I’m not normally a conspiracy theory person but I’ve been thinking a bit about the policing of language that has been a feature of the trans debate and wondering why words are so important.
A mad ramble but is it any madder than TWAW?
It started with my DD2 struggling with the concept of DD1 currently living in a time zone 8 hours behind us. Rather than listen to my explanation of time zones she announced “Well I think it’s silly, the time should be the same wherever you are in the world”. I pointed out that in that case the time of day would not bear any relation to day/night, so some people would be getting up in the morning at say 20:00. She countered that if you lived there you would just know what part of the day the time related to and get on with it. We agreed cockerels would still crow at dawn, the sun would rise and set, not much would change. Except I for one would be bloody confused. The words and numbers we use for time would have no meaning in relation to the movement of the sun and the moon and the rhythms of the earth. But if you grew up with it you would probably not have any difficulty knowing where to be and when. At least until you moved to another continent across the earth. Anyway, moving on...
I came across a gem from Planned Parenthood Ottawa about teaching sexual and reproductive anatomy without using the words male or female. Personally I don’t know how you can safely teach the subject without using the words, let’s hope those students don’t want to go into sheep farming or any other type of animal husbandry as I think they may struggle if they don’t know what is male and what is female. But they think you can so my thoughts moved on...what if you took a group of ignorant, uneducated teens and dumped them on an island Lord of the Flies style? Soon they might notice that some of the group had dangly bits and some didn’t. With time I imagine nature and biology would assert itself and they might find that some of the group produced babies. They might notice that this never happened to the owners of the dangly bits.
They might notice other secondary sex features too - beards and breasts for instance. They might observe some babies were born with baby sized dangly bits and others were born without them.
Perhaps they would find words for the different types of people and their anatomical appendages.
In short nothing would be different except the language used, biology rules. Part of the trans narrative is manipulating, and policing our use of what had previously been widely understood meanings for common words such as woman, penis (ladydick), teaching anatomy whilst avoiding use of the words male and female etc. Don’t get me wrong. It bloody infuriates me. Why does it matter so much to them when at the end of the day, the majority of humans will fall into one or the other of the two groups I wonder (they might ask why does it matter so much to me)? Maybe teenage pregnancy rates will go up if they don’t have a clear understanding of their anatomy, it certainly seems sadly regressive to me. In the end though language may change but biology won’t change.
The rolling out of self ID, a concept that goes against all common sense, in countries around the world has been extraordinary. Even tiny Malta has self ID - a staunchly Catholic country that only recently passed laws to allow divorce (2011). Is there really such a demand for self ID there? Yet someone has pushed it through.
We know that the trans movement has some very wealthy sponsors, “philanthropists” such as George Soros and Jennifer Pritzker for instance. Anyone who has read Orwell understands how forced uniformity of opinion and language is a major part of enforcing the will of the state and Havel discusses how enforced use of language bolsters power. I don’t think any of these things are a coincidence.
I wonder if these billionaires are sitting in their gated, protected mansions laughing at us all, enjoying the chaos they have unleashed? It makes me wonder if this is just a first step - testing their power, flexing their muscles and honing the techniques for thought and language control, and the manipulation of politicians to help them achieve their aims. So in my madder moments I wonder what their ultimate goal is, what the long term plot is. Why otherwise have they picked on such a minority interest with which to beat the world into submission? Why are they so interested and invested in this of all things?