Posted on 04/21/2015 6:43:21 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
That is the visual I just don't need.
Doctor T-Bone concurs completely.
Pathologies like this do not spring from a vacuum.
Yes, “Sexual Personae” saved me from feminism. Thank goodness for Paglia’s ego. She is one of the few lesbians out there who is comfortable enough with who she is that she hasn’t joined the crusade to deny reality most of her ilk are on. I suppose Tammy Bruce would fit that category as well. It takes bravery to be honest when your emotions function outside of nature’s law.
When women are welding steel on skyscrapers and cleaning sewers in equal numbers as men, then we can say we have gender parity. But I don’t see women volunteering to be ditch diggers and construction workers.
And to think people ridicule Tom Cruise and Scientology for their hatred of psychotherapy.
In a day not that far down the road, this is coming to our towns and we need to know how to respond when moms and dads bring their “transgendered kindergartners” to school.
Use liberal logic — Paglia is a good example — to get inside liberal heads and show them how they are being inconsistent with their own views.
This girl may well be a tomboy. Why should a budding future feminist be given a message that being male is better than being female? After all, can't women do traditionally male things?
Perhaps these parents have a problem with “internalized male chauvinism.” Instead of celebrating their daughter's desire to be a woman doing traditionally male things, they secretly still value men more than women, and need to accept that men and women are equal, so women don't need to change into men.
I'm not saying that will work. More than bad logic is going on when parents want to change the gender of a kindergartner. But sometimes liberals spend so much time in their own narrow liberal world that they've never run into a conservative who seriously challenges their views and can create “cognitive dissonance.”
But at an absolute minimum, making arguments like that may help keep other people from following the confused parents down their path.
There is a certain hypocrisy for saying there’s no difference between men and women for physical performance and psychology, but that a man can have a woman’s brain - and is treated by mutilating the body to match the mind instead of treating the mental illness.
There was a TV discussion on the kindergarteners read the book “I am Jazz”, a book about a “transgender” boy who says “I’m a girl”.
The conservative said it was bad because kids can’t handle these ideas, that children can’t make life-altering decisions like this and parents had the right to be informed.
The liberal’s objection was that it was typifying girls’ brains and boys’ brains, when they’re trying to say there is no difference - plus it was furthering stereotypes that girls like dolls and fru-fru clothing and boys like sports, while there are plenty of straight women who like sports and men who cook.
Since most liberals do not base their beliefs on acceptance of a formally adopted written Constitution, or (in the case of moral matters which are not the province of government) acceptance of a written Scripture “to be the rule of faith and life,” it's hard to see how it could be any other way. A liberal may well have core values which he or she sincerely believes, but if those values come in conflict with what is perceived to be proper “political correctness,” it's hard for someone who does not have a formal written authority external to him- or herself to know how to handle those contradictions and conflicts.
Presuppositions count. Forcing liberals to re-examine their actions and understand the presuppositions which led them to those actions can produce interesting results as observers, and sometimes the liberals themselves, realize they are being inconsistent.
Creating “cognitive dissonance” can work.
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