New Zeitgeist Term of the Week: "TERF"
If we have learned anything in 2019, it is the reality that the far left is a religious cult. They enforce a strict rule of code that if one violates it, there is quick and sudden condemnation. The latest is author J.K. Rowling. Rowling is a self-identified feminist, but she made the awful, terrible decision to challenge a portion of the intersectional order. In a recent tweet, she commented on transgender identity:
Dress however you please.Call yourself whatever you like.Sleep with any consenting adult who’ll have you.Live your best life in peace and security.But force women out of their jobs for stating that sex is real? #IStandWithMaya #ThisIsNotADrill— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) December 19, 2019
That tweet sparked outrage among the transgender community, hence the new Zeitgeist Term of the Week: TERF. What is a TERF you ask? A TERF is an intersectional slur that stands for "trans-exclusionary radical feminist." That's right: a radical feminist like Rowling is a TERF if she has the audacity to challenge the effort by trans-men to replace women.This is where the radical left goes from crazy to absurd. Here's the logic: feminists have fought for women's rights for decades. Now men who identify as women can enter into the roles women have fought for thus defeating the decades of struggle for rights that feminists have fought for.The most visible area where you see this intersectional craziness is in sports. Gender confused men are entering into women's sports as women and quickly dominate that sport. And if a woman happens to raise her hand and question the fairness of this new reality, she is quickly shamed and silenced. If she happens to be a feminist who questions the saneness of men taking a woman's place because they identify as a woman, then she is publicly labeled a TERF.Remember, things are not falling apart, they are falling into place.
Satire Drives Home Painful Truth: Why My Wife And I Decided To Abort Our Unborn Gay Son
Many times satire is used to drive home painful, unavoidable truths. Enter exhibit A. The Federalist published an article last week that hits on all points of the cultural absurdity we find ourselves at the hands of the Cult of Progressivism. Intersectionality is one of the most absurd, illogical philosophies to plague a culture. It simply doesn’t make sense. Yet, in many ways, these are rules the Progressives live. It is a core doctrine.Stephen Lavedas published an essay titled, “Why My Wife And I Decided To Abort Our Unborn Gay Son.” It is brilliant. What is truly sad is that, like many pieces of brilliant satire, many leftists won’t even get it. They will be outraged that someone could be so cruel and inhuman to abort a child simply because he is gay. Here is just a taste of Lavedas’ brilliance:
We got to the clinic almost an hour early. They made us sit in the waiting room for a while and finally called us back, but instead of walking us into a table with stirrups like we expected, they escorted us into an office. A man in a lab coat was waiting at a desk.“I recognize you,” he said, after looking at us sternly for what seemed like an eternity. I didn’t know what to say, so I didn’t say anything. My wife didn’t speak either. “What you are doing should be a hate crime, and I won’t have any part in it,” the man said, looking angry.“But it’s my body,” my wife said, sounding defiant, but like a little girl too. “It’s my right.”“It’s hateful,” the doctor responds. “You are terminating this pregnancy because you don’t want a gay child. Are gay children less valuable than straight children?” He sounded like a teacher trying to impart a lesson to a very slow student.“No, but—” my wife started to say.“A gay child has just as much value as a straight child. In fact, you are lucky! Gay children are very rare. Census numbers put the number of homosexuals in America at around 3 percent. It wouldn’t take many more people like you,” he nearly spits the words, “to eliminate homosexuality in America. That’s genocide, and I won’t have that on my conscience!”With that, we were ushered out. My wife cried all the way home. When we got there, we found that someone had firebombed our rented townhouse and wrote “Bigotry Doesn’t Belong Here!” and “Love Wins!” in spray paint on the sidewalk. I guess some fetuses are more equal than others, but I can’t understand it. I just followed all the arguments I’ve heard from our society to their logical conclusions.
A piece like this will never win a Pulitzer Prize, but it deserves an award of equal stature. It is brilliant. Read it and weep for our country.