“There are a lot of conversations happening right now,” said Dana Beyer, a physician and longtime trans activist in Maryland. “People know the movement is stuck. They know we’ve gone too far. They know we’ve lost the thread.”
I like this useful self-awareness. This is a step in the right direction.
The L.G.B.T.Q. movement drove itself toward a cliff — and took the Democratic Party with it, chaining the Biden administration to one of the most divisive issues in American politics.
Yes. But there’s a reason why this happened and, of course, the article was published in the NYTimes, so it would be futile to expect it to go beyond superficialities. The real problem is that the entire Democrat agenda is at odds with reality. Liberals don’t have a working theory of the mind. They can’t make their ideas coexist with the laws of nature. Their understanding of how individuals and groups function is grounded in almost childish myth-making. People who control academia should be able to produce ideas with ease. Yet they are signally incapable of coming up with anything beyond the hubristic tantrums of the modern Left.
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Remember back when it was all “any compassionate person can see that I need to be able to visit my partner in the hospital” and “the law shouldn’t bother with what consenting adults do behind closed doors?”
Those were the days, eh?
I deleted a comment from a public post today because, while sort of relevant to the topic, the commenter led with “you probably don’t cruise for hookups on gay dating sites…” or somesuch. Well, no. But do you open every conversation with a total stranger by announcing that you do? Coincidentally, this person also has an alphabet-people blog.
I’m trying to think of an analog. What would that look like, if I made my entire life about my sexual preferences, and led every conversation with them? “Speaking of Oxford commas, I’m into long-term, married, and joyous monogamy.”
Long before we got to installing porn in school libraries and lopping off kids’ genitals as a human right, that movement rolled right over the edge when instead of settling for “just leave us alone and treat us like everybody else” it moved into “I will make every conversation about my sex preferences (whether it’s appropriate or not), and then if you don’t react positively, you’re oppressing me.” It’s just that we don’t typically take legal/political action against people for being obnoxious and socially inappropriate. Thank God.
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If a heterosexual college administrator called an all-college meeting and gave a 30-minute talk about every woman he ever slept with, he’d be hounded until the end of the world for sexual harassment. And rightfully so because people deserve not to be forced to hear these things at work.
But when our Dean did exactly that, it was perfectly fine. Because he’s gay. So yeah, I was very willing not to care what people do behind closed doors. And then they chased me down and forced me to find out.
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The Holy Grail of social sciences, the thing that academics have devoted their lives (in vain) to chasing down, is a theory that has more predictive power than an ethnic stereotype.
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