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Jan 8, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
This footnote by Amia Srinivasan, taken from her book, the Right to Sex, poses the question in a useful way. It is a hard question that is part of the psychosexual pre-history of our times. I will feel I have satisfied my purpose as I writer when I have answered it. Image
What I like about the framing is the way at looks at two pieces by the same author and uses it as a lens to look at the way the world change. Here are two of my favorites: salon.com/2005/09/20/kun…

And: thecut.com/2018/06/summer…
The story told in Srinivasan's sequence is in a way the same story told in mine. This is the story that hasn't quite been told, merely acted out by the culture industries.
The question is not hard in itself, it just becomes hard because of all the ways the culture has become involuted, but the work of writing is to master those involutions in such a manner as to make them straight them again
The rhetoric of the prior tweet is sure to be parsed as illustrative. And it is!

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Nov 13
A man kills his wife and two children and in the immediate aftermath begins identifying as a woman.

The local paper covering his case honors the preferred pronouns of the triple murderer, referring to him as "she."

They are doing so because the transgender movement defines a "woman" as "anyone who claims to be a woman" -- that is to say, the same reason that a 6'4" non-medically transitioned man was allowed to change with NCAA swimmer and set a woman's world record, the same reason that a serial murderer of women who beheaded and dismembered a woman upon his release from a prison sentence for two prior murders of women is now housed in a women's prison, the same reason that Kamala Harris wrote a letter congratulating Dylan Mulvaney, a 29-year old man who identifies as both a female and a child, for his "365 days of being a girl," the same reason a Seattle Human Rights Commission fined a Korean nude spa for women for denying entry to a non-transitioned man who claimed to be a woman, the same reason YouTube will ban content referring to Mulvaney as a man.

All claim to be women and are therefore women according to the criteria established by the transgender movement for who is a woman -- rules obeyed by the cultural, political, financial, legal, medical, and corporate establishments of the Western world.Image
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How did this movement immunize itself from the weekly reductiones ad absurdum that it generates? Why does it keep marching on from power to power despite the repeated exposure of the depraved illogic at its foundation?

It succeeded in dismantling reason and replacing it with the will of the party to a greater degree than anything ever has.
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Sep 25
Mayo Clinic recently added Martine Rothblatt to its board of directors
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Mayo is just doing what most other private and public healthcare institutions are in the process of doing -- imposing an ideological mania on everyone that interfaces with it.

Rothblatt is a key actor in all of it everywhere and Mayo is at the forefront because of his direct participation, but not necessarily more so than many other similar institutions
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Aug 22
I was pretty surprised when I learned a couple of years ago that our coral reefs are larger than they have ever been
There's a whole popular kids book and TV series based on the imminent threat to the reefs posed by human activity aimed at 5 and 6 year-olds. Had to explain to my daughter that the Great Barrier Reef is larger than ever.
Was also surprised to learn that the US has more bees than ever before Image
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Jul 22
When Nancy Pelosi threatens to destroy your chance of victory through escalating public assertions of your unfitness for office and you succumb because you judge her threats to be credible — you have definitely not put America first or sacrificed for a higher cause
Everyone claiming otherwise in unison knows this.
He may have done the right thing but wrong or right, he acted out of pure expediency
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Jun 1
JK Rowling's publisher told junior employees demanding the severing of ties with the world's highest-grossing author that they would not comply with their demands and that they were welcome to seek employment elsewhere if they couldn't deal with this refusal. An easy decision.

A harder decision for another publisher -- Bloomsbury in this case -- would have been to stand by a first-time author with an exhaustively researched book about systematic malfeasance at Britain's only pediatric gender clinic. Of course they caved.
The point is to call out the bad, cowardly actor (Bloomsbury) and praise the good, courageous actor (Little, Brown), as Rowling clarifies it was her intent to do here — our shared intent
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May 21
The rubber is hitting the road all across the United States and the Anglosphere.

Everything that they insisted was a scare story 18 months ago while working feverishly to make it mandatory and pervasive is rapidly scaling up and will soon be pervasive.

The time to exercise your right to dissent is now, while you still have it, as the powers that be conspire to wrest it from you forever.

The public is beginning to realize this.
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