posted on Mar, 28 2023 @ 07:52 PM
You got me thinking.
It is true that language is a tool. We all use it, we almost can't conceive of lacking a language, but language appears also to be a tool which we
are free to change and manipulate within whatever the overriding culture allows.
Saying someone is "male" or "female, is - no matter what you might 'feel' about it - is simple fact. This is something you must always deal with and
accept as part of reality. It is logical and borne out by science. It can not be denied as matter of choice.
Those who saw the value in "pride" of being free to discuss what were traditionally private sexual choices began to abuse the idea of homosexuality as
a 'badge" or "shield." We (pejoratively speaking) once persecuted and demeaned homosexuals in shameful and abusive ways in our societies. Some still
do. Having finally shed the social cancer of automatic rejection, homosexuals reacted reasonably, as a people 'freed' from a long burden of social
shame and isolation. They became proud of themselves as a group.
A sort of social leniency became the 'offer of peace' for 'pride' parades, large-scale social events, and other 'commemoratory' social recognitions
offered up to the formerly almost universally oppressed group. The "inch" was given... the "mile" was to follow.
Some began to use the "shield" of their homosexual group identity to engender a sense of "guilt or shame" for any who remembered the 'bad label' they
themselves had fostered... making any natural questioning and commenting on it automatically "phobic."
In our world of newly acquired social amplification methods, the social fart can often become a social hurricane. So fear became associated with any
approach to the subject.
When you say something inappropriate and someone among a few says, "Hey, that was offensive to me." You might find it easy to apologize and accept
that you may need to revisit your word use... But when you say it in a social forum (like this) you may get 50 responses calling you out, and varying
in intensity from the former.. all the way to calling you names that almost demand a defensive response; a bad road to find oneself on.
Now it has come to politely allowing the dysphoric to discuss the intricacies of their sexual identities to children: the camel's nose in the tent. So
no one stopped to ask why that, of all things, was becoming a matter of social pride. This effort to 'make wiggle room' for a very tiny minority to
accommodate their 'feelings' has become the remainder of the camel in the tent. Now most students must rely on the words of a teacher, to learn just
how far some groups are willing to go to foster their own predilections as normal. And the children, having no experience with which to isolate the
utterance form the teachers' authority, are left confused, and vulnerable.
The new speak which we are all referring to hear can be defeated easily. Much more easily than you might think.
Simply say "male" or "female." Do not amplify it with someone else's characterization. Allow "others" to show you how they "understand" the term.
You don't need to engage their psycholinguistic metrics. Determine where they are coming from, understand that all the rest of the confusion is
noise. You are either male or female, period.
You are free to be however sexual you want to be, insofar as that is socially and realistically possible. But that choice is exactly that... a
choice. Disallow yourself from feeling you have to participate. Let the rest of the world squirm.
The young woman who perpetrated that tragic murder was a woman. Her social, sexual, and identity decisions were her own. Dysphoria is a state, not a
disease. It doesn't "cause" violence... it is a deep unease, rendering the sufferer in a perpetual state of sadness or stress.
We are starting to see gender dysphoria in an unrealistic light, thanks to the media abuse. I wonder if many people suffer it, as part of the growing
up process, it may last a minute, and hour, a day, or a decade; but discomfort and dissatisfaction seem to be the daily fair for those who undergo
it.
This effort to change the language to "make the wiggle room" for ambivalence and uncertainty seem so damn important to them... and I can't get a sense
of why. It doesn't "improve" anything... it certainly changes nothing.
Just some thoughts for the mill....