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A Sad Case of a Bass
In my chorus, there is a young guy who thinks he’s a gal. He’s a Second Bass.
Last night he came to first rehearsal for the Christmas concert. He was wearing a pleated skirt and wore his hair below shoulder length and dyed bright blue. He had little breasts showing beneath his shirt or sweater, or perhaps the appearance of breasts created by a padded bra.
He made a deliberately, disturbingly pathetic display of himself for public consumption. He is in a desperate, self-destructive state, and a suicidal rage, and his atrocious display is a desperate plea for help.
But nobody is listening. Satan knows that his soul’s cry will, far from attracting help from those who are healthy and strong enough to give it, instead disgust and repel them.
This poor young guy started out as a boy who was mixed up about his sexual identity at the age where every boy and every girl is intended to discover it from grown-ups. No healthy dad and no other healthy man was nearby to help him. And no mom, no grandma, no sunday school teacher to fill in as emergency backup. So he took a wrong turn.
The result so far is that instead of his parents and his family doctor and his teachers helping him to grow up into a man who could make something useful and honorable of his life, they abused and manipulated him physically and psychologically and spiritually and even surgically and medically, I suppose, and formed him into a female impersonator.
For no reason.
This bothers me a lot.
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And she sings bass? Must be pre-op.
How tragic. These stories make my heart ache. I wish there were someone who could help him.
Or maybe trying to be an alien, you species-ist!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hr1TEXAvuGg&t=54s
Dark humor aside, I expect a large share of the worst cases such as the one you describe, are likely unresolvable medically, psychiatrically, etc. Not sure how many of such cases came about in the past, but I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s something chemical involved, such as various chemicals ingested by mothers during pregnancy, etc.
Shut up, science denier.
I’ve seen these tragedies play out. It is a horror, but the medical industry makes a fortune and we pay for most of it in insurance premiums.
I think Augie has been Interneting a bit too much.
Thank you, Susan.
You often seem more Christian than some people who call themselves Christians.
Nah. Vocal characteristics aren’t going to change. It’s one of several things that prove that, even with hormone treatments for the rest of his life, “fixing” him is a myth. I know there are classes that teach people like him to sound more like a woman when he speaks. It’s possible to expand one’s vocal range with exercise and practice, but the moment you stop, your voice returns to what it was built to do. And learning to use an airy, “sotto voce” technique makes a sound many of these people think is more feminine. Mostly, they’re just taught to speak in falsetto all the time.
This poses such a moral dilemma. Is it false kindness to refer to him as “she, zer, whatever” and reinforce his dysphoria, or cruel to refuse and continue to call him a “Him”.
Do you ignore them, or try to show empathy.
I have found those who go these extreme ends, become quite belligerent if you do not fully comply fully with accepting them under their defined terms.
I fear for our society and country.
Ten years ago this wasn’t a Democrat contagion.
This is pathetic. I see some of these patients in my work as a gynecologic endocrinologist. One hundred percent of them are seriously mentally ill. They deserve our compassion and intense psychotherapy, not Lupron and cross-hormones. Mark is right on the money with “He is in a desperate, self-destructive state, and a suicidal rage”.
The complicity of my profession in this abomination is appalling.
This fashion to transgenderism is as destructive to society as abortion has been. Oppose it every chance that you can.
This really is a new phenomenon, isn’t it? I don’t recall even hearing the term until about a year ago; does anyone know when/how it became so wide-spread so quickly?
For example:
Wow! I guess the action is where the money is, as always.
It’s a Democrat contagion. It was a consistent .42% of the population or something for forever until 10 years ago.
I think at Brown University, 20% of the women think they are lesbians, now.
I don’t think gay men can help it at all, but there is no such thing as gay marriage. This is not moving things forward. Call it something else.
Do you all sound like the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir by any chance?
I don’t know. I haven’t heard them.
Every time I see this post in the Notifications, I start thinking “what does fishing have to do with… oh!”
As someone who has spent virtually no time ever fishing, but spends a lot of time in choral music, I get confused every time I see “bass” in reference to the fish.
Me neither, but it’s the capitalization.
Indeed, there was also a Bass family where I grew up. Some were farmers, and there were also the Bass Family Mortuaries.
Yeah. I totally sympathize, and I am glad you brought it up!
English has some bugs, and a good writer tries to dodge ‘em asbestos he can.
This was one I could not find a way around. (In fact, I have never found a way round it with the homonym “bass”.)
When that happens, all a writer can do is recognize that every thoughtful reader will momentarily trip over the misreading, and hope he is not too distracted.
Same problem with BLM, and not just for me.
Bureau of Land Management.