Posted on 01/31/2021 6:57:28 AM PST by Kaslin
A few years ago, while serving as academic dean, I met with a professor who had been accused of racial discrimination. He was stunned. “I don’t understand how this could happen,” he said. “My progressive credentials are impeccable.”
For the record, I don’t believe he was guilty. But his answer told me far more about the mindset of the left than about his actions. For leftists, intentions always trump behavior and even consequences. Regardless of what actually happens, if they meant well, then they were clearly on the side of the angels. This same courtesy is never extended to conservatives, who are simply presumed to be malevolent—even if the outcomes are ultimately positive.
As a practical matter, that means leftists can do practically anything without serious repercussions as long as their intentions are good—as long as their “progressive credentials” are sufficiently on display. Witness the passes issued to people like Hillary and Bill Clinton, James Comey, Peter Strzok, and John Brennan for behavior that would have gotten the average person tossed in jail—or worse, banned from Twitter. Because they were supposedly opposing “white supremacy” or “fascism” or something, their actions were deemed by progressives to be justified, even heroic.
Which brings us to Joe Biden, whose serial creepiness toward women and girls, not to mention a credible allegation of sexual assault, have all been swept under the rug because he is ostensibly “on their side.” He is a “supporter of women,” whatever that means. From that lofty position, he can with impunity and even adulation inflict upon women the ultimate indignity:
He can cancel them altogether.
That is the logical extension of Biden’s Executive Order on “transgender rights,” issued his first day on the job. In that EO, he essentially declared that, as far as the law is concerned, men can be women. And in doing so, he utterly wiped out an entire category of human beings known for centuries as “women.” For, as Matt Walsh and others have persuasively argued, if anyone can be a woman, the distinction, the designation itself, becomes meaningless.
In my last column, I pointed out that this will destroy women’s sports, taking athletic opportunities intended for females and giving them to males instead. Unfortunately, the problem goes far beyond sports. It will ultimately affect every aspect of women’s lives.
For decades, feminists have argued that “it’s a man’s world” in which women are often subjected to discrimination, especially in certain areas. There is certainly some truth to that. (Again, I speak as a father and grandfather who wants my daughter, daughters-in-law, and granddaughters to be able to go as far in life as their talent and effort will take them, unhindered by artificial barriers). The solution has been special hiring and recruiting initiatives aimed at women in traditionally male-dominated fields, like science and engineering. (A generation ago, it was law and medicine—and look where we are now, with more females than males entering those professions).
But if anyone can be a woman, such initiatives are pointless. Just as a six-foot, 160-pound boy who can’t get off the bench for his high school basketball team can suddenly declare himself a girl and become a star—and don’t think that won’t happen—so a man who struggles to compete for a job or a seat in graduate school can take advantage of programs intended for women simply by proclaiming himself to be one, elbowing aside the very people who were meant to benefit.
Say a corporation decides it wants to promote more women into management positions. Most of us would consider that a lofty goal. Today, however, a man who might not have been promoted based on merit can move up several places in line just by “identifying” as a woman. The company must now consider him; by its own standard, it cannot do otherwise. How is that fair to anyone, either the women or the other men in the organization?
But it’s even worse than that. In any endeavor that requires more brains than brawn, women can certainly compete with men, including men who are faux women. However, we all know that “woke” companies will soon be falling all over themselves to burnish their progressive credentials, and thus keep the mob at bay by hiring as many people as possible from this newest victim group. That’s how wokeness works. As a result, women will again be forced to take a backseat to men—in this case, men pretending to be women.
To be clear, I recognize that a tiny handful of men suffer from gender dysphoria, genuinely believing they’re women. I sympathize. But that doesn’t make them women. More to the point, Biden’s EO is highly susceptible to abuse by men who merely desire the perks associated with being classified as women: preference in hiring or admissions, physical dominance, access to women’s bathrooms and showers. Proponents of “transgender rights” might scoff, insisting that sort of thing would never happen. But logically it could happen, and common sense tells us that if it can, it almost certainly will. (And, in fact, it already has happened.)
To comprehend the scope of the potential problem, simply substitute race for sex. Surely it’s more plausible for someone to say they’re Black or Native American based on a smidgeon of DNA (just ask Elizabeth Warren) than for someone who genetically is fully male to claim they’re female. Yet how long would the left tolerate an obviously white person who insisted they were Black just to win a government contract designated for a minority-owned business? Or one who claimed to be Native American in order to get a plum teaching job?
Well, never mind. The point is, most of us wouldn’t tolerate that sort of thing, and we shouldn’t. Nor should we tolerate a president, particularly one of dubious legitimacy, who abrogates women’s rights to safety, privacy, and equal treatment—who effectively cancels womanhood—with the stroke of a pen.
This is how they will get women into men’s professional sports.
TRUE. Sniffer prefers the youngins.
The next Olympics will be a joke. Weirdos on parade.
I have noticed this about lie-berals too. They hide behind their “good intentions.”
“His heart was in the right place!”
“She meant well.”
“I think deep, down, I am a good person.”
There is a secular proverb that is always true:
“The skids to hell are greased with good intentions”
Simply put: The demented, the delusional and the bizarre have seized power. The most bizarre are establishing domestic policy. The delusional globalists are in charge of foreign ( soon to be a forbidden word) policy. The demented, corrupt Biden is the pliable figurehead. The result will be impoverishment of the American people and more wars. The American nation is at risk.
"To be clear, I recognize that a tiny handful of men suffer from gender dysphoria mental illness."
There, fixed it!
“Dr” Jill willingly stepped into the gender mess, slapping down femiNazis in the process.
She looked like the bane of a feminist’s existence....”a housewife”....when she was photo-oped bring cookies to the Ntl Guard.
Not a good Biden image for the (cough) progressive women’s movement.
We have already CANCELLED BIDEN! You cant cancel anything
I love the conflict that this reveals. On one hand women are given special rights, like the right to their own sports team because men, collectively, are better at certain sports than women, collectively.
On the other hand, the trans group demands the right to declare oneself any sex one wants, and forces everyone to accept that under penalty of the law.
The two cannot coexist. It’s one or the other, not both. But both exist and demand to have their way, or else. I love seeing how brain-dead people try to manage the conflict, and fail.
PS. The guy is guilty of sexual harassment by the simple fact that he is a male.
FR doesn’t allow posts from Zerohedge, but it had a funny piece about the jobs that pipeline workers could get now that Biden destroyed theirs. One was installing urinals in women’s bathrooms. I wouldn’t put it past the Biden dolts to think that is a great idea.
Men who declare they are women can also refuse to sign up for the draft?
Transgenderism falls into two categories. One category is those men who hate who they are and have some serious mental issues and have latched onto the idea that if they were female, all of their problems would go away and they would be happy. The other category is those men who sexually fantasize about being women. In neither case do transgenders genuinely think they are women with an extra part.
I read an article by a psychologist who treated transgenders. He said that whenever he would start deep-diving into their disorders, they never actually showed interest in topics that interest women. (For example, transgenders NEVER talk about menstruation, which is a common enough topic of conversation among women.) This shows that they like the idea of being women, but do not truly think or identify as women.
To comprehend the scope of the potential problem, simply substitute race for sex. Surely it’s more plausible for someone to say they’re Black or Native American based on a smidgeon of DNA (just ask Elizabeth Warren) than for someone who genetically is fully male to claim they’re female. Yet how long would the left tolerate an obviously white person who insisted they were Black just to win a government contract designated for a minority-owned business? Or one who claimed to be Native American in order to get a plum teaching job?
I would really like to see people take greater advantage of these preferences. With DNA testing services like Ancestry.com or 23andMe, a lot of people who appear white can show that they have some minority ancestry. For example, I have 1-2% ancestry from the Bantu tribe of southern Africa, so I could legitimately say that I am a minority and get government contract preferences as a woman, a minority, and a disabled veteran (in other words, that contract is MINE). The reality is that giving preferences is discriminatory.
If we have so many genders how come the chi-rona only attacks men and women?
That was from the Babylon Bee this morning.
I always thought this quote sounded over-the-top coming from the mouth of a fictional Leftist author, but Biden's handlers seem to be making it come true - if indirectly.
Look at Ward Churchill, the leftist skank who claimed to be “native American”. We should all claim to be something we’re not just to crash this evil system.
I have no answer for that. None. I’m only aware of two genders, representing people who have a Y chromosome, and people who do not.
It’s funny because my brothers did DNA testing and were given results that say they have some northern African heritage. Our uncle did the testing, and his results are almost identical yet without the African genes. His results linked him to my brothers but said he was a potential cousin. There’s no doubt about his paternity nor my father’s paternity. We all thought there would be some evidence of northern African DNA.
Isn’t that sexisis. LOL
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