It’s one thing when liberals turn their minds off and let trans activists dictate reality to them, in the name of being nice. It’s another thing altogether when they spend a significant amount of time hearing out both sides and THEN write an article encouraging child abuse. That’s what Jon Skolnik just did at Salon.…
The Guardian just published Alana McLaughlin’s opinions on trans kids and sports, which is ridiculous. This is Alana McLaughlin: It’s a really bad look, so the article doesn’t mention it and The Guardian placed a single sentence at the end: “Alana McLaughlin is a mixed martial arts athlete.” Surely the authority on issues of gender,…
We can’t reach peak trans soon enough. New York Magazine just published a horrifying vision of abortion activism as led by trans people. Prevent this tragedy. The first sentence already makes it clear that this alliance is a Bad Idea. In the weeks leading up to what very well may be the American abortion-rights Armageddon,…
“Nonbinary identity” is a way of achieving self-absorption without self-awareness. It has a cringiness to it. Trans activism presents a united front, where we’re supposed to accept everyone’s self-declared identities. Among TRAs themselves, though, even “traditional” trans people can be turned off by the enbies: At least conservative TRAs are willing to say these…
Let’s assume that everyone of both sexes experiences the range of human emotions. Society demands that each sex express a different subset of those emotions, or express them differently. Those demands are conveyed through social cues. Autistic people are less affected by social cues. Either we miss them, or we care less. If we simply…
The difference between liberals and radicals is that radicals are for “revolution” and against capitalism. The American legal system is based on classical liberalism. Currently, both parties serve a corporate agenda, and the corporate ideology is neoliberalism. The Democrats want neoliberalism to be “nice.” The Republicans are heirs of the slave-owning OG liberals, basically fascists.…
The previous post was about how Ellen Willis is the anti-Dworkin and it’s too bad how she won the sex wars. I got the Ellen Willis book because it included the essay “Lust Horizons: Is the Women’s Movement Pro-Sex?” from 1981. It’s the founding document of “sex-positive feminism”. My lifetime has basically been the time…
A big turning point in my intellectual development was starting therapy and reading about masochism. In particular, the book Sensational Flesh: Race, Power, and Masochism exposed me to Andrea Dworkin, Audre Lorde, and the sadomasochism wars of the 1980s. Team Sex Negative sounded right to me, and my reading went in that direction. “Sex positivity”…