Posted on 07/10/2016 8:10:00 AM PDT by Kaslin
Hundreds of innocent people have been slaughtered by IslamoNazis, our national debt is greater than our GDP, and much of the national political dialogue is about men who identify as women and vice versa, and which pronouns we must use to address them. Were insane.
I dont claim to be an expert on what its like to be transgendered, but I also dont care. I dont give one steaming pile of damn how you want to, or feel compelled to, live your life as long as you dont hurt anyone else and I dont have to subsidize it.
As far as Im concerned, trans people can live by the Almond Joy vs. Mounds mentality sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you dont and its no one elses business. My problem comes in when you expect me to deny reality.
People are free to deny reality all they want. Smokers can puff away and delude themselves into thinking there wont be any negative health effects to them I just dont care. Theyre lying, but theyre lying only to themselves.
When it comes to transgendered people, theyre lying to the world, which is also fine. But they are demanding the world accept that lie as truth and lie back to them. Thats where you lose me.
You tell me your name is Jennifer and youve got a 5 oclock shadow, Im going to think something is a bit off. Its not societys oppression engrained in me; its nature.
It doesnt matter how you feel about reality, its not fluid it just is. And your dislike of a fact doesnt make it any less of a fact.
So if I meet you and you tell me your name is Jennifer, even with a full beard, Ill call you Jennifer. But if one day youre Bob and the next youre Bertha, then youre Bob again, there are going to be issues. And those issues are yours to deal with, not everyone elses.
Thats the concept behind gender fluid, the idea that you can be one or the other, or neither and both, on any given day at any given time. If that is not some sort of disorder, there are no disorders. And dont read disorder as bad; disorders arent bad, they just are.
In the hilarious movie Arsenic and Old Lace, Cary Grants brother saw himself as Teddy Roosevelt. That was a disorder. He wasnt evil because of it. He wasnt shunned because of it. But he wasnt Teddy Roosevelt because of it either.
It may seem like transgendered people are everywhere, especially if you watch TV. But theres nothing suggesting theyre more than a tiny fraction of the population, less than 1 percent. That doesnt mean they should be oppressed, but that doesnt give them license to oppress either. Yet thats where were heading.
Our Founding Fathers were quite conscious of the prospect of the tyranny of the majority the majority of Americans simply imposing their will on others because they had the votes. Thats partly why the Founders created a limited, constitutional federal government.
But we now live in a world of the tyranny of the minority where cities are instituting laws prescribing the pronouns a person must use when addressing another human being. There is no code to go by on this. The rules arent based in reality, or even the progressive holy grail of junk science masquerading as science. They are based solely on the desires of the person to whom you are referring.
Call a man who thinks hes a woman he, and you risk punishment and a pretty hefty fine. If Bertha wants to be referred to by a made-up pronoun, such as Xe, you must comply or face sanction. Its akin to demanding Cary Grants brother actually IS Teddy Roosevelt. Hes not, nor will he ever be.
I can only imagine how awful it is to feel youve been born wrong, but thats how you were born. No one on earth had anything to do with it, and there are surgical ways to (sort of) change it. If thats what you want, knock yourself out. But if youre not willing to make the commitment, dont expect others to.
Call it the Tuck Rule. There are people who tuck in every shirt, and others who dont tuck in any shirt. Its weird when they switch for a day and then go back, but if they switch and remain consistent, we get used to it pretty quickly. What they dont get is to demand everyone else praise their attire every day and tell them they look good no matter how they look.
The concept of fluidity means an ability to adapt, to change. If how you want to be referred to changes, regularly or at all, perhaps you should learn to adapt to the fact that thats not normal and people arent mind readers. Being different doesnt make you special. No one is special simply by existing. You become special by what you do.
Itd be nice if leftists stopped trying to impose their will on matters that, quite honestly, dont matter in the grand scheme of things and focused on what really does. But there are political points to be scored, money to be raised and, most importantly, government power to be expanded in pursuit of social justice.
If you honestly think any Democratic politician gives a damn about this as anything more than a distraction from what really matters, well, youre reality fluid.
"In republics, it is a fundamental principle that the majority govern, and that the minority comply with the general voice. A single state can rise up, and put a veto upon the most important public measures. A single state has controlled the general voice of the Union; a minority, a very small minority, has governed us. it is, in effect, the worst species of monarchy."
Oliver Ellsworth
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