This is evil. He is evil. He and his maniac buddies are hurting child safeguarding women’s rights far more than I thought. I’m pro-choice but I loathe the way he strives to portray bodily autonomy as an ‘anything goes’ and lumps in something so complex and vunetable like this. I loathe the way his movement hijacks and lumps in anything with their deranged bodily autonomy. This will harm women’s right to choose. A right that is not a simple or fun or just because I say so. They misrepresent a sensitive matter which they understand nothing of, and women will be left to pick up the pieces. The same with everything they hijack.
"And the same sense of inadequacy that leads them to include "Pulitzer-winning" after the name – and even in their Twitter bio – because they can't fucking believe it."
This seems more to the point. Ms Chu, having written herself into existence, is bent on staying in the public eye by taking the shortest most popular route available these days: infamy. But her moment seems past. Her movement doesn't need outrageous theoreticians anymore. It needs good liability lawyers.
Wow, indeed. I was a little surprised by the scale of the reaction to Mr. Chu’s most recent contribution to the discourse — strenuous objections from voices as disparate as Meghan Murphy to Freddie deBoer. And now yours, which is, in my view, the best by far. Well done!
Chu writes, in the article linked at 'my god, for the breasts', "The truth is, I have never been able to differentiate liking women from wanting to be like them."
This confusion of what someone is attracted TO with what they think they should want to BE is a classic confusion for people on the autism spectrum. It's one of the reasons why people with autism are disproportionately susceptible to becoming persuaded that they're transgender, especially straight and bi- people on the spectrum.
Good point. Two reasons - one, it imposes on the reader not to get used to a familiar pronoun. "They" is a constant irritation, an itch that reminds the reader of Chu's biological reality. Second, I wanted to keep the focus on the contents of Chu's essay rather than give an easy thing to fixate on ("Misgendering! GENOCIDE!")
And with the awarding of that Pulitzer the complete and total ethical corruption and moral bankruptcy of Western oligarchic institutional structures has been made so abundantly clear and "trans"parent - that there is no going back - there is no way to "unsee" what we have now "seen." The word "gangrenous" keeps coming to mind whenever I think about Western oligarchy and their minions in the political, MSM and academic classes.
I'm absolutely stunned that Chu gets a pass on his Yellowface from liberals who still give poor, sad and harmless RD such a hard time. It relates of course to Butler's complete cowardice on questions of "race". She knows that job and money depend on not challenging that constructed identity.
Why on earth would you pander to this revolting man by calling him ‘they’?
It instantly dilutes your (excellent) points, by submitting to his demand that he is not recognised as, or recognisably is, a man. It suggests that he is something different. That he isn’t a woman, but he’s not a man either.
He is a man, regardless of surgery or opposite sex hormones.
Chu is biologically man, he, not she, not they or them.
This is evil. He is evil. He and his maniac buddies are hurting child safeguarding women’s rights far more than I thought. I’m pro-choice but I loathe the way he strives to portray bodily autonomy as an ‘anything goes’ and lumps in something so complex and vunetable like this. I loathe the way his movement hijacks and lumps in anything with their deranged bodily autonomy. This will harm women’s right to choose. A right that is not a simple or fun or just because I say so. They misrepresent a sensitive matter which they understand nothing of, and women will be left to pick up the pieces. The same with everything they hijack.
"And the same sense of inadequacy that leads them to include "Pulitzer-winning" after the name – and even in their Twitter bio – because they can't fucking believe it."
This seems more to the point. Ms Chu, having written herself into existence, is bent on staying in the public eye by taking the shortest most popular route available these days: infamy. But her moment seems past. Her movement doesn't need outrageous theoreticians anymore. It needs good liability lawyers.
Wow, indeed. I was a little surprised by the scale of the reaction to Mr. Chu’s most recent contribution to the discourse — strenuous objections from voices as disparate as Meghan Murphy to Freddie deBoer. And now yours, which is, in my view, the best by far. Well done!
Wow.
Chu writes, in the article linked at 'my god, for the breasts', "The truth is, I have never been able to differentiate liking women from wanting to be like them."
This confusion of what someone is attracted TO with what they think they should want to BE is a classic confusion for people on the autism spectrum. It's one of the reasons why people with autism are disproportionately susceptible to becoming persuaded that they're transgender, especially straight and bi- people on the spectrum.
Great essay but I don't get why you referred to Chu -- a male, a man forever -- as "they"! WTF?!!
Good point. Two reasons - one, it imposes on the reader not to get used to a familiar pronoun. "They" is a constant irritation, an itch that reminds the reader of Chu's biological reality. Second, I wanted to keep the focus on the contents of Chu's essay rather than give an easy thing to fixate on ("Misgendering! GENOCIDE!")
And with the awarding of that Pulitzer the complete and total ethical corruption and moral bankruptcy of Western oligarchic institutional structures has been made so abundantly clear and "trans"parent - that there is no going back - there is no way to "unsee" what we have now "seen." The word "gangrenous" keeps coming to mind whenever I think about Western oligarchy and their minions in the political, MSM and academic classes.
I'm absolutely stunned that Chu gets a pass on his Yellowface from liberals who still give poor, sad and harmless RD such a hard time. It relates of course to Butler's complete cowardice on questions of "race". She knows that job and money depend on not challenging that constructed identity.
Absolutely. It is stunning. Where RD stumbled, ALC has soared.
https://stanleyabner1951gmailcom.substack.com/p/trans-ideology
Why on earth would you pander to this revolting man by calling him ‘they’?
It instantly dilutes your (excellent) points, by submitting to his demand that he is not recognised as, or recognisably is, a man. It suggests that he is something different. That he isn’t a woman, but he’s not a man either.
He is a man, regardless of surgery or opposite sex hormones.
Language matters. Use it properly.
Thanks for the comment. Someone made a similar comment, and here was my response: https://open.substack.com/pub/mungeribabu/p/the-unending-desires-of-andrea-long?r=2eskl2&utm_campaign=comment-list-share-cta&utm_medium=web&comments=true&commentId=52159400