an obsession to Democrats as the Ring is to Gollum - my precious.
FYI on comment threads: I banned someone from commenting here, and refunded her, because she pretended to be offended because I sometimes swear (as if anyone who followed me on Twitter or has read my Substack could have failed to notice this) and then pulled a stunt my parents pulled, diagnosing me with a disorder that they themselves actually had. I have made absolutely no secret of my psychiatric diagnoses. Indeed, I comment on them with great regularity. The idea that whipping out an amateur diagnosis that's inaccurate will work to make me pretend that a stupid argument is anything but stupid is silly, but then again, this is the internet.
I likewise refunded someone a couple of days ago, a smarmy asshole who pretends to believe that children don't have a biological sex. That anyone could imagine arguing to *me* that children aren't fully human would go over well is farcical. After he started that crap here I was notified by more than one person that going from female writer to female writer engaging in sophistry to gain the fuel of replies is one of his years-long habits. Ain't nobody got time for that.
Both of their emails now go straight to trash without being seen by me, but narcissists gonna narcissist, so it's likely that one or both of them will turn up here again. I'll keep an eye on it and keep refunding and banning until they get the point.
Thanks Holly for shaking this out and for calling it as it is!
Great read. Straight to the point. It can be maddening to hear people talk as if the whole non-binary thing is real. I think some of our disgust with this comes from those of us who never fit into those stereotypes to begin with and so we reject the "identity" people are now placing on others like us.
I think the point here is that the man's motives were being portrayed in the media as anti LGBTQ, but since he identifies as PART of the LGBTQ community, obviously the reality is a bit more complicated than the Narrative. Not that many aspects of the community are contradictory and rely on stereotypes, which they are and do.
One day, probably not that far into the future, if we've survived the idiocy that seems to prevail, this gender fantasy stuff will be relegated to the same category as witch trials, tulip bulb mania, dancing mania and all the other nonsense humans can find to cause trouble. The human capacity to be absurd is never-ending.
This is beautifully logical and clear. In several non-American cultures, it’s common for male friends to hold hands, as just one example. In Israel, everyone serves in the military regardless of gender. I love baking and sewing but I’ve also built a deck. My husband was in the police and the military but he also knows how to knit. There’s an awesome male YouTuber I follow called The Quilting Marine: he quilts as a therapeutic art to deal with his PTSD.
When supposedly progressive people insult “normies” with this kind of language manipulation, I instinctively feel like, fuck off.
I identify as quaternary, and I can prove it.
I’m often told that I’m unreal.
Thank you! I've been screaming this at the TV since I first heard!
Non-binary is definitely nonsense.
But, I assumed that he (or his lawyers) claimed it to get sympathy from the public and the courts. Is that what you mean by trolling? B/c i think of trolling as something else, and i think of the sympathy, and lesser punishment, that he could acheive to be quite a reasonable expectation. Doesn't he have a real chance to be incarcerated for life with women rather than men? Colorado doesn't appear to have a death penalty.
Also, i glanced at a Matt Walsh comment where said something like (paraphrased!) "_I_ don't have to agree that he is non-binary, but you loons that believe in the concept certainly do". Which I'm somewhat sympathic to as offhand snark, but agree that it is a complete waste of time to argue about what any of that means. Because, per above, you would be arguing about nonsense.
Succinctly put. ‘News’ media has long since thrived on making ‘news’ rather than reporting it clearly, so the last thing that they would want is to downplay any narratives are getting traction. Yell, whine, point fingers in righteous indignation, yes, but never dismiss the noise as the sound made by the epidemic of narcissism in its insatiable quest for being seen as special. The people would be far better served if the 24-hour news programming was cut to 30 minutes a day.
The people who've been pushing the assertion gender is on a spectrum, there's an infinite number to choose from, and if you disagree you're the devel, are the same people who are questioning whether the Q shooter is faking as a legal strategy, and he isn't really non-binary - they never question anyone else's assertion. Plus, there's evidence "Mx." Aldrich isn't a new persona.
Maintaining the approved narrative is as much of an obsession to Democrats as the Ring is to Gollum - my precious.
Thank you so much for your first point: non-binary vs. binary is in fact, a binary lol.