Progressivism, I realized about ten years ago, is a mortuary cult. I also realized some years ago that feminism is leading people off a cliff. My generation, encouraged to remain childless, beget many childless women who live alone in big cities. As my mother gets too old to take care of herself, with four children to advocate for her, I…
Progressivism, I realized about ten years ago, is a mortuary cult. I also realized some years ago that feminism is leading people off a cliff. My generation, encouraged to remain childless, beget many childless women who live alone in big cities. As my mother gets too old to take care of herself, with four children to advocate for her, I can't help wondering who will advocate for all these women (and men too, for that matter) who ate the narrative that they were doing themselves a favor by remaining childless. This is not to say that the "only" reason to have children is for care when one is elderly (I used that one against myself once upon a time), but that one really ought to consider the impact of one's current actions on one's future. I follow a Facebook group on caring for elderly parents and it's astonishing how much work this entails. I've often thought that the only solution for me and many people I know will be assisted suicide. And don't you know the Canadian Government can save millions in health care costs by making it easy for people to kill themselves.
And meanwhile, the health care system makes tons of money slicing off penises and breasts and injecting hormones and doing corrective surgeries on perfectly healthy bodies.
So unnecessary medicalization makes money. And letting you kill yourself after destroying your body or just...following the Pied Piper's narrative off a cliff...makes the world "a better place."
I've been watching a documentary called Detransitioners on youtube in which several women who've masculinized themselves express why they felt the need to transition: "MISOGYNY." They then parrot this ridiculous narrative -- one can hear the robotic ingestion of said narrative -- oh, you know, being a woman is to be a second class citizen, blah blah -- in the 21st century? I didn't even get this in the 70s! It's literally insane.
Welcome to the matriarchy! With women's "compassion" in charge -- instead of that "toxic masculinity" -- we get sterilized, suicidal youth, and, well, no reason to live.
A society drowning in immaturity, where people refuse to have children because they want to be the kids themselves. Where people go through life whining like children at how unfair it all is, and retreat to safe spaces at the slightest hint of adversity. Where people expect the government to take care of them as a benevolent parent, and pretend that their pets are their children.
Is it any wonder that such a society is fast approaching “Lord of the Flies” territory?
While I agree with much of what you say (or at least the gist), I do have to say that in Canada there is no money to be made with trans surgeries or trans care. It's a huge cost to the system, and even physicians don't make that much money in providing the care. It's strictly ideology driven here. In the USA it is very different - it's a huge money maker.
Why do they want to permanently cripple these children both mentally and physically?
I was a teenager; you were a teenager. Didn't you hold beliefs that you later changed your mind on? I know I did. Imagine to suddenly decide at your mid or late 20's that you want to be the gender you were born, to have children, etc. and you can't. How cruel is that?
So right! Unfortunately these people can’t see past the next hour of their life, as selfish as they’ve been encouraged to be, nevertheless think about a future that is decades away.
Women have never been 2nd class. What passes for modern feminism is what happens when you view the past through the standards of the present. The present sensibilities could not exist without having passed through the past.
Lynne, this is so beautifully written, such a concise and lucid unravelling of the contemporary distortion in our thinking.
Jordan Peterson has spoken at times about how men and women have, for most of history, had to fight together for survival and continuity in a world far more dangerous than the one most of us live in now. I have always been moved by that vision, which strikes me as eminently reasonable: nature is hostile and life is short and unsure. Whether we have God or nature to thank, the fact that most people who have ever lived have done so cupped inside the social miracle that a family is ought to fill us with gratitude.
Progressivism, I realized about ten years ago, is a mortuary cult. I also realized some years ago that feminism is leading people off a cliff. My generation, encouraged to remain childless, beget many childless women who live alone in big cities. As my mother gets too old to take care of herself, with four children to advocate for her, I can't help wondering who will advocate for all these women (and men too, for that matter) who ate the narrative that they were doing themselves a favor by remaining childless. This is not to say that the "only" reason to have children is for care when one is elderly (I used that one against myself once upon a time), but that one really ought to consider the impact of one's current actions on one's future. I follow a Facebook group on caring for elderly parents and it's astonishing how much work this entails. I've often thought that the only solution for me and many people I know will be assisted suicide. And don't you know the Canadian Government can save millions in health care costs by making it easy for people to kill themselves.
And meanwhile, the health care system makes tons of money slicing off penises and breasts and injecting hormones and doing corrective surgeries on perfectly healthy bodies.
So unnecessary medicalization makes money. And letting you kill yourself after destroying your body or just...following the Pied Piper's narrative off a cliff...makes the world "a better place."
I've been watching a documentary called Detransitioners on youtube in which several women who've masculinized themselves express why they felt the need to transition: "MISOGYNY." They then parrot this ridiculous narrative -- one can hear the robotic ingestion of said narrative -- oh, you know, being a woman is to be a second class citizen, blah blah -- in the 21st century? I didn't even get this in the 70s! It's literally insane.
Welcome to the matriarchy! With women's "compassion" in charge -- instead of that "toxic masculinity" -- we get sterilized, suicidal youth, and, well, no reason to live.
A society drowning in immaturity, where people refuse to have children because they want to be the kids themselves. Where people go through life whining like children at how unfair it all is, and retreat to safe spaces at the slightest hint of adversity. Where people expect the government to take care of them as a benevolent parent, and pretend that their pets are their children.
Is it any wonder that such a society is fast approaching “Lord of the Flies” territory?
While I agree with much of what you say (or at least the gist), I do have to say that in Canada there is no money to be made with trans surgeries or trans care. It's a huge cost to the system, and even physicians don't make that much money in providing the care. It's strictly ideology driven here. In the USA it is very different - it's a huge money maker.
Why do they want to permanently cripple these children both mentally and physically?
I was a teenager; you were a teenager. Didn't you hold beliefs that you later changed your mind on? I know I did. Imagine to suddenly decide at your mid or late 20's that you want to be the gender you were born, to have children, etc. and you can't. How cruel is that?
So right! Unfortunately these people can’t see past the next hour of their life, as selfish as they’ve been encouraged to be, nevertheless think about a future that is decades away.
If there is no God and no ultimate morality then you can do whatever you want and justify it to yourself.
Women have never been 2nd class. What passes for modern feminism is what happens when you view the past through the standards of the present. The present sensibilities could not exist without having passed through the past.
Lynne, this is so beautifully written, such a concise and lucid unravelling of the contemporary distortion in our thinking.
Jordan Peterson has spoken at times about how men and women have, for most of history, had to fight together for survival and continuity in a world far more dangerous than the one most of us live in now. I have always been moved by that vision, which strikes me as eminently reasonable: nature is hostile and life is short and unsure. Whether we have God or nature to thank, the fact that most people who have ever lived have done so cupped inside the social miracle that a family is ought to fill us with gratitude.
His Substack goes along with your thinking on women's new roles and the current gender issues.
https://charleseisenstein.substack.com/p/feminine-power?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=427455&post_id=76475136&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email