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Biden: “There’s at Least One Gender”
Disingenuousness is the lifeblood of political lifers, but for Joe Biden, it’s the very air he breathes. How could it be otherwise given the impossible task of appeasing his party’s wild-eyed woke base without alienating those Democrats – namely, African Americans – who still have at least one foot tethered to reality?
Asked how many genders there are at a campaign stop in Iowa, the former vice president answered, “At least three,” which is an improvement, I suppose, on “At least one.” When pressed to elaborate, he replied, “Don’t play games with me, kid.” What’s striking – and endearing – about this last comment is its staggering cynicism. To the young college student who asked the question, gender isn’t a game: it’s an all-consuming obsession. So transparently cynical are Biden’s pseudo-appeals to millennials that I wouldn’t be surprised if his answer to the question “Can men get pregnant?” is “Sure, yeah, why not.”
Much attention has been paid to the sheer quantity of gaffes performed by the logorrheic Biden, but the inscrutability of the gaffes deserves special attention. One could place Biden quotes side by side the output of a chimp banging away on a typewriter and still be hard-pressed to tell one from the other. Did Biden really say in the lead-up to the second Gulf War that “The Saudis are fundamentally vicious anti-Americans but they’re our fundamentally vicious anti-Americans”? To ask the question is to answer it.
Biden is at his most appealing when, like Andrew Yang, he refuses to apologize. In an era when Republicans caught donning blackface are accused of culturally appropriating Democrats, an old-school Democrat regaling the country with tales about Corn Pop seems like the safest – and most entertaining – bet.
Biden is usually the last one in the room to get the joke. If politics is downstream from culture then Joe Biden is downstream from politics. The exception would be same-sex marriage, where former President Obama – God I love that phrase – found himself outmaneuvered by his white male dinosaur of a VP.
You know you’re on the wrong side of history when Joe Biden is deemed too hip for the room.
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Though “At least one” has the advantage, so rare in Democrat pronouncements, of being true.
Biden has always been a little confused by words but that’s the good part.
I hate to say this, but Joe Biden is completely correct that there are three genders.
“Gender,” used properly, is a grammar term that applies to nouns. There are three genders, masculine, feminine, and neuter. In English we see this most clearly with the pronouns he/him/his, she/her/hers, and it/its.
There are only two sexes, however, male and female.
Don’t play games with me, kid.
I want a “Free Corn Pop” t-shirt.
Or maybe “Justice for Corn Pop.”
Biden misgendered him and threatened to put him back in chains.
I will vote for Joe Biden if he appears at the next Democrat debate in blackface . . .
I am dismayed that none of the
toolsmoderators at any of the Democratic primary debates have asked the candidates to recite the list of genders.That ought to kill a good half hour.
You win the internet today.
Was his assumed gender children of the corn?
Agree absolutely with this. I would rather have the argument about grammatical context than sex. Has there been significant push that there are more than two sexes?
There sort of are. Some people really are born as intersex. But they are infrequent exceptions. Most of these people just have a problem with their wetware.
Are you describing here a biological anomaly? I recognize there are also many various mental and/or psychological interpretations, but I have no confidence these are replicable in any meaningful way that would yield to definition as such.
Yes.
Agreed.
Yes, but I doubt Biden was discussing grammar. Looking at my dictionary (copyright 1983), gender is first a grammar term (masculine, feminine, or neuter). But an alternative using is “Classification of sex.” So the idea that gender means whatever you feel like is a relatively new definition that too many people willfully go along with.
Talk about a story with no payoff at the end. They had razors, Biden had a chain. He walked out to them and said, “Sorry I called you Esther. That was wrong” and then they both walked away. When you have to brag about your “almost got in fight” then you have had a pretty safe childhood.
“Corn Pop 2020”
Yes, the new definition is a person’s set of characteristics at any point in time, so the correct answer is “infinity”.
Deez Nuts-Corn Pop 2020
Biden-Pop 2020. The Dems have their ticket!
That’s not a bad idea. I hear Corn Pop is dead, so he would be helping to pull in so many of the Democratic Party’s voting demographics.
That sews up the Chicago vote . . .
Vanishingly rare. And as far as I know, none of them have ever made a big deal about bathrooms.
What makes this so hilarious is that I can almost picture it happening.
Really isn’t the “one gender” the human gender?
“… the inscrutability of the gaffes deserves special attention. One could place Biden quotes side by side the output of a chimp banging away on a typewriter and still be hard-pressed to tell one from the other. “
I’m betting that it would be Biden, plagiarizing again.
Am I the only one who remembers Monty Python’s “Life of Brian”?
FRANCIS: Why are you always on about women, Stan?
STAN: I want to be one.
REG: What?
STAN: I want to be a woman. From now on, I want you all to call me ‘Loretta’.
REG: What?!
LORETTA: It’s my right as a man.
JUDITH: Well, why do you want to be Loretta, Stan?
LORETTA: I want to have babies.
REG: You want to have babies?!
LORETTA: It’s every man’s right to have babies if he wants them.
REG: But… you can’t have babies.
LORETTA: Don’t you oppress me.
REG: I’m not oppressing you, Stan. You haven’t got a womb! Where’s the foetus going to gestate?! You going to keep it in a box?!
LORETTA: [crying]
JUDITH: Here! I– I’ve got an idea. Suppose you agree that he can’t actually have babies, not having a womb, which is nobody’s fault, not even the Romans’, but that he can have the right to have babies.
FRANCIS: Good idea, Judith. We shall fight the oppressors for your right to have babies, brother. Sister. Sorry.
REG: What’s the point?
FRANCIS: What?
REG: What’s the point of fighting for his right to have babies when he can’t have babies?!
FRANCIS: It is symbolic of our struggle against oppression.
REG: Symbolic of his struggle against reality.
One of my favorite movies! I’ve often thought of this scene with all the perverted gender activism lately. Staggeringly pertinent here.