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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?
No no, that’s why I thought it must have been quite early …
Coconut halves and a wig, I’d assume. In the finest Shakespearean tradition.
You mean for horses?
I was thinking Upstart Crow not Monty Python. Keep up with your brit comedy.
They’ve got a good bit about the absurdity of women wanting to be cast as actors in female parts. “Where would the coconuts go?”
Are they migratory?
Sorry, I couldnt help it.
Since this thread is of loose and assorted nuts – the migratory coconut should fit right in.
Lol. That’s what my comment was referring to.
It’s been 20 0r 25 years since I’ve watched TV. Hard to keep up under those circumstances.
My brother frequently lists a number of common words and phrases misused by the media, disinterested for uninterested, socialisation for socialising etc. I think he conceded recently over fulsome but he used to roll his eyes over the expression fulsome praise.
Begs the question is another one he says is misused all the time.
Absolutely. I misused the phrase a few years ago here on Ricochet, making the common mistake of thinking it meant “invites the question,” and someone corrected me. I’ve been careful to use it correctly ever since.
See, the Grammar Police do have their uses! :-)
Should she feel obligated to return back any and all past acting awards, in which she was portraying a female role? After all, in 2008, she won the Academy Award for Best ACTRESS. So shouldn’t she return that award, if Ellen Page was actually a male, inside a female body? And wouldn’t that be fraud?
Yes, they round up violators and submit them to the Grammaticus Inquisitorium.
He’s explained it to me twice but I still don’t remember. It’s not something I’d say anyway in everyday conversation.
My grammar and spelling are horrifyingly bad. Sometimes to the point of not being fluent in English.
Begging the question is defending a position while taking the validity of that position for granted. The entire democratic platform is begging questions. If you disagree with any minor point of their agenda, its not a fault with the agenda, it’s you – you’re defective for being disagreeable. You’re some-phobe, a bigot, stupid or corrupt, or some combination of all defects.
There’s another one, appraised instead of apprised. He has a long list.
The problem with learning all these distinctions is that pedants will have to focus on ever smaller pico-transgressions and that can’t be good for their mental well-being.
He’s an exceptionally cheerful fella. He has a background in journalism so I suppose he keeps an ear out for when the media make cock ups like this, which is pretty frequent.
I’m regularly shocked to learn that yet another [television news reporter, journalist, lawyer, …] doesn’t know that the verb loathe is different in both meaning and pronunciation from the adjective loath.
I hope you’re not as easily and repeatedly shocked as @peterrobinson appears to be. :-)