Two Politically Toxic Topics in Current Events

Yet again I’m waiting for my doctors office to fax over my refill to my pharmacist. I don’t know if it is COVID related but this has never taken this long. I’m bad for cutting it close between refills but once again I’m completely out. It’s only day two but the withdrawals hit me fast and hard. I just want to quit this prescription to avoid this from happening again as I keep letting this happen. I better not end up with nerve damage, I should be fine it’s just a baby dose of Zoloft. The headaches, chills, twitching and tomorrow I should start randomly feeling flushed and dizzy. It’s going to be fun.

I haven’t been up to any good. I’m not up to anything bad I’m just going through the motions. Matt’s home so it is a full house and so I’ve been trying to make my presence as small as possible. So I’ve been keeping myself radically distracted, on purpose this time. I started JPs book over yet again but this time I managed to focus. For two chapters before I fell asleep. His 12 Steps for Life book. His writing style is boring and I struggle to focus. When I hear people discuss his book negatively though it is usually from feminists who are disturbed by his fan base. Men. Men who are trying to empower themselves with self-improvement books. That appears to be all kinds of wrong for some of these postmodern feminists. Of course, I don’t believe all feminists to be radical but the man-hating ones disappoint me. The ones who use that study about the average earnings between men and women as a political statement to make women feel oppressed disappoint me as well. That study did not show any like for like roles or hours worked and stuff like that. The existence of variance should not be enough to convince anyone that there is a fundamental pattern working against them. The reason for those results can’t possibly be that simple. That study is used to hurt both men and women. I have way too many strong women in my life that I look up to and so I just struggle to believe that women are powerless and vulnerable and need big government to fix all of their problems. I do, however, believe that women do have their own issues that are separate from men and I do want them to keep their spaces, identities and the opportunities that the first few waves of feminism gave them. That makes me a TERF today I believe? Today’s transgenderism is unable to coexist with feminism it seems.

On that note, I also started Abigail Shrier’s book Irreversible Damage the Transgender Craze Seducing our Daughters. This is a women’s health crisis that nobody is talking about. We have speech laws and inclusive laws preventing anyone worth their salt from challenging children who think that they have gender dysphoria. Gender dysphoria was rarely heard of in young women and now FTM dominates within the trans community. We need to be looking at this objectively to see what is going on. Young boys show signs of dysphoria as young as 4 and now we have adolescent girls out of nowhere, in friend groups, that are coming out as trans. Generation Z has different game settings for kids than in previous generations. It appears that young women who would be cutters or goths in my time are just getting testosterone and top surgery today instead. This isn’t giving all of them their best life if they do not possess gender dysphoria. Abigail is a journalist and is trying to sound the alarm on this issue because clinicians are attacked by the alphabet gang when they try to explore this. I want a person with gender dysphoria to get any treatment that they see fit but I do not agree that we should be letting kids make permanent changes to their bodies and biochemistry. In my day I couldn’t even get a tattoo. I also don’t agree that we should be pressuring children into making decisions about their identity that are hard to take back by making them find themself on a spectrum of gender or taxonomy of sexuality long before they’ve even started their sexual development. Before they’ve ever even had any romantic interactions. I don’t want my Prime Minister or mainstream media to be teaching LGBT issues to children Parents should teach them on their own terms. A lot of the girls in Abigail’s study don’t even want to be men, they just don’t want to be women.

In my opinion, the alphabet gang (LGBTQQIP2SAA), appears to has a pretty strict idea about what a woman is supposed to be. When you look at the kind of women gay men fetishize. When you look at how drag queens dress and how they imitate women… Don’t get me wrong, I still love drag race but these are men defining women at the end of the day. Gender as a social construct still confuses me. Some aspects, sure. I’m open to that. Some kids are shown a portrait of a gingerbread man cookie. The word gender is pointed at the head, sexuality at the heart and sex and the crotch. Is that a full and/or accurate representation of a person? Such a simple diagram but I’m lost. Anyway, long story short, there is more than one way to be a woman and it doesn’t have to be “girly”. My lesbian friends are “butch” and still proud to be women and they do not agree to call themselves non-binary. I know that this opinion goes against the ethos on the left and that my character and morality will be put to trial here but these are just observations. I am trying to understand why and how we got to this point where young girls are sterilizing themselves with massive amounts of hormones and removing their breasts and becoming life long patients without having any gender dysphoria whatsoever.

I honestly did not know that my entry was going to go this way. Me committing social suicide.