1) I fight existential threats AND Gender Identity Ideology. I do both. It's not an either/or thing. In fact, it's a must-do-both-thing. (See 3 below on that.)
2)The damage from Gender Identity Ideology being forced on us all... is real and huge, and people won't ignore it, no matter how much you admonish us to do so. You think it's minor because you're not seeing most of it. Erasure has already happened, as all of us who are depublished, deplatformed, fired, assaulted at speaker's corners, and more can attest, but you don't see us. You join the travesty of pretending we don't exist and/or that we've got our knickers in a twist over nothing important... You need to open your eyes; read/hear what we say! When girls are having their healthy breasts amputated & kids are going on blockers and hormones that stymie brain/bone/organ maturation, parents and other caring people are simply not going to ignore that. (The #s are huge; those who claim otherwise in comments are wrong.) When women in prisons in the US share their cells with men-in-woman-face, people are not going to say, "Oh well, not important." Or "Oh well, I feel sorry for the women who've been raped already (numerous) and those yet to endure that fate, but I'm going to ignore it." (1000s of men want into women's prisons in U.S.) If you're child is taught absolute anti-science drivel at school that guts their ability to think critically and denies them a basic grasp of biology and even reality, you're not going to ignore it. See my new article on this: https://caroldansereau.substack.com/p/the-anti-science-disaster-of-gender Bottom line, pontificate as much as you want Caitlin about what people should ignore; it ain't gonna happen.
3) There is a huge opportunity here to build a movement to demand system change. The people I now organize with, as the result of my decision to stand against the woke madness of Gender Ideology are working class, courageous, and concerned about all sorts of issues not just Gender. Many are indeed confused; they see socialism as the root of the Gender Cult, etc. But there's a reason for that. Most socialist organizations and many other groups on the Left are letting the Gender Madness spread, and even applauding it. The problem is not that some people are anti-woke; it's that so many are not, yourself included Caitlin. You are handing fascistic forces the future on a platter, because THEY talk sense on Gender Identity. And you ignore the reality of what's happening in its name.
You are wrong on this one, Caitlin. And it matters very much
Thank you Carol (& glad I found your substack). I read (most of) your article about the ridiculousness being taught in schools ... this especially resonates ~ "What’s happening in the schools is nothing short of Orwellian. Children learn that men are women, self-loathing is self-love, delivering children to life-long medical dependency and harm is compassion, telling the truth is hateful, and silencing those who question dogma is righteous. This primes them to bow their heads and comply with official dogma, no matter how nonsensical it is. It primes them to join authoritarian mobs that attack anyone who dissents."
Yes, and also primes them to believe that War is Peace, if that's what the powers that be say .. to believe how things are told to them instead of what is actually happening (ie billions of dollars for war when people are hungry here) ...
Teen Vogue, of course they are teaching children biology .. with the same competence as they gave medical advice all through covid ...
(And, apparently there are more genders than there are stars in the sky, at least according to this theater company, who still insist on vaccine passports - https://outfronttheatre.com/terms-to-know/ )
While it’s certainly true that most people do not understand what woke-ism is and that bad-faith right-wingers have profited off of the confusion, the actual problem of wokeness is quite serious. I feel that the same kinds of sophistry underlie both wokeness and regime hegemonism, and one can and must fight both at once. Caitlin is way off base here.
You are missing so much, Caitlin!
1) I fight existential threats AND Gender Identity Ideology. I do both. It's not an either/or thing. In fact, it's a must-do-both-thing. (See 3 below on that.)
2)The damage from Gender Identity Ideology being forced on us all... is real and huge, and people won't ignore it, no matter how much you admonish us to do so. You think it's minor because you're not seeing most of it. Erasure has already happened, as all of us who are depublished, deplatformed, fired, assaulted at speaker's corners, and more can attest, but you don't see us. You join the travesty of pretending we don't exist and/or that we've got our knickers in a twist over nothing important... You need to open your eyes; read/hear what we say! When girls are having their healthy breasts amputated & kids are going on blockers and hormones that stymie brain/bone/organ maturation, parents and other caring people are simply not going to ignore that. (The #s are huge; those who claim otherwise in comments are wrong.) When women in prisons in the US share their cells with men-in-woman-face, people are not going to say, "Oh well, not important." Or "Oh well, I feel sorry for the women who've been raped already (numerous) and those yet to endure that fate, but I'm going to ignore it." (1000s of men want into women's prisons in U.S.) If you're child is taught absolute anti-science drivel at school that guts their ability to think critically and denies them a basic grasp of biology and even reality, you're not going to ignore it. See my new article on this: https://caroldansereau.substack.com/p/the-anti-science-disaster-of-gender Bottom line, pontificate as much as you want Caitlin about what people should ignore; it ain't gonna happen.
3) There is a huge opportunity here to build a movement to demand system change. The people I now organize with, as the result of my decision to stand against the woke madness of Gender Ideology are working class, courageous, and concerned about all sorts of issues not just Gender. Many are indeed confused; they see socialism as the root of the Gender Cult, etc. But there's a reason for that. Most socialist organizations and many other groups on the Left are letting the Gender Madness spread, and even applauding it. The problem is not that some people are anti-woke; it's that so many are not, yourself included Caitlin. You are handing fascistic forces the future on a platter, because THEY talk sense on Gender Identity. And you ignore the reality of what's happening in its name.
You are wrong on this one, Caitlin. And it matters very much
Thank you Carol (& glad I found your substack). I read (most of) your article about the ridiculousness being taught in schools ... this especially resonates ~ "What’s happening in the schools is nothing short of Orwellian. Children learn that men are women, self-loathing is self-love, delivering children to life-long medical dependency and harm is compassion, telling the truth is hateful, and silencing those who question dogma is righteous. This primes them to bow their heads and comply with official dogma, no matter how nonsensical it is. It primes them to join authoritarian mobs that attack anyone who dissents."
Yes, and also primes them to believe that War is Peace, if that's what the powers that be say .. to believe how things are told to them instead of what is actually happening (ie billions of dollars for war when people are hungry here) ...
Teen Vogue, of course they are teaching children biology .. with the same competence as they gave medical advice all through covid ...
(And, apparently there are more genders than there are stars in the sky, at least according to this theater company, who still insist on vaccine passports - https://outfronttheatre.com/terms-to-know/ )
Yes, and more Yes.
While it’s certainly true that most people do not understand what woke-ism is and that bad-faith right-wingers have profited off of the confusion, the actual problem of wokeness is quite serious. I feel that the same kinds of sophistry underlie both wokeness and regime hegemonism, and one can and must fight both at once. Caitlin is way off base here.