And in October, after Dr. Rachel Levine made history as with her appointment as a four-star admiral, Tucker Carlson blew a gasket, declaring on his show that “the Biden administration declared that a biological man who wears a dress is now a female admiral…. You have to ask yourself how long will it be before Joe Biden appoints his horse to the Supreme Court.” I didn’t even know Joe Biden had a horse.
Not knowing the story about Caligula is not as big a comeback and put down as this journalist might think.
This is also fun:
“We live in a society that is fundamentally transphobic by virtue of the fact that being cisgender is positioned as normative”
Well, yes, in humans, it is. If it weren’t there wouldn’t be this insistence on surgery. If myriad sexes exist and all are fine then why would adjustment to one of two make sense?
“We live in a society that is fundamentally transphobic by virtue of the fact that being cisgender is positioned as normative”
A statement that’s very difficult to disagree with.
’ There was a time when J.K. Rowling was just the author of one of the most beloved book series ever written, and not also the person who fears sharing a bathroom with “any man who believes or feels he’s a woman.”’
I know, I know, it’s Salon, so it’s speaking to an audience of about 50 people but…she surely can’t think that that’s an unusual fear to have, can she?
If the Yanks have a cross-dressing admiral, I suspect Caligula’s horse would do a better job.
What makes some people hold transphobic views?
Usually, meeting a tranny will do the trick.
Cisgender being positioned as normative.
No. cisgender is just plain normal. If you want to be abnormal you do it on your own time. And stop using big words you only half understand.
Let’s get it straight (hoho) – LGBTQ / make it up as you go along / likes dressing up as farmyard animals etc. may all be natural, but normal they most certainly are not.
. . . cisgender is just plain normal.
Except I don’t remember ever seeing this term “cisgender” until society allowed itself to be defined by the transgender narrative*. It’s a bit like having to constantly call yourself “straight” to be differentiated from “bent”. Why is the vast majority of normal people being labelled and othered by a tiny minority of the abnormal?
Whether it’s from within or without, eventually this bullshit will be swept aside. The longer it’s indulged the worse the inevitable outcome will be for the weirdos.
*
Even the spellchecker has never heard of “cisgender”. I prefer it to remain a glaring error rather than add it to the dictionary.
Rachel Levine? An interesting case. I tried to find out the name he was given at birth, but Woke Wiki and the BBC don’t give it.
What’s even more scary than having a freak like that in a position of responsibility, though, is that you can become a Four-Star Admiral because you are a good paediatrician.
What’s even more scary than having a freak like that in a position of responsibility, though, is that you can become a Four-Star Admiral because you are a good paediatrician.
Imagine taking your sick child to see Dr. Pennywise the Transing Clown, lol
I think they’d have a miraculous, Lourdes-like recovery before you reached the car park.
@ Sam Vara.
Rather perfectly, before removal Rachel’s original name was Richard.
“There was a time when J.K. Rowling was … not also the person who fears sharing a bathroom with “any man who believes or feels he’s a woman.”
I very much doubt that.
I don’t see the problem. There are already a couple of mares on the Supreme Court.
Clearly Mary Elizabeth Williams is a DEEP THINKER. One of her other articles at Salon:
Could ending period poverty be the secret to world peace?
A better world through better menstrual health?
Well, you certainly don’t want the person with the nuke codes feeling cross due to cramps, but other than that I fail to see the connection between world peace, Midol and crammers.
Levine is a four-star admiral in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps.
Yeah, I didn’t care either.
The commissioned corps’ primary mission is the protection, promotion, and advancement of health and safety of the general public. How do they do that? Who the fuck knows.
And once you find out what the USPHS Commissioned Corps is – and does – you realize Levine has the status normally reserved for the sort of folks to who rise just above the ranks of those doing health inspections of restaurants.
This prompted me to look this up. A major arm – most by people I think – of this uniformed service is the Indian Health Service. So we’ve a 4 * admiral running the worst health care system in the US. One that tends to be concentrated about as far from the sea as it is possible to get to – Four Corners and the like.
Sounds about right for bureaucracy.
We live in a society that is fundamentally transphobic by virtue of the fact that being cisgender is positioned as normative.
The word positioned is practically creaking under the strain.
Somewhat related:
“All that we’re asking…” says he.
It’s also worth noting that the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps consists of nothing but “officers”. No enlisted ranks. Ranks start at Ensign and to to Admiral. And they’re considered non-commissioned by all branches of the armed forces.
“Admiral” Levine couldn’t give an order to a Seaman Recruit and make it stick.
Actually, she probably couldn’t give orders to a pack of uniformed dental hygienists and make it stick.
“We live in a society that is fundamentally transphobic by virtue of the fact that being cisgender is positioned as normative”
Yes.. When you realise that almost all gays (m/f) are also cis you’re talking about 99.95%-ish of humanity. (99,95% to confirm to SI regs)
If that isn’t normal and normative I don’t know what is….
Um, SI demands a comma? You’ll prise the decimal point out of my cold dead hands!
On the subject of NCO Admirals, that’s one large case of self-aggrandisement by that organisation. Perhaps they have a deep need to be respected because in reality they ain’t.
Playing dress up as a woman is less disturbing than the make believe that the deputy head of the department of health is a four-star admiral. It’s bizarre the Yanks think the Department of Health need to Walt in military uniforms.
I haven’t seen men set so poorly turned out in women’s military uniform since I saw Royal Marines on a run ashore in Union Street 25 years ago.
@TG Heresy!! It is the divine lot of the decimal point to separate the 10^3 blocks!! [grumble] uncultured barbarians. [/grumble] 😛
Mind.. it will fine, probably… As long as you’re not an engineer at Boeing or somesuch.. 😉
Normative is not the same as normal.
Normative is an evaluative standard based on normality – that is, the idea that cisgender is normative means that it is better by the fact that it is normal. Seems perfectly reasonable for trans people to say that being cisgender might be normal, but it’s not normative.
Just as one journalist should have looked up the story about Caligula, so Worstall should have looked up the definition of normative and not just assumed it was a fancy word for normal.
Given that economics goes on, and on, and on, about how it is a positive science, not a normative one, I know, thank you.
Seems perfectly reasonable for trans people to say that being cisgender might be normal, but it’s not normative.
Seems equally reasonable for normal people to reply “Bullshit”.
And please don’t ask for an explanation of why, because doing so will only prove my point.
“Normative” is just some bullshit made-up word so it can be used in straw-man arguments to put you an the back foot. None of the changed people I know(*) use it, or any of the other made-up batshit.
(*)Ok, a grand total of three.
A more analogous comment, surely, would be “how long will it be before Joe Biden appoints a pantomime horse to the Supreme Court.”
wat dabney said:
“A more analogous comment, surely, would be “how long will it be before Joe Biden appoints a pantomime horse to the Supreme Court.””
I don’t think she can be on the Court and Veep at the same time.