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Mar 12, 2022Liked by Íris Erlingsdóttir

Thankyou for your plain speaking. We have all been around long enough to know what a load of illogical, gaslighting, harmful, propagandist horseshit gender identity ideology is.

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I love your anger. The passage "We’ve been told that "transgender" rights are a battle for civil rights, the “new gay rights battle.” That is another lie. There’s a big difference between asking people to accept you for who you are and demanding they accept you for who you are not." is now forever burned into my brain. And I agree that from this point on only straight talking is going to defeat this Emperor's New Clothes garbage of pretending to see what you don't see in case admitting you can't see it might hurt someone's feelings. So yeah it's got to stop because that's how it progressed so far, by no-one wanting to be the party pooper by saying the obvious, because after all there's no harm in it is there - why not just let them be? Yeah I too, when JK Rowling made us all aware of this 2 or 3 years ago, in my defense of Rowling for all the flack she was getting, was guilty of using incorrect pronouns calling a woman who wanted to be a man "he" to be "respectful". But now I see as more and more of us are doing just how harmful the ideology of transgenderism is, and how acceding to its language distortions and contortions helps its cause even while you believe yourself to be arguing against it.

But maybe you're a little hard on Bari Weiss. She has perhaps not yet got as far as this in her critical thinking. I don't think we need to doubt her motives. She's not on the trans train and there was no doubt as far as I could see in her 'Lia' Thomas article where she stands on the issue in spite of using an incredibly long winded route to get there. But one of the good things about the article was it gave valuable insights into the suffocating mechanical details about how all this repression works at the micro level. Weiss has a lot of followers it seems and out of nearly 900 replies at least half of them were scolding her as you do for not using correct pronouns. (Correct here meaning according to sex and correct English.) I think she'll eventually get real as the rest of us are doing. It's not an easy process, and just a little slip will expose you to vitriolic backlash. I noticed recently that Jennifer Bilek who has done more than most to expose the lies and what's behind them managed to get herself cancelled to the point where even someone like Helen Joyce disassociated herself from her, for so-called 'anti-semitic' comments. When I investigated this accusation I found it rested on nothing more than a single clumsy pondering about whether ancient judaic religious codexes might have some inbuilt predilection toward body denying trans human idealism and that she wrote positively about a video where this theory was elaborated whose author was already consigned to the anti-semitic trash heap. And this is how it all works. Anti-semitic or not (and I have my doubts) that doesn't preclude an author from having something intelligent or useful to say on other topics and in any case you don't yourself become anti-semitic just by admitting you listened to what he had to say. But in a world which has grown intolerant suddenly any association at any level with anyone already tarred can be deadly. Arthur Miller's brilliant play The Crucible demonstrated how it all works. That's the reason Helen Joyce dared not admit she would be listening to Jennifer Bilek in future. Bilek was rightly furious about the betrayal, but that's the price of getting cancelled. Divide and rule. Being cut off from those you counted on. That's the reason the people Weiss spoke to at the swim meet wouldn't say what they really felt and thought about what was going on. At least they spoke to Weiss, and that's what Weiss probably has to weigh up everytime she puts pen to paper. Because the day she gets cancelled for using "incorrect" (i.e. correct) pronouns nobody except us who are already off the fence and firmly rooted in the campaign to uphold reality and biology, will talk to her for fear of cancellation because of guilt by association.

Horrible times we're living in but I'll not be cancelling Bari Weiss for her pronoun misdemeanour.

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Thank you for writing this.

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Yes! I agree completely, but please, "incredibly" not "incredulously". In the third paragraph. They are two different words. All language matters :-)

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