DAN R. writes:

Bruce Jenner is the newest poster child for the JokeNation formally known as the United States of America, suggesting that the phenomenon described by the title of Charles Mackay’s 1841 book, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, goes beyond the author’s focus on financial panics.

I watched the television coverage of Jenner’s 1976 Olympic decathlon victory.  He was the real deal, a great athlete.  What happened?  Someone who lived off of that success for the past forty years and perhaps needed some new way to distinguish himself from a somewhat sad run of post-gold medal mediocrity?  In the end, whenever I think of the idea of Bruce Jenner “becoming a woman” I either shake my head or am tempted to burst out laughing.  And I’m reminded of the common-sense truth (transcending the vulgarity) in Gavin McInnes’s banned essay: “Transphobia Is Perfectly Natural.”

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Sophia writes:

I came across that article on “transphobia” yesterday via an Orthospherian article that referenced the author, and I could not even really skim through it because of its vulgarity. The author is an interesting figure with right-wing views, but I don’t think that justifies us reading a work full of such vulgarity, which really cannot be “transcended,” as it screams in one’s face.

Dan R. writes:

McInnes is a kind of right-wing hipster writing to a hipster audience on a blog site.  Interestingly, the piece was banned at the site where it was originally published–Thought Catalog, of which McInnes is a founder–but, I can assure you, for altogether different reasons than to what Sophia has objected.

I took no delight in McInnes’s language, but given the outrageousness of the topic could fully appreciate the bluntness with which he addressed the “transgender” phenomenon.  Granted, his language is not for everyone, but when society’s elites blithely accept such phenomena as normal it’s further evidence that we live in truly crazy times, and sometimes what’s needed is a proverbial slap in the face.  In addition to the Times article linked in the post, check out Nicholas Kristof’s insipid column, “Bruce Jenner’s Courage.”  McInnes’s language is gratuitous and over-the-top, but the very respectable voices of the “gray lady” are out-and-out nauseating.  Though it predates the Times articles, I found the McInnes piece (which I had read in the summer, when it originally appeared)  to be an effective rebuke to the far greater vulgarity endorsed by our superiors at The New York Times.

James writes:

The concept that sex and gender are distinct and separate is a new invention… and complete nonsense. The way we are casually throwing around the concept is sick. I can’t go a day without having sex/gender separation being reinforced by media or pounded in to my head by some misguided youngster in public.

Don’t get me started on these so-called “sex change” operations. It is disgusting — hack doctors taking these disturbed people’s money in exchange for what is essentially elective genital mutilation. “Sex change” is impossible. It can’t be done. “Oh, I’m a woman/man now” sounds absurd. NO, you aren’t. You are now an “it,” a monster of a person. You are left with a non-functional, ruined genitalia, artificial hormones ravaging your body, and a broken mind that the brainwashed masses will tell you is completely “natural” and “normal.”

The forced acceptance is what bothers me the most. We are teaching the current generation that it is perfectly normal to truly believe you are something you are not, and “sex changes” are a viable and good solution to what is ultimately a mental illness. What percentage of post-op transgender regret their decision? We’ll probably never know, because what percentage of them would admit it? A decision that big cannot be taken back, and to regret your “Sex change” would go against the cause. I wonder if there are any regretful post-ops with the courage to speak out against the sex change industry.

If I were to paint myself yellow, believe I’m a banana, and ask all my friends to call me “Mr. Banana” henceforward, I’d be labeled a nut and probably committed to a mental institution, but chop off my penis and believe I’m a woman, suddenly I’m a protected class fighting “such a brave battle.” To even suggest psychological help would be offensive and wrong.

I don’t understand anything anymore.

 Laura writes:

It seems to me that you understand some important things.

Forta Leza writes:

It’s interesting that the Bible anticipated this problem.  From Deuteronomy 22:5

A woman must not wear men’s clothing, nor a man wear women’s clothing, for the Lord your God detests anyone who does this.

Of course transgender types go a lot further, but even cross-dressing is probably a first step in the wrong direction.  Also, in my opinion, it’s a much bigger problem for a man to wear a skirt or a dress or panties than for a woman to wear pants.  The former is just a much more charged decision.  That said, I do think that it’s better if women limit themselves to dresses or skirts.

Also, I would add I think that a big part of the problem is pornography.  People get overstimulated by pornography and start looking for weirder and weirder things in order to get turned on.  There is an idea that pornography is harmless, but I disagree.

Perfesser Plum writes:

Following Dan R’s statement, “I took no delight in McInnes’s language, but given the outrageousness of the topic could fully appreciate the bluntness with which he addressed the ‘transgender” phenomenon,’” I must say that I took great delight in his language.

His words signify exactly the same objects and actions as the words used by members (ha) of the transgender “community” (the idol of which appears to be the scalpel), but their words sanitize and disguise the perversity of their desires. “Penectomy” means “cut your d$#@ off.”  “Vaginoplasty” means “make a fake p$##@.”  Their limp language enables them to find acceptance among the so-called progressives, who are equally unable to name what is real.

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