Posted on 06/04/2015 10:29:51 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Judging from the new cover of Vanity Fair, it appears that Bruce Jenner’s highly publicized transformation to purported womanhood has finally reached its climax. The title reads, “Call me Caitlyn.” The actual meaning? “Call me woman.”
As we’ve seen in recent months, the transgender movement sees itself as the next civil-rights frontier. It clearly hopes to copy the LGBT movement in winning public approval by securing more and more media exposure. But as the movement makes its public appeal, some internal contradictions in liberal sexual ideology are quickly emerging. One major contradiction looms large for the transgender movement, and it deserves attention.
The Deconstruction of Everything
For years, a major aim of the sexual revolution has been to deconstruct gender differences as being “social constructs,” mere cultural projections of what maleness and femaleness are and mean. This critique evacuated gender of any physical meaning and reduced it to an existential feeling—a feeling of being male or female, regardless of one’s sexual biology.
The effect of this critique has been to relativize gender, and thus to abolish it as a meaningful category. Because you can no longer tie “femaleness” to a normative set of traits or acts (for example, wearing dresses or marrying men), the category itself cannot help but lose its meaning. To call any particular act a “male” or “female” act would be to revert back to antiquated, repressive, patriarchal norms—norms that only serve to foster social inequality.
This is the ideology that governs liberal sexual philosophy, and it collides head-on with major aspects of the transgender movement. Transgenderism is unavoidably based on a kind of gender essentialism. It recognizes gender identities as being associated with certain socially accepted norms. What does it mean, for example, that Jenner’s “gender” is female?
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Um, no. No, it’s not.
It is being parlayed as a MAJOR score for the Left in the culture wars - a celebrity as part of the LBGTQABCDEFG agenda.
Listening to social media, especially among the Millenials, Jenner is a rallying flag - “Who Are You To Judge, mister Judgy-McJudgeJudge, you white homophobe!”
BTW, using words like “transition” “gay” etc. is feeding the liberals.
Just saying :)
“Bruised Gender.”
Mark Lamont Hill is “twit” quoted in this piece. I can’t figure out what “cis” means in his “twit”.
“Between the Vanity Fair spread and “she’s so pretty” convos, we’ve smuggled in the same old cis/Eurocentric narratives about womanhood.”
Mark, Bruce is a “white guy”, what was he supposed to do?
Bruce could have worn one of Hillary’s pantsuits I suppose.
And he’ll never get over Macho Grande.
Liberals big push today is redefining terms to control the language and frame the debate.
Jenner is one of them. He comes out and says he is the new normal. Bruce, you don’t get to redefine what normal is. A guy doing what you are doing, isn’t normal. It’s abnormal.
Marriage is what it is, it is not what the left is tryjng to redefine it as being. Gun violence is not due to more guns in law abiding citizens hands. Women make less than men for a whole host of reasons, nothing having to do with sexism. They want to get rid of the term illegal immigrant, well they are here illegally and they want to stay and work, so that fits them correctly. Terrorist, islamist and jihadist are terms the white house wont use and has told the DOD not to use anymore, but that’s what they are.
What’s the difference Jenner and any of the Drag Queens that inhabit big city gay bars?
He still wants to have sex with women. Sick is as sick does.
He’s as much a woman as this guy was a cat.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalking_Cat
If being transgender is - for MOST transgender persons - NOT a “mental illness” that can be fixed with drugs and treatment, but, as most transgender people say, a condition of a gender-specific mental state they were born with, and a body of the opposite gender, then THAT is an argument that gender identity is not socially fluid and dynamic, that there is a “female brain” and a “male brain” (if so, for reasons we do not yet understand).
The idea that there is a certain set of ideas of “being female” (or “male”) that is NOT socially derived but comes from the brain itself, puts some large chucks in the idea that “we are all the same”; and if not all the same, we cannot in every way imaginable be “equal” either, other than in some basic political rights.
No whacking yet.
He’s ruined that old joke, “I’m a Lesbian in a man’s body.” Turns out, he really IS.
All I see is a white version of Rupaul.
How about FrankenJenner
LOL!
After all these Years Chaz Bono still has her “lady parts”.
No sense of commitment. Very disappointing.
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