Posted on 06/24/2014 8:16:23 AM PDT by Lazamataz
As a very young man, your humble author thought to experiment around with psychedelic drugs. The utter lack of connection to reality was very profound, and very scary. However, when the drugs wore off, reality returned.
These days, American reality is so bizarre as to be similar to the psychedelic unreality experienced so many decades ago. In many ways, it is very similar to Alice in Wonderland, and her journey down the rabbit hole. "Curiouser and curiouser," we observe, as America spirals into a state of being in full flight from reality.
The example I am focusing on, today, is the utterly bizarre decision of Facebook to change the gender self-identification from the choices of male, female, or other (which is a little odd, itself) to FIFTY-ONE, count them, FIFTY-ONE gender choices. The list includes: Agender, Androgyne, Androgynous, Bigender, Cis, Cisgender, Cis Female, Cis Male, Cis Man, Cis Woman, Cisgender Female, Cisgender Male, Cisgender Man, Cisgender Woman, Female to Male, FTM, Gender Fluid, Gender Nonconforming, Gender Questioning, Gender Variant, Genderqueer, Intersex, Male to Female, MTF, Neither, Neutrois, Non-binary, Other, Pangender, Trans, Trans*, Trans Female, Trans* Female, Trans Male, Trans* Male, Trans Man, Trans* Man, Trans Person, Trans* Person, Trans Woman, Trans* Woman, Transfeminine. Transgender, Transgender Female, Transgender Male, Transgender Man, Transgender Person, Transgender Woman, Transmasculine, Transsexual, Transsexual Female, Transsexual Male, Transsexual Man, Transsexual Person, Transsexual Woman, and Two-Spirit.
This is insane. There are more flavors of gender, according to Facebook, then there are flavors of ice cream at Baskin-Robbins. To my mind, there should be exactly three gender options:
America is alone in the world with this new, strange, 1960's-Radical-driven divorce with reality. The world must look at us in a semi-stunned disbelieving awe, questioning to themselves: "How did our rich uncle lost his mind?"
I feel that the best way to demonstrate to an insane person (or in our case, culture) that they are insane, is to dive deeper into their insanity and one-up them. In that vein, I offer Facebook a new gender label, that of Quantum Gender with Nanosecond Variability. I will define Quantum Gender with Nanosecond Variability thus:
A person is neither male, nor female, but is in a quantum 'probability state' of maleness or femaleness, until the gender is actually observed. At that time the quantum field collapses into a true gender of male or female. However, the quantum field state returns every nanosecond, so one can never quite be sure of the gender from nanosecond to nanosecond. Be aware that -- like Schrodinger's Cat -- the act of observing the person's gender influences the outcome of their gender.
My gender is hereby declared to be 'Quantum Gender with Nanosecond Variability', and if Facebook does not recognize me, they are discriminating against me. OFF MY BACK, OPPRESSOR!
There is no such thing as gender outside of languages.
This gender drama is a construct. Not real.
There are two sexes and different ways people choose to express them.
Mongo read, Mongo not understand.
Mongo think fags bad.
Mongo only pawn in game of life.
He’s back!
We will have to invent new equations and math symbols for this.
I cannot begin to tell you the frustration I encountered when I told a trans that there were only two sexes and everything else is a construct and I don’t buy the constructs.
Magnum!
I am now going to try that! Will you let us know when they add it to the stew? :)
PS...this is what I got as a popup when I actually tried to add it to the “custom” setting...
>>>>You must select one or more custom genders in order to save.<<<<
So...there ya are.
I could imagine myself as Frank Regan for a day...No, skip that.
I want a week. ..
I’d take my badass son and Father around Manhattan and clean the place up.
Probably start with those crap for brains cab drivers, then start giving hickory stick shampoos above 101st.
After we cleaned the place up I’d ply Bebe Neuwirth with my charm and a few drinks as we over looked Central Park from my suite at Trump International. Love that place and Jon George, one of the bestest restaurants is downstairs.
They could deliver our breakfast.....
haha! i just love that guy!
yes! and his current role on Blue Bloods, "Commissioner Frances "Frank" Reagan... heck, even his role on Friends, Monica's boyfriend Richard... he is spectacular...
ROTFLMAO!
Kant believe you wrote all that....
Too funny...
Mongo get no more beans...
The last feeble spark from the panel and his reaction to it.
I’ve done that too.
that's what i'm talkin' 'bout!
I didn’t write all that! But it is funny.
Damned straight skippy.
Wish I had seen what you wrote that got you put in time out.
Was probably classic and timeless truth.
After beaning those idiot cabbies I’d stop at Eli’s Bread Factory for my coffee and the best scrambled eggs whites (ABC Carpet is second, but at that point I’m headed past uptown) and then start Punking the punks above 101st.
Yeah, that’s the ticket...
>>Do your articles ever discuss ugly women and which ones you would hit? I think that would be a popular topic.<<
How popular could the word “all” be? Not much discussion there...
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