Posted on 12/21/2007 10:50:03 AM PST by jimluke01
Talk radio host Michael Savage doesn't mince words. He often says that "liberalism is a mental disorder." He's right. Liberal ideology and political correctness, infused with public policy, begets social insanity.
Case in point: A recent report on a popular homosexual "news" site declares, "A transgendered student says he is the victim of discrimination at a small Massachusetts community college because he is biologically female."
Say what? "He" is "female"? Welcome to PC-ville. Come for the oxymoron, stay for the cognitive dissonance.
In other news, "French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte says he is the victim of discrimination because he is biologically Bob from Detroit."
Apparently, this clearly confused 20-year-old woman who "presents as a male and wears male clothing" is upset that Northern Essex Community College in Haverhill, Massachusetts, will not allow her to undress, shower or otherwise cavort with the fellows in the men's locker room. She's reportedly filed an "affirmative action complaint" against the school.
Even Haverhill's local newspaper, the Eagle-Tribune, plays along, saying that she was "denied the use of the men's locker room ... because of his female anatomy."
"His female anatomy"!?
Okay, wait a minute. ... Is this one of those, "it depends on what the meaning of the word 'his' is" moments?
But it gets worse. The paper goes on to explain that this young woman er, man ... whatever actually identifies as a "gay male." It explains that her, "public unveiling as a transgender gay male happened as an adult two years ago. His designation means he has a female body, but identifies as a male and is sexually attracted to men."
Geeze-oh-Pete! My head hurts. Can this be for real? How can any newspaper that wants to be taken seriously report this with a straight face? A "gay" man trapped in a woman's body? And all this time I thought they were just straight gals in Dockers and flannel. When I was a kid we called them "tomboys." They were great fun to play softball with, but they still had to shower with the rest of the girls. What unenlightened bigots we were back then.
Look, I don't mean to single out this young woman. She very possibly suffers from Gender Identity Disorder (GID). Even the left-leaning American Psychiatric Association (APA) acknowledges this unfortunate illness. She's clearly very confused and needs therapy and prayer. I wish her nothing but the best.
But unfortunately, her story embodies everything that's wrong with liberalism and political correctness (well, maybe not everything). This girl is no more a man than Charlton Heston is Moses. And despite the fact that the left has never found a victim they don't like (except for Christians), she's not a victim of discrimination either.
She's a victim of reality.
But we're all victims of reality in one way or another. She wishes she were male. I wish I had a Harley. Howard Dean wishes he had decaf. Ted Kennedy wishes he had swerved. It doesn't make us "tolerant" or "compassionate" to pretend that people have something they don't or that they are something they're not. It makes us liars. It's enabling a delusion, and it's very, very silly.
Still, the real trouble begins when our government seeks by force of law to make all of us share in that delusion by enacting thought crimes edicts such as "hate crimes" legislation and the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA). As I've said before, it's "The Emperor's New Clothes" meets George Orwell.
Homosexual activist legislation forces everyone to entertain the delusions of a very small percentage of the population who define themselves based upon aberrant and mutable sexual behaviors. These laws lend official government recognition to conduct that every major world religion, thousands of years of history and uncompromising human biology have deemed both immoral and unnatural.
As for this locker room nonsense: What about the rights of the actual men who might prefer to shower and dress without a female present? Yes, despite the left's assertions otherwise, modesty is still a virtue.
These men have a reasonable expectation of privacy. This young woman has admitted that she's sexually attracted to men (not that it would matter if she wasn't). If the school were to allow her in the men's locker room, it would be facilitating sexual harassment.
Why should these fellows be placed in such an embarrassing and compromising position just so this troubled young lady might enjoy some preposterous special "right" to pretend she's one of the boys? That's called tyranny of the minority, and it is, in fact, discrimination.
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Matt Barber (jmattbarber@comcast.net) is one of the like-minded men with Concerned Women for America. He is an attorney concentrating in constitutional law, and serves as CWA's Policy Director for Cultural Issues.
“He’s right. Liberal ideology and political correctness, infused with public policy, begets social insanity.”
I used to lean toward the conclusion that liberalism was just incredibly idiocratic, but since 9/11 I’ve become conviced that there’s is something fundamentally wrong in the liberal mind. Liberals have always characterized Chrisianity as something ‘scarey’ that truly frightened them, regardless of how benignly the message of Christ was presented. I wrote this off as intellectual hysteria. Then 9/11 happened, and religious Islamic exremists senselessy murdered nearly 3,000 innocent people. However, I’ve still yet to hear liberals refer to Islam as ‘scarey’. Instead, they bow and humble themselves before Islam, talk about ‘sensitivity’ and embracing suicidal murderers in the spirit of ‘diversity’. They invite Islam to do things and into places where Christianity would not be tolerated for an instant. This is clearly a totally irrational response to fear and hysteria. It’s clear they don’t fear Christianity, or they would kowtow to it as they do to Islam. And they have not the slightest insight as to how fear and destructive emotionalism dictates what they consider to be reason and logic. If nothing else, they are emotionally retarded.
ARRRRRRGHHHHHHH - Let the nightmares negin
I ama registered Republican...but with some strong libertarian sentiments. OK conservative on abortion LIB on internet regulation (even smut) LIB on the drug war (not working) should de-criminalize, not necessarily legalize So-SO on gay marriage, civil union ok but it should not be done by the courts, More LIB on foreign policy build up our intelligence capability and do less sending troops all over the place and solving nothing (Once we leave, Iraq is going to be a worse sh*t hole than it was under Saddam) Much less regulation and much less pork spending TERM LIMITS FOR EVERYBODY
Is it true that when trannies are missing, their pics are put on cartons of half-and-half?
I hear there is a support group for your kind . . .
I have to come out.
I am a gay man trapped in a woman’s body. My partner is a male lesbian.
We plan on letting our 9 kids know at the next family get-together.
There once was a queer from Rangoon:
Took a lesbian up to his room.
They dicked all night
As to who had the right
To do what, and with which, and to whom.
This can’t be for real. It’s far too ridiculous, even by today’s standards.
My Daughter graduated from Northern Essex CC, the place is a liberal, socialist, hell hole. It took us years to get the GD place to accept the Moving Wall and fly the POW-MIA flag, thanks to the Rat Pres, Dukaka appointee.
Help me,
I am being persecuted as an age-challenged troll who is really a princess from a far away land. If you send me $1,000 I can get access to my inheritance and I will share with you.
My inheritance will pay for the potions I need to remove the evil spell put on me by the evil King George. (Photo enclosed).
Signed,
Helen Thomas
We need a photo to judge the legal merits her case.
Never heard of this author, but he’s a real card “what the meaning of ‘his’ is.” LOL.
I am with him. If someone was born a male, they are still a male even if they’ve had a lopitofomy. If someone was born a female, they are still a female even if they’ve had an addadictomy. I’m not in the habit of indulging mental illnesses by calling a male a “she” or a female a “he.” Unless they actually lopped off his Y-chromosome, a man’s a man.
Well, you wouldn't expect Christians to have anything to do with them, would you? < /sarcasm>
There once was a lez from Nantuckett...oh, never mind.
Your supervisor IS a queen, and the queen always goes first.
We could introduce her to the hermit named Dave.
This is no shocker, because anyone going to NECCO is, by definition, not too bright in the first place. So it totally follows that this person doesn’t know his or her sex simply by checking down the front of his or her pants.
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