accordingtohoyt posted: " Yes, of course we make fun when someone starts being hailed as "Stunning Brave" by the left. Because you know, some things are inevitable. One of them is people who are hailed as stunning, brave! by the left are doing things that have almost zero "
Yes, of course we make fun when someone starts being hailed as "Stunning Brave" by the left. Because you know, some things are inevitable.
One of them is people who are hailed as stunning, brave! by the left are doing things that have almost zero chance of bringing any backlash, let along a higher price.
So mostly we sit around in shock at the stunning bravery of claiming some kind of heroism for, oh, being a climate alarmist -- something already taught to every kid in school 20 years ago -- or for "coming out" as gay, tolerance for which has also been taught in schools for 30 years, or for -- say -- saying that you think women are superior to men (which has been the unstated push of every school for decades -- or for making fun of Christianity, which, yes, deeply offends the majority of this country (and large swathes of Europe) but which is so extremely unlikely to bring revenge down on your head as for that to be almost impossible.
Look, I'm not saying that iconoclastic defiance can't be beneficial to a society. In a way, if art challenges the status-quo, we get the possibility of the culture correcting itself when it goes down some extreme insanity (oh, say, the covidiocy) without a big bloody revolution.
We know what super-compliant cultures are, from China, and we don't want it. How many times have they burned it all down, then burned the books, and started over, in the same blinkered authoritarian way?
That's not conducive to a future that's better than the past (As G-d and Heinlein intended.)
What I'm saying is that what we're seeing is not iconoclastic defiance. It's in fact people pretending to be defiant, and to be in some kind of danger of backlash, while echoing the words that those power say, and the ideas they push on us.
What all the #sostunningbrave women (and men, but it's mostly women) are doing is the equivalent of standing up in the middle of the class and telling teacher "Look, I know you might punish me for it, but I have to tell you that dress is beautiful, and it makes you look stunning. Also, you're the best teacher I've ever had, so profoundly knowledgeable and caring."
You can say you expect backlash, but you KNOW you're going to get praised and rewarded. It is in fact why you're doing that. Because you want the applause, but want to make it sound like you're not a total suck up. which you are, of course.
You know what things take bravery to say?
Well, it's become a joke among gay conservatives that coming out as gay was easy, it's coming out as conservative that risks getting you fired or even physically attacked, if you work in certain fields and places.
But it doesn't take that much. When you have a supreme court nominee afraid to -- in any way -- define a woman, you know the fear is real, the cancellations are real, and saying the simplest things like "women give birth" can get you expunged from the world of respectable people.
And yet, you know, reality goes on. Yes, body dismorphia is real, but if you're born a biological female, you can give birth, if you're not you cannot. And no amount of wishing will make it so.
Which means the rest of us need to be stunning brave for real, and stand up and proclaim the truth: inequality is just a symptom of freedom. The only way to have a society be completely equalitarian is to be a brutal, totalitarian repressive regime. (And even then, the ones at the top get perks. Biologically there are men and there are women. Yeah, you might feel like something else, and we are more or less -- most of the time -- decent human beings, so we're not going to stop you living like you want to, or doing to yourself whatever you want to do to yourself, but stop denying that biological sex exists and has a meaning. And stop pushing this on children too young to know there is such a thing as sex, much less which they "feel" like. Because as of right now, people can't actually change sexes. They can just take a lot of drugs and have surgery to make it seem like they did. But the side effects include a 4 times higher risk of cancer and sterilization. And if you're an adult, you have the right to choose that for yourself, but kids don't.
Other things. So many things you can say, including that no, in fact going against imaginary unbreakable rules of the imaginary 1950s by oh, wearing daring clothing, or swearing isn't stunning brave. It's just .... reinforcing the current rules.
In fact these days you can get attacked, cancelled or destroyed for saying "Good morning" or something equally innocuous. You don't have to go against heir big, flamboyant precepts to get attacked or destroyed.
Sometimes it's just what you are. Say, male, or worse male and white.
And sometimes it's that you say something that was accepted until this morning, but the party has changed the line, and now 2 + 2 =43 and math is racist.
Look, society can't go on like that. It is a mark of true evil that it takes everything apart and creates chaos.
Telling the truth can destroy you, but sometimes you have to do it. Let's start with those of us who have less to lose -- like me, like the rest of us who are on the lee-side of 50 and 60 -- and maybe we'll make it safe for the new generation to make a different future.
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