How would you respond to this?

[gendercritter]

Just a quick query. I want to respond to someone's question on Instagram but the wokeness is making my brain hurt. Melissa_Hartwig on there (c274k followers) is asking about describing photos for people with hearing issues.

I love Melissa, she's generally really thoughtful and her business (Whole 30) is great. But she's getting so tied up in knots trying to be kind to everyone and it's ridiculous. I'd like to respond to a query she's raised but don't know quite what to say.

She has a photo of a couple with a child. She's asking for help with how to describe them. If she calls them a man, woman and boy, for example, she is describing the scene accurately to deaf people who want to join in with IG. Great. But then she might be assigning the models the wrong gender identity and causing offence. So she's asking people for guidance so as to be inclusive to everyone.

I can't even process how ridiculous this is. But she has influence. Any idea what to say to her to communicate effectively how stupid this? And to explain that gender identity doesn't exist. It's on her stories if you want to see what she's talking about.

Thank you!

If you say "it looks like a man, a woman and a child" you are not saying anything about their identity, just how they appear to you.

Why do people with hearing issues need a picture described to them?

Apologies - they don't!! It's people with visual impairments. I was reading whilst typing and made a typo.

Is she seeking clarity or is she seeking to signal her virtuousness?

If it's the latter, then she could always say that the picture shows two adults: one, an egg producer and incubator, and the other, an egg fertiliser.

Once upon a time, a long time ago, in a land far, far away, the two adults took turns sitting on the egg.

After nine months, a child was born: a child that was assigned a 'holding' sex category of male/female by a midwife that should have gone to Specsavers. In time, the child would identify his/her own gender, and make the necessary adjustments with drugs and surgery.

And they would all live happily ever after.

I have no clue right now. I think it comes from a genuine desire to be kind and get things right

Many organisations and businesses have been laid low by their efforts to "do the right thing". They have been made to look foolish and they have turned off the people that they are trying to reach.

Cervix holders, menstruators, people with 'front holes', people with prostates ..... all those phrases came from good intentions and virtue signalling. And they all rebounded.

Doing the right thing may not involve complicity with fairy tales, misinformation and the denial of facts about biology.