hmmm, forgive me if your comment (and the basis of this post, censoring a film) suggested that to me...
Once again, it all comes down to perspective.
One side says: "These are just vulnerable people who want to live in peace like anyone else. We should make gender self-identification the only qualification and treat these people in no ways different from other members of their self-declared group."
The other side says: "Our educational, medical and cultural institutions have all been captured by a political ideology that says the mammalian sex binary is an oppressive construct that needs to be dismantled. And this has led to absurdities like the inability to define 'Woman' and a campaign to make this standard pedagogy that cannot be debated."
I see both sides. I have no interest in the Walsh doc, it just seems like trolling to me, but I also believe he should be able to air it and people should be able to watch it if they wish.
There is another side. It's called the truth. Teachers and Professors are getting fired because they refuse to use gender pronouns that do not match a person's sex. They are being asked to lie. That is one problem. The other problem is allowing and perpetuating another person living out a lie. That is the most deceitful thing one person can do to another. Jump back several decades to when the medical profession would treat the very rare gender dysphoria person, not with hormones and surgeries but with mental, and emotional care. For me personally, saving souls is the far greater enduring kindness then bolstering a troubled sinner’s wrongful view of themselves.
It's much worse than using "pronouns." The cult attacks womanhood and parents, while there's no corresponding attack on maleness. There are plenty of us old school feminists around and we have no illusions about the intent of this cult, in spite of decades of attacks against "feminists" and being told there's no need to worry about our rights. We always keep a military as we don't take our national safety for granted. We understand human nature. But for those who are able to ignore cognitive dissonance, the rules magically change when it comes to females.
I would argue that the consistent (and older) attack of cis-hetero masculinity is definitely an attack on maleness. Has been ongoing, and continues.
What is different here is the degree to which the real physical safety and privacy of biological women is being attacked and violated, often with the imprimatur of the state. I'm not a fan of the pronoun nonsense or the anti-science attitudes put forth around the issue, but I believe it is the attack of biological women and womanhood--and these are two separate attack vectors; while biological men invade women's spaces and sports on one side, on the other they engage in misogynistic parodies of femininity and claim that their minstrel-show womanhood gives them claim to being females.
I'm not a fan of the "toxic masculinity" attack on boys, or the general hostility to maleness that comes from the left. But I'm appalled at the violation of womanhood and women's spaces that's been coming from the supposed "left"--and the paucity of men ready to stand up in defense of those spaces.
I've been doing what I can, one person at a time, to try and block the attack on boys with the ADD/ADHD malarkey and subsequent medicating into zombiehood, starting with our own son about 26 years ago. When that was tried to ram down our throats I educated myself on the topic. The babble from the left, cis-hetero and "biological" men and women, are meaningless words. Men and women are biological categories by definition, so no need to add "biological." There are plenty of men and women standing in defense of girls and women.
There are plenty of men and women standing up in defense of girls and women— I should have elaborated, as I find the number of liberals/progressives standing up in defense of girls and women when it comes to sports, incarceration, rape crisis centers, and so so on … oddly small.
Bravo. Mr Becker seems to miss the very real, disastrous harm from the gender cult. Women facing biological men in locker rooms and bathrooms, prisons, most of whom are not innocent drag queens but predators who get off being in woman’s clothing and largely misogynist’s. Or the female athletes who committed a lifetime training to then lose to a biological male. It’s all madness and needs to challenged. And if that offends someone, we’ll that’s too bad. Time once was we chose to be offended or not. But we are all allowed to express ourselves.
Thank you. One mistake often made talking about this is when there's much made about whether or not these dudes go into female private spaces with their parts intact. IT DOESN"T MATTER. They are still dudes and can still knock a woman around, with or without an appendage.
I had zero interest in the Walsh doc until this recent kerfuffle. Now I'm thinking about watching it. Not right now but maybe later. Eventually I'm going to want to see if it's all innocent and bland and inoffensive as Walsh's defenders suggests, or an evil film advocating oppression and filled with lies.
Like anyone else, you may "see both sides" in this matter, but the "other side" is correct, is Right, and that "campaign" is a threat to free thought and speech . . . to the very concept of truth. It's so Postmodern!
Like it or not, necromorphs have been yoked to the neo-Marxist agenda that seeks to destroy Western civilization in the name of the "liberation of the culturally marginalized." Pity the poor, confused person who just wanted to be left alone to pursue his own fantasies. He's been dragged into a fight by those who claim to be his liberator.
And any person on any color can say the same thing. The real white supremacy comes from the liberal left in their need to virtue signal. I'm hoping they start a trend where they self immolate against their own whiteness, inability to educate every other white person of their values, and just burn themselves. I hear three phase power works too.
Who is suggesting “Thou shalt not offend?”
hmmm, forgive me if your comment (and the basis of this post, censoring a film) suggested that to me...
Once again, it all comes down to perspective.
One side says: "These are just vulnerable people who want to live in peace like anyone else. We should make gender self-identification the only qualification and treat these people in no ways different from other members of their self-declared group."
The other side says: "Our educational, medical and cultural institutions have all been captured by a political ideology that says the mammalian sex binary is an oppressive construct that needs to be dismantled. And this has led to absurdities like the inability to define 'Woman' and a campaign to make this standard pedagogy that cannot be debated."
I see both sides. I have no interest in the Walsh doc, it just seems like trolling to me, but I also believe he should be able to air it and people should be able to watch it if they wish.
There is another side. It's called the truth. Teachers and Professors are getting fired because they refuse to use gender pronouns that do not match a person's sex. They are being asked to lie. That is one problem. The other problem is allowing and perpetuating another person living out a lie. That is the most deceitful thing one person can do to another. Jump back several decades to when the medical profession would treat the very rare gender dysphoria person, not with hormones and surgeries but with mental, and emotional care. For me personally, saving souls is the far greater enduring kindness then bolstering a troubled sinner’s wrongful view of themselves.
It's much worse than using "pronouns." The cult attacks womanhood and parents, while there's no corresponding attack on maleness. There are plenty of us old school feminists around and we have no illusions about the intent of this cult, in spite of decades of attacks against "feminists" and being told there's no need to worry about our rights. We always keep a military as we don't take our national safety for granted. We understand human nature. But for those who are able to ignore cognitive dissonance, the rules magically change when it comes to females.
I would argue that the consistent (and older) attack of cis-hetero masculinity is definitely an attack on maleness. Has been ongoing, and continues.
What is different here is the degree to which the real physical safety and privacy of biological women is being attacked and violated, often with the imprimatur of the state. I'm not a fan of the pronoun nonsense or the anti-science attitudes put forth around the issue, but I believe it is the attack of biological women and womanhood--and these are two separate attack vectors; while biological men invade women's spaces and sports on one side, on the other they engage in misogynistic parodies of femininity and claim that their minstrel-show womanhood gives them claim to being females.
I'm not a fan of the "toxic masculinity" attack on boys, or the general hostility to maleness that comes from the left. But I'm appalled at the violation of womanhood and women's spaces that's been coming from the supposed "left"--and the paucity of men ready to stand up in defense of those spaces.
I've been doing what I can, one person at a time, to try and block the attack on boys with the ADD/ADHD malarkey and subsequent medicating into zombiehood, starting with our own son about 26 years ago. When that was tried to ram down our throats I educated myself on the topic. The babble from the left, cis-hetero and "biological" men and women, are meaningless words. Men and women are biological categories by definition, so no need to add "biological." There are plenty of men and women standing in defense of girls and women.
There are plenty of men and women standing up in defense of girls and women— I should have elaborated, as I find the number of liberals/progressives standing up in defense of girls and women when it comes to sports, incarceration, rape crisis centers, and so so on … oddly small.
As do many of us. The dems are in thrall to the cult.
Exhibit A --- The abandonment of Title IX core principles;
Exhibit B --- Now addressing domestic violence as a mere dispute to be dealt with by "peacekeepers."
Supposedly it was Stokely Carmichael who said there was a place for women in The Movement --- prone. That's our role, right? March, and shut up.
The inability to recognize the role radicalism plays in this is astounding.
Theres no attack on maleness? Where tf u think this all started?
Bravo. Mr Becker seems to miss the very real, disastrous harm from the gender cult. Women facing biological men in locker rooms and bathrooms, prisons, most of whom are not innocent drag queens but predators who get off being in woman’s clothing and largely misogynist’s. Or the female athletes who committed a lifetime training to then lose to a biological male. It’s all madness and needs to challenged. And if that offends someone, we’ll that’s too bad. Time once was we chose to be offended or not. But we are all allowed to express ourselves.
Thank you. One mistake often made talking about this is when there's much made about whether or not these dudes go into female private spaces with their parts intact. IT DOESN"T MATTER. They are still dudes and can still knock a woman around, with or without an appendage.
I had zero interest in the Walsh doc until this recent kerfuffle. Now I'm thinking about watching it. Not right now but maybe later. Eventually I'm going to want to see if it's all innocent and bland and inoffensive as Walsh's defenders suggests, or an evil film advocating oppression and filled with lies.
Like anyone else, you may "see both sides" in this matter, but the "other side" is correct, is Right, and that "campaign" is a threat to free thought and speech . . . to the very concept of truth. It's so Postmodern!
Like it or not, necromorphs have been yoked to the neo-Marxist agenda that seeks to destroy Western civilization in the name of the "liberation of the culturally marginalized." Pity the poor, confused person who just wanted to be left alone to pursue his own fantasies. He's been dragged into a fight by those who claim to be his liberator.
And any person on any color can say the same thing. The real white supremacy comes from the liberal left in their need to virtue signal. I'm hoping they start a trend where they self immolate against their own whiteness, inability to educate every other white person of their values, and just burn themselves. I hear three phase power works too.