What I said, stands. About Chaz Bono -- I'm pretty brutal, in the namecheck. Same with Caitlyn Jenner, and for that matter, Elliot Page. Lia Thomas deserves it, not because he looks like Lurch, and not only because he is an ax murderer.
It was Elliot that got me started again, in a desultory way, after my wilderness years of silence. It's just that reality matters. It's a losing battle, or seems that way -- we find out at the end who wins. And everyone loves a good come-back story. Rocky, uh, II I think, and The Bad News Bears, and the Book of Revelation.
So many degenerations, and so few Great Awakenings. Look at what the Methodists became, or the Carnegie Institute. Even the Mormons didn't hold fast to the old-time doctrine -- polygamy, racism, Quakers living on the moon, etc. Marxism is or would be a great idea, except for reality. Evolutionism isn't as comforting and inspirational and ennobling a religion as the Victorians might have wished.
All these theories that we invent in our imaginations and act as if they're true ... that's what being young is all about. Follow the teen fashions, and then outgrow them. Mullets and DAs and crewcuts, and bellbottoms and leatherstring vests (I'm sure they had a name) and whatever it's been in this, the characterless 21st Century. Tattoos. Just fashions.
Then we settle into who/what we think we really are, settling not so much into quicksand, wearing not so much cement overshoes. We settle into institutional conformity. Not cliques and subcultures anymore, for most people. Starting a family is a wonderful concentrater of the mind.
But even that seems like it's outmoded, temporarily. Not reproducing has to be temporary, because it's not sustainable. You stop sustaining because you run out of babies, or, you get the motor running again, etc. As Lincoln reminded us over and over, half-slave and half-free cannot long stand.
A dessert that's half ice cream and half dog poop is not for me, thank you very much. Not even if it's a gallon mixed with only one teaspoon. Nope. We'd rather starve -- or the dog-poop lovers would kill us.
The obvious point is that genital amputations are the sort of teen fad that metastasizes into the future. Chaz and Caitlyn and Elliot are well past following a fad. They are trendsetters, influencers, examples to teens. Collectively they averaged about age 50 when they elected for their surgeries. Biologically mature adults.
("Adult" meaning reproductively viable may be excluded -- something like whether or not a fetus is "viable". None of the tranzes in question are able to reproduce now. (Is that rude, 'tranzes' -- objectifying them? -- othering them? When POCs (people of color) stop othering me, calling me 'anglo', which I am not, then we can open a dialogue about it. (Was that rude? 'POCs'? When I get that long-overdue apology from libtards for being called a right winger, which I am not, we can start having that discussion. (Was that rude? That thing about 'libtards'?))) (And Caitlyn, if ever a woman, would have been past his fertile years anyway -- past his Lemon-fresh prime, heh heh, giddit!?!) No, not adults. Adult bodies have settled into their final functional shape ... and sorry guys, no more size coming your way.)
Sadly, from my worldview, Caitlyn & Company's example is toxic. My perhaps ad hominem polemics against them are, I would hope, also toxic, like DDT to mosquitoes. But it's against their examples, not them. They are empowering teenage self-annihilation. Tragic. Maybe you agree that I'm deliberate, if not wise, in the words I use. Tragic.
This is the obvious point.
The actual point here is that I do recommend the "Chazztitty" post, now. Not in its 2011 portion, but in the 2023 preface I added. Some cute meta stuff there, but in itself that's not the reason. What followed naturally in my mind was about Bruce Jenner. Slightly convoluted:
If or since tranz people have always been that other thing, what they were not born as, then Bruce Jenner won the '76 Decathlon as a woman. So 1] his record must be expunged, because women could not compete in men's events, or 2] a woman held those men's records for lo those many years, or 3] all women's records have to be adjusted lower, supplanted by Bruce's. Either it was Caitlyn who won them, or Bruce. (What ever shall the Olympic Committee decide? It is a dilemma and a puzzlement worthy of Solomon.)
This is why I said "meta". It's time travel.
Or it's like finding out you've been betrayed, and you have to go back and reexamine all those conversations, those intimacies you had with her, watch them take on new meanings, alien or opposite to what you had thought they were. Every time she said I love you -- it meant something else. Every caress, every plan about your future together -- they become something else. And it breaks your heart.
Or, it's not so much like your husband saying he's gay, as it is him saying he's a woman. What does that make you, ma'am, if you were married to a woman?
And so on. The whole world has to adjust itself, if gender is fluid. It's certainly not just about presumptively male or female clothing styles. It's not even about gender-neutral restroom stalls. It is about young teenage girls sharing shower space with naked teenage boys who today, fluidly, call themselves girls. It's the girls who must adapt and accommodate.
But, maybe, the wokists are right? So ... Get over yourself, girls. It's not like you've never seen a penis before. Apparently, everyone has one.
Speaking of which, that Elliot Page.
J
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