Hello, let me tell you about an easter egg I noticed in C.S. Lewis's Space Trilogy this weekend. Start with another Lewis book. One of my absolute favorite passages in all of his works is also one that has always frustrated me. It's in Chapter 4 of The Four Loves, on friendship.

Absolutely everyone is allowed to “perform gender” except men who want to be manly For Dylan Mulvaney, no accessory is too trivial and no object too banal to count as an indispensable marker of some essential “girlhood”. For a “trans woman” absolutely any bag, trinket, or utensil is a necessary and beautiful expression of femininity.

Here’s my problem with the Game of Thrones-ification of the fantasy genre: I’m starting to think it’s a fundamental misunderstanding of what fantasy is for. (The following thoughts brought to you by the finale of Witcher season 3, in which unexpected deaths and betrayals become so much the norm that they’re more hackneyed and boring than the tropes they claim to subvert. Spoilers follow.)

Let me weigh in here with a thread about the slippery slope. I will touch on complicated subjects that arouse strong passions. There is probably no way to be as precise and detailed as the situation merits. But broadly speaking, here is where things stand as I see them.

https://twitter.com/RubinReport/status/1670794551991099392

The sexual revolution demanded many profound changes to American social life and the laws that govern it. Issues involved included divorce, abortion, contraceptives, gay sex, and pornography. In every case the trend was to maximize personal choice and weaken traditional norms.