Posted on 04/26/2015 11:35:09 AM PDT by Kaslin
This past Friday night, I tweeted out, “My heart goes out to Bruce Jenner, & when he says, ‘I am a woman,’ I hear him saying, ‘I am deeply confused & hurting.’ Let's pray for him!” The responses to this tweet were as ugly and profane as anything I have ever seen. Why the extreme and even irrational hostility?
Some of the tweets included these gems:
"f--- you you disgusting saliva gerbil" (to be honest, I’ve never been called that before)
"you cranky scheming mustachio'd clown" (this was also a new one)
“F--- YOU. I don’t have the patience for this nonsense anymore. You are the epitome of everything that’s wrong here.”
Why such vitriol?
Look again at what I posted.
It was grounded in love, and I simply expressed what I heard in Bruce Jenner’s words, calling for prayer.
Some of the tweets were so profane that to quote them here would be of no use, since almost every word would have to be censored. But there were plenty of others that, while using better language, were just as ugly:
“you are a horrible human being”
“you’re disgusting”
“And all i hear is a bigoted old man who is scared to even think that a person may be different than him.”
Later in the evening, in response to some comments others had made (there were some who were not as nasty in their tweets), I asked why the trans advocates discredited those who regretted sex-change surgery or who now believed that you cannot change your gender, posting some relevant links as well.
Then on Saturday, I made this comment: “Who said that being a man or a woman is determined by how one feels? Since when are biology & genetics meaningless?”
In response to this, one young man wrote, “YOU’RE LITERALLY SO IGNORANT? Why is your mentality stuck in the 60’s, move forward with time to now this stuff happens.”
How do we deal with such moral madness? How do we even begin to interact with this social insanity that exalts subjective feelings and denies verifiable reality?
As followers of Jesus, we must be gracious and loving towards those who identity as transgender. And as I’ve said many times before, we need to have great compassion on the children who struggle with gender identity issues, continuing to do our best to get to the root causes of these issues with the goal of providing a way for them and their families to find wholeness without the need for lifelong hormones and sex-change surgery.
But the fact is that Bruce Jenner is not a woman, and it is not hateful to say so.
If he were a woman, he would not have been able to father all of his children, nor would he need female hormones to feminize his body.
That doesn’t mean he doesn’t feel like he’s a woman. It simply means he’s not a woman.
Yet today, even to utter those words is to put oneself in the crosshairs of ugly and vile attacks.
Of course, trans people and their allies will remind us of the terrible struggles they endure, of their very high suicide rates, of their being rejected to the point of homelessness as a result of societal stigmas, at times violently assaulted.
And so, the moment you take issue with transgender activism, you are accused of pouring salt in the wounds, of causing more suicides, of deeply hurting precious, sensitive people.
I truly understand this, and I don’t minimize the pain that many of these individuals have lived with.
I’m simply pointing out that the vicious responses to my tweet point to an irrational hatred and anger more than to a caring disagreement, making clear that this is part of a larger ideological struggle in which those of us who hold to biblical marriage and morality and who celebrate gender distinctions will be vilified by those who reject those values.
Ironically, LGBT advocates constantly criticize us for holding to clear gender distinctions, telling us that we are being bigoted and stereotyped.
“After all,” they argue, “who says that boys should play with footballs and girls with princess dolls? That is so sexist and out of date.”
Yet when a little boy chooses princess dolls over footballs, those same advocates say, “It’s obvious that he is really a she!”
In the same way, when Bruce Jenner tells Diane Sawyer he thinks the way a woman would think, he’s not accused of gender stereotyping. Instead, he’s celebrated for recognizing his real gender. And on and on it goes.
I truly believe that, in the coming years, our society will come back to its senses (but with greater sensitivity to the struggles endured by trans-identified people).
But for now, while walking in love towards all, we must stiffen our spines, stand up for what is right, be fervent in prayer, and continue to speak the truth, knowing that ultimately, truth will triumph.
And let’s remember to pray for God’s very best for Bruce Jenner.
Did Jenner take Roids? That might have had some impact.
And Christianity. They’ve already emptied the descriptive word “Christianity” of real meaning to the broader public, so now they’re working on the descriptive word “evangelical”. Apparently there are few enough fundamentalists that they were just able to throw us in the mix with radical Islam and write us off in the eyes of the public, with people who decapitate those who won’t convert.
During the blowup back in January over the suicide of Josh Alcorn (aka "Leelah"), I asked an SJW on Twitter, if I put on green makeup and fake stitches and claimed to be Frankenstein's monster, what should people do? She answered that if that was my sincere belief, then people should treat me as if I was Frankenstein's monster.
So yes—if you sincerely believe you're an elephant, then as far as the SJWs are concerned, the matter is settled. I guess we need to follow you around with a big bag of peanuts and a shovel.
You cannot reason with such people. Some dude claims, "Hey, everyone, I'm a chick now," and suddenly the logic fuse in everyone's brain gets blown and they all fall over themselves to affirm this new "woman" that didn't exist thirty seconds earlier. Transgenderism is today's most extraordinary popular delusion. We are seeing the story of the emperor's new clothes played out live, right in front of us.
Ah....now you’ve touched a nerve. In the wake of the collapse of the Berlin wall and files showed almost every East German athlete had doped which would have disqualified literally hundreds of medalists the IOC in their wisdom declined to do so since it would have been very messy. In the case of Ben Johnson they said he was caught red handed so to speak and there had been a judicial inquiry which wasn’t the case with the East Germans who all whizzed by the tests at the time.
Remember when "I'm a lesbian trapped in a man's body" used to be a somewhat funny joke? You can't tell the @#$% difference between reality and satire anymore.
And of course, no, it doesn't make him a "lesbian," because contrary to the word salad he uses to express his feelings, he's not a woman either. Jenner's talking complete gibberish.
Which of course now begs the question, Was Jenner doping as well?
I deeply, deeply wish Bruce Jenner could have a period for 7-10 days every month for the rest of his life.
They know that if they follow their ‘logic” all the way to where it leads, it will lead to insanity so they now have to pretend that the insane are the sane ones. It’s not just a trope that leftism is insanity.
Isn’t that the truth. I guess it’s a mercy that he can never get pregnant, though that’s not slowing the sodomites down as regards warping kids.
Mrs. Garrison: Hello doctor, looks like I need an abortion. [sits on the chair and puts his feet on the stirrups]
Doctor: ...an abortion?
Mrs. Garrison: Yeah, I’ve got one growing inside me. Now, are you gonna scramble its brains or just vacuum it out? [a nurse arrives and her jaw drops] ...If you want you can just scramble it and I’ll queef it out myself.
Doctor: Mmister Garrison-
Mrs. Garrison: [correcting him] Mrs. Garrison.
Doctor: Mmrs. Garrison, you can’t have an abortion.
Mrs. Garrison: Don’t you tell me what I can and can’t do with my body! [gets up, goes to the nurse, and hugs her] A woman has a right to choose!
Doctor: No, I mean you’re physically unable to have an abortion, because you can’t get pregnant.
Mrs. Garrison: But I missed my period.
Doctor: You can’t have periods either. [Mrs. Garrison looks surprised] You had a sex change, Mr. Garrison, but you don’t have ovaries or a womb. You don’t produce eggs.
Mrs. Garrison: [sits down] You mean, I’ll never know what it feels like to have a baby growing inside me and then scramble its brains and vacuum it out?
Doctor: N-that’s right.
Mrs. Garrison: But I paid five thousand dollars to be a woman. This would mean I I’m not really a woman. Ih, I’m just a... a I’m just a guy with a mutilated penis!
Doctor: Basically, yes.
Mrs. Garrison: ...Oh boy, do I feel like a jackass.
Jenner is a very disturbed person, like all “transsexuals.” They have a hugely high suicide rate, and many of them also attempt to have the process reversed a few only a few years after they have done it.
I feel bad for the man. He was screwed up, and the media and the gay movement took advantage of this. I’d say, just pray for him and let it go at that. He’s not a happy soul.
Unfortunately the success of the East German doping machine and their ability to dope and win medals pretty much puts almost every medalist under suspicion at least during the period they competed and probably since that time as well. The East Germans competed from 1968 to 1988. During that time in both winter and summer games they won 203 gold 192 silver and 177 bronze.
I wonder if he’ll want all his children to call him “Mother,” now.
If I spend enough time in my garage, will I morph into a car?
That seems to be the problem, doesn’t it?
If he “thinks” he’s Napoleon, we’re allowed to (in a hidden sense) chuckle and rightly label him crazy or at least mentally disturbed. The courts have no jurisdiction over that.
If he “thinks” he’s a spider, the same things apply. People would rightly and gently try to correct him.
But if he “thinks” he’s a woman well then all of the rest of us are crazy. We are all demented and cruel and self absorbed, etc, etc, etc. It is we who need the “treatment”.
deeply, deeply wish Bruce Jenner could have a period for 7-10 days every month for the rest of his life.
That right there is mean.
I hope that I stay on your good side.
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Oh, there was a thread yesterday where a few Freepers were wailing and saying we were intolerant bullies for calling Jenner what he is. “His brain is wired that way”....yeah, isn’t that what the left has been saying about queers all along?
Pedophiles say they’re born that way, too.
Wow. That was good.
Yes, he's mentally ill, and he needs help, and prayer. I agree with you there.
But I refuse to absolve him. He chose to perform in front of the entire world, to try and portray his perversion as just another option.
He's disturbed, but so are homoesexuals, and we don't give them a pass.
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