it is a good thing people is having less kids or none at all…the world is nuts
Gérard Biard on August 24, 2022
Do we have the right to laugh at everything, and especially at the latest Planned Parenthood poster, without being called a reactionary and transphobic scoundrel? Do we have the right to wonder about the relevance of his speech without being immediately sent to the fascistosphere? Let’s summarize the thing: we see a couple sitting on a sofa. But not just any couple. A trans man (a biological woman who has adopted a male gender identity), “racialized” for good measure, who is expecting a child, since biology is ultimately good, hand in hand with his/her spouse, a trans woman (a biological male who has adopted a female gender identity) who sports a stunning three-day beard. This is to explain to us that “men can also be pregnant” and that you shouldn’t believe everything you are told in Biology class. Why laugh and why wonder? you may ask. Because we find there the demonstration that a small drawing is not always better than a long militant speech. And because Family Planning, by dint of wanting to keep up with the times, is gradually losing the sense of its primary mission – and oh so essential – that of a secular and universalist feminist association committed to the fight for reproductive rights and equality between men and women.
“Decolonial” thought, “intersectionality”, “non-mixing”, the fight against “Islamophobia”, respect for “identities” and “cultures”, “modesty” in dress – hear: wearing the hijab – are now the keywords of Planning activists, to the point of, for some, refusing to take a stand against female circumcision, in the name of “everyone’s free choice”. Touched by the trendy grace of non-binarity, the association also transforms itself on occasion, as we can see with this campaign, into the mouthpiece of the most radical transactivism. And the most abstruse. They have also made available to their troops a “trans glossary” allowing them to navigate the jungle of gender-neutral terminology. They will know that “it is important to understand that a lesbian couple can, for example, consist of a cis woman and a trans woman, or that a gay man can have a vulva. It can also happen for example that a transmasculine person, although not defining herself as a woman, keeps her political identity as a dyke (reappropriation of the insult)”. Which can be very useful for reading this poster, because it is possible that, in this couple – who deserves to be helped like the others, but who must represent 0.000 001% of the cases that Planning is called upon to treat – the racialized trans man is a dyke, and the bearded trans woman is gay with a vulva. But if it is, tshe cispasses (do your best to find the definition). Why laugh about it? In your opinion?
They are right
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Did that poster harm anyone? No.
Did that article harm anyone? Probably.
Based and absolutely correct. But I doubt a geniuine discussion about this can be had on Reddit since one side gets banned by the admins each time they voice their opinion
This is the most erudite and learned centrist dad, words are words, independent thinker take I have ever seen. I mean, It is bullshit and It stops being coherent 3/4 in, probably because the word limit was looming which is ironic considering his earlier point about needing time to explain things; but It is well thought and explained bullshit.
I completely agree that in our eagerness to release our LGTBQ+ brethren from all the horrors we have always set upon them, it’s easy to be overzealous, non-communicative and sometimes too eager. And Christ do some creative people need to stay away from campaigning.
But I do not agree that It is a)always bad b)worth stopping or even stalling the right of a wrong that is still happening as of today.
Which leads me to c) I don’t give two fucks what some butthurt conservative thinks about timing and messaging on this issue. I am currently reading Perlman’s Nixonland and the paralells are eerie regarding Civil Rights and the politickyeering the Republicans fell in when they had to choose between the right thing and power.
Any attenpt to wrap that up in some nice paper with ribbons with words like “freedom of speech” or “I identify as an attack helicopter” or “everybody has rights, wink wink” is primo 100% bullshit and oh boy is It telling when the first thing the writer does is soiling himself with his “I’m going to be called a transphobe for this but that is okay because I am right” from his high pedestal.
But again, brownie points for the nicely wrapped turd.
Gosh I dislike Charlie Hebdo so much. What’s both funny and sad is that they’ve “lost their identity” as well.
I find that poster offensive: it’s ableist.
The main idea of the article is that Planned Parenthood is losing its identy as a feminist association due to wokism.
I personally don’t know if the organization is losing its identy or not, but it’s clearly getting some bad press for a pretty stupid title.
We use words because they mean things, they help us communicate, words are cool. However, words have a “design flaw”, first we have to collectively agree on what they mean and then we have to learn them by heart. Having a group of people unilaterally decide to “hijack” words and give them new meaning should get the phshback it deserves.
No, men cannot get pregnant. Transgender women can. Use that as a term, it was created especially to describe this part of the population.
Charlie Hebdo writing a whole ass article instead of drawing comics shows who else is also losing their identity.
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it is a good thing people is having less kids or none at all…the world is nuts
Gérard Biard on August 24, 2022
Do we have the right to laugh at everything, and especially at the latest Planned Parenthood poster, without being called a reactionary and transphobic scoundrel? Do we have the right to wonder about the relevance of his speech without being immediately sent to the fascistosphere? Let’s summarize the thing: we see a couple sitting on a sofa. But not just any couple. A trans man (a biological woman who has adopted a male gender identity), “racialized” for good measure, who is expecting a child, since biology is ultimately good, hand in hand with his/her spouse, a trans woman (a biological male who has adopted a female gender identity) who sports a stunning three-day beard. This is to explain to us that “men can also be pregnant” and that you shouldn’t believe everything you are told in Biology class. Why laugh and why wonder? you may ask. Because we find there the demonstration that a small drawing is not always better than a long militant speech. And because Family Planning, by dint of wanting to keep up with the times, is gradually losing the sense of its primary mission – and oh so essential – that of a secular and universalist feminist association committed to the fight for reproductive rights and equality between men and women.
“Decolonial” thought, “intersectionality”, “non-mixing”, the fight against “Islamophobia”, respect for “identities” and “cultures”, “modesty” in dress – hear: wearing the hijab – are now the keywords of Planning activists, to the point of, for some, refusing to take a stand against female circumcision, in the name of “everyone’s free choice”. Touched by the trendy grace of non-binarity, the association also transforms itself on occasion, as we can see with this campaign, into the mouthpiece of the most radical transactivism. And the most abstruse. They have also made available to their troops a “trans glossary” allowing them to navigate the jungle of gender-neutral terminology. They will know that “it is important to understand that a lesbian couple can, for example, consist of a cis woman and a trans woman, or that a gay man can have a vulva. It can also happen for example that a transmasculine person, although not defining herself as a woman, keeps her political identity as a dyke (reappropriation of the insult)”. Which can be very useful for reading this poster, because it is possible that, in this couple – who deserves to be helped like the others, but who must represent 0.000 001% of the cases that Planning is called upon to treat – the racialized trans man is a dyke, and the bearded trans woman is gay with a vulva. But if it is, tshe cispasses (do your best to find the definition). Why laugh about it? In your opinion?
They are right
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[removed]
Did that poster harm anyone? No.
Did that article harm anyone? Probably.
Based and absolutely correct. But I doubt a geniuine discussion about this can be had on Reddit since one side gets banned by the admins each time they voice their opinion
This is the most erudite and learned centrist dad, words are words, independent thinker take I have ever seen. I mean, It is bullshit and It stops being coherent 3/4 in, probably because the word limit was looming which is ironic considering his earlier point about needing time to explain things; but It is well thought and explained bullshit.
I completely agree that in our eagerness to release our LGTBQ+ brethren from all the horrors we have always set upon them, it’s easy to be overzealous, non-communicative and sometimes too eager. And Christ do some creative people need to stay away from campaigning.
But I do not agree that It is a)always bad b)worth stopping or even stalling the right of a wrong that is still happening as of today.
Which leads me to c) I don’t give two fucks what some butthurt conservative thinks about timing and messaging on this issue. I am currently reading Perlman’s Nixonland and the paralells are eerie regarding Civil Rights and the politickyeering the Republicans fell in when they had to choose between the right thing and power.
Any attenpt to wrap that up in some nice paper with ribbons with words like “freedom of speech” or “I identify as an attack helicopter” or “everybody has rights, wink wink” is primo 100% bullshit and oh boy is It telling when the first thing the writer does is soiling himself with his “I’m going to be called a transphobe for this but that is okay because I am right” from his high pedestal.
But again, brownie points for the nicely wrapped turd.
Gosh I dislike Charlie Hebdo so much. What’s both funny and sad is that they’ve “lost their identity” as well.
I find that poster offensive: it’s ableist.
The main idea of the article is that Planned Parenthood is losing its identy as a feminist association due to wokism.
I personally don’t know if the organization is losing its identy or not, but it’s clearly getting some bad press for a pretty stupid title.
We use words because they mean things, they help us communicate, words are cool. However, words have a “design flaw”, first we have to collectively agree on what they mean and then we have to learn them by heart. Having a group of people unilaterally decide to “hijack” words and give them new meaning should get the phshback it deserves.
No, men cannot get pregnant. Transgender women can. Use that as a term, it was created especially to describe this part of the population.
Charlie Hebdo writing a whole ass article instead of drawing comics shows who else is also losing their identity.