the bully
Sun 6.4.23
I approach today’s essay on a subject most of us are, unfortunately, familiar with . . . the bully. Megyn Kelly has published a video on YouTube,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxB0LHvS4fg&t=45s&ab_channel=MegynKelly
in which she addresses the trans phenomenon. It’s well thought out, thoroughly covered and powerful. She becomes a bit tearful . . . and so do I, listening to it.
I follow people commenting on social blogs, and at some point I became aware of the effect the lies we are subjected to on a daily basis has a very strong negative effect. I would even add that such an effect on the body has consequences much like unhappiness does. Constant governmental, social lies, and especially the corrosive type, wears away at the body. One is constantly being exposed to statements and actions that are not part of the reality one lives in. The thought behind this “brain washing” is that one is worn down and cowered by these tactics, one is shamed into giving privileges and entitlements to some people among us, but not to others. We are pitted against each other like mad dogs. Let’s you and them fight so you’re too busy to notice what we’re doing.
It has gone too far. I’m glad that my grandmother, a proud and principled woman, a devout Catholic practitioner, died before being subjected to the trans and gay parades tramping down the main streets of America. Marianne would be horrified at this business of small children, much like the operatic castrati of former times, having their sexual lives cut short at the president’s urging, that women and girls are placed in danger in their very private gatherings, denigrated in their areas of expertise, their bodies, its strength, their games and sports. And then they are shamed by the trans’ being honored as super women in the media, on Vogue magazine, even in women’s beauty contests! No, they are not women, but a special category that suffers dysphoria, a disconnection with the reality of their physical body. Was all this shaming good to make us aware of their situation? No, we’ve known all along. It’s obvious to all when seeing a person of a certain gender trying to pass as the other what was happening. That we need to be generous-hearted to those who do not share our world view goes without saying.
Why is this happening? Because we are being shamed into accepting false scenarios. Do black lives matter? No, all American lives matter. How couold we have fallen for it? Why are there violent confrontations between blacks and the police? We are not allowed to ask such questions or talk on the subject without blaming ourselves. But it’s a documented fact that they commit more violence than others in the US, that they are encouraged to believe they are owed because their ancestors suffered so at the hands of the US government. What happened to blacks is a horror, let’s not skip over that. It cannot be made to disappear, and the more efforts made to ameliorate the situation the worse it gets. It’s like Clarence Thomas said (I’m paraphrasing) giving a Harvard scolarship to a black condemns him to a life in which it will always be assumed that without the scholarship he never would have made it thus reinforcing the very negative stereotypes against them. Did you know that at one time in the US when a woman married, she was no longer a person; by law, she lost the right of personhood and would forever after be the legal property of husband. Does that entitle them to reparation?
We cannot make these abuses go away. It is each person’s duty and privilege to make of its life what it will regardless of their circumstances.
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