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Shouldn’t This Present Problems?
The actor formerly known as Ellen Page recently came out in an Instagram post saying she is a man, now to be known as Elliot Page.
I have my own mixed feelings towards transgenderism but probably lean to the Ben Shapiro side more than anything. We won’t get into that here. What I want to get into are some of the problems a story like this should present to the mainstream leftist ideology. None of these are original, just a few picked up here or there I find to be especially challenging.
- Ellen Page was a white female actress. We’re told that females (especially actresses) are paid less. Will Elliot Page see an immediate pay increase?
- Now identifying as a male (in the post Elliot says trans which is just doublespeak for male in my opinion), which we’re told is all you have to do to become a male, is Elliot Page now a member of the white patriarchy?
- Now identifying as a male but continuing to work in “his” current role, is Elliot not taking a job away from an underprivileged female? Is that not some form of modern 2020 blackface?
The mainstream leftist ideology is riddled with contradictions, especially when it comes to sex. How does one do it? Are they all just real-life “This Is Fine” dogs?
Especially those of us in the Ladies Auxiliary Fight Club.
The only problem is see is whether or not Page is nominated for best actor or actress . . .
Maybe he/she figured on being nominated for both, double the chances of winning something…
Followed of course by:
That’s how it works, right?
More likely the “wife” will leave “him.” As I recall hearing about another recent case of a “man becoming a woman” and his male lover/partner/”husband”/whatever leaving “her.” The comment was something like “If I’d wanted to be with a woman, I would have been with a woman to start with.”
We should remove the actress or any female awards. Just on award for everyone that we can grant to the most aggrieved.
There you go again.
It’ll be “actx.”
Don’t have kids.
That must be given to a gender flipper
Both
Kids are great. Conservatives especially should have lots of kids. We’ve got to out-breed the leftists.
Yes, have lots of kids, but don’t then send them to the Leftist Indoctrination Camps. i.e., public schools.
I don’t care what well informed adults do for happiness. So long as they follow the golden rule etc.
The part I find horrifying is that there apparently is huge increase in the number of pre-puberty children thinking that they will be happier if they transition:
Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters according to this book.
I am not recommending the podcast in general, but, if you want to check if the theme of the book is worth considering:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/abigail-shrier-on-teen-trans-trend-feminism-technology/id1532976305?i=1000495240932
is pretty good (not morally good, to me it seems insane) overview.
A scenario they go over in the podcast is to just imagine the nightmare scenario were some child thinks this will make them happy and they undergo hormone treatment pre-puberty. Then they get to their 20-30s and realize they made a mistake and they want to have kids and they are infertile. (not a doctor, not sure if its true. seems plausible)
If its just changing your hair and clothes and wanting to be referred to by gender X, I guess, fine, who cares. But if these lefty ideas turn out to be wrong and 100’s (1000’s?) of kids regret following through with this, I wonder if the people pushing this will have the self awareness to feel regret. Of course not.
You’ve highlighted a serious area of concern, and one other area that I find problematic for a “live and let live” attitude is the use of public policy (i.e., anti-bias laws) to infringe on private decision-making in this area. One may well be able to question the need for these laws in general in the market place of today (and Richard Epstein has done just that), but the rapidity with which the trans movement was able to gain entry into a protected classification was pretty amazing.
A happy circumstance of school shutdown due to COVID is a lot of these kids are detransitioning due to lack of peer and teacher pressure.
It’s a toggle switch next to the Deplatform and Unperson buttons.
I think she’s doing it for the perks, much like Tim Whatley converted to Judaism for the jokes:
If Ellen Page were truly a good actress, she’d not have needed to announce that she’s a man.
Why would you leave your children to where the world is heading? Seem short sighted and cruel.
Great minds are weighing in:
That said, now that Page is a straight man he is officially an oppressor and deserves nothing but our contempt. #CancelElliotPage
Who?
When you consider most of human existence was short, brutish and harsh, a child born today is born into extravagance. The politics of the world has always been unstable. Nothing new there. Why let that stop ya? Procreate away.
Did you just say, Go forth and multiply?
If you don’t like forth, would you prefer maybe javascript?
:-)
I want to see a whole bunch of Flicker Jrs. commenting on this site in the next 30 years.
Secret: I don’t get it.
So who am I? Abraham?! But thanks for the thought. I often tell my wife that Sarah conceived in her old age, and I think she doesn’t think it’s funny anymore. By the way, she’s 29. :)
If I raise ’em right, they can help change the direction! It’s actually taking the long view. It’s only cruel for me because I can’t see the future. Pretty sure they’re happy they exist. I’m not a anti-natalist like that one guy we had around here for awhile.
forth and javascript are both programming languages in which it is possible to (arithmetically) multiply.