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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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Aug 29
The first clause of this sentence is locked in competition with a very crowded field, but is surely in the running for the single most nakedly Orwellian sentence clause to appear in a major newspaper in the recent memory. Image
Who first spread the rumor that the 6'4" male was trans??
And it's funny but it's also frightening and dark.
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Aug 28
All this Calvinball over whether he was or wasn't "really" trans, whether the press should hide his trans identification to dissociate an act of mass murder from a "marginalized minority" group, insist on honoring his preferred pronouns, or disclaim him as a "detransitioner" -- just underscores the point that there is no "real" trans with a stable, coherent referent to counterpose against the moral and mental chaos that has been reified in rhetoric rather than reality into "trans identity."

All it ever was in this or any other case is a maladaptive coping mechanism for the serious mental health comorbidities that virtually always accompany and/or give rise to trans ideation in teenagers who've been made impossible promises by ideologized adults, teachers, politicians, unscrupulous quack doctors, and cultists who have infiltrated the American professional class and reap a rich bounty in money and clout by brainwashing confused teenagers into yearning to be chemically castrated and dismembered.

There is of course no stable, coherent definition of "trans" other than "possessed of a false belief that can never be true that a boy is really a girl or "vice versa," and all the Chinese fire drills over how to refer to this person in the press just underscore this reality.Image
That in the midst of all this reified moral and mental chaos kids who are already troubled and unstable become even more troubled and unstable as their actual problems go undiagnosed and their mental and emotional energy is siphoned into a quixotic crusade to make an absurd falsehood into reality is just one of the many wrongs of this mania.
Nobody knows what they're supposed to do or say or believe or why. And when I say that I mean literally all anyone is fucking doing is making it up everyday as they go along -- building the plane as they fly it
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Aug 27
The operative logic is clear here: the more they kill others, they more they are imperiled by phantom counter-violence, and thus the more we must defend them, and all the more so on the days that they kill.

And thus we must excuse the calls to rape and violence that are pervasive in their online messaging and in the messaging they bring to protests and marches where they assert that they have a right to commandeer women's spaces if they say they are women and any woman who tries to draw boundary between herself and them is a Nazi who can be treated the way Nazis deserve to be treated.

And thus we must redouble our efforts to ensure that state power does their bidding and executes their will, and punishes those who resist their incursions, lest they further imperil themselves by killing others.
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Aug 27
The reason that suicides and murders by trans-identified youth will become increasingly common is that anyone can identity into a trans identity and all troubled and disturbed (as well as merely quirky or benignly misfit) young people are being encouraged and incentivized to do
Looks like the trans-identified male mass shooter targeted the church where his trans-affirming mother who signed off on his legal name change while he was still a minor worked for five years
Here's the paperwork for his name change
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Aug 25
Biden didn’t talk this way while campaigning. He won the Presidency and handed over complete control of federal agencies to the people who would.

This will be true of any Democrat apart from one who explicitly champions bans on boys in girls sports and spaces, bans of transing children, an end to gender propaganda in schools, and a guarantee that gender speech cannot be compelled.

Nothing short of explicit support for these actions will signal any change of policy at all.
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Aug 23
I used to tweet periodically about how I'm not really courageous and only take on fights where I'm 100 percent certain to win.

The gender issue has been great in this regard because people are more afraid of it than they are of anything else despite it being the purest, clearest, most self-evident case of the institutional embrace of mass delusion in American history.
I want people to understand the meaning of this signal: if I am taking a strong position, it's because the issue is an absolute bloodbath that cannot be lost in any sane world
Conversely, if they win, it will be a victory obtained by imposing a totalitarian social justice regime and a inaugurating a new dark age
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